In the age of AI, disagreement is a feature One reason I love my job is that my co-workers have no problem disagreeing with me. That may sound odd coming from a CTO. After all, shouldn’t leadership have authority when choosing direction, making decisive calls, and defining vision? Sure, but the best visions are forged … Continued
Like many of you, our engineering teams are navigating a challenging squeeze: tighter budgets, 10×-level performance mandates, and increasing expectations of AI-enhanced productivity. We’re exploring every possibility; augmenting workflows with GitHub Copilot, test generation tools, and using (limited) automated code reviews in efforts to make good on the acceleration hype. AI isn’t magic We are … Continued
Recently we were presented with a greenfield project from a client with an interesting blend of performance requirements and desired architecture pattern. Our client wanted a highly available, autoscaling microservice with excellent performance across North America, delivered using serverless technologies in the AWS cloud. The solution that we developed for this project is something we … Continued
In a given calendar year, our staff can be working in a LOT of different development environments. While Axian as a whole tends to focus on Node.js, Java and .NET runtimes/toolchains, we are also often found working with systems that comprise everything from Python, to Golang, Ruby and beyond! Needless to say this can create … Continued
What is Ignite TAO V8? Each year, for the past 8 years, the Technology Association of Oregon has hosted a fast-paced evening of folks speaking to Technology topics in rapid fire. The event takes place in front of a couple hundred of your colleagues. How rapid you ask? Well, the format provides each speaker with … Continued
At 30, I’ve spent more of my life as a student than as a “real person”. After a 9 year break from academia, I decided it was time to try being both, enrolling in a Graphic Design course at Portland Community College this spring. While I don’t foresee myself breaking out the T-square in my … Continued
The Scenario So I was working away on an EF6 / WebAPI / AngularJS project when I ran into an odd issue. I had secured my WebAPI using OAuth and required that the user provide a bearer token on every request. The strategy / workflow worked like this: 1. User browses to https://myproject.domain.net/login 2. Angular’s … Continued
Recently I was engaged in an AngularJS project that spent a little time switching between views. Okay, well the term “a little” is pretty subjective. As we all know, the more thumb-twiddling a user does while waiting for a response from a server, the less likely they are to use your app, or at the … Continued
My last post took you though setting up boot2docker on your system and provided a quick cheat sheet on how to configure and interact with it. In this post I will be laying out a running list of the commands I use with docker to get the most out of my containers. What is Docker? (From docker.com) Docker allows … Continued
Here’s an Entity Framework scenario for you: You’re using Entity Framework 6. Check. You’re using a custom database initializer to init your DEV and TEST databases. Specifically the DropCreateDatabaseAlways initializer. Yup, that’s me. Your project contains 1 or more Unit Test projects that utilize the above. Do you have a unit test project? Say yes. … Continued
