• Vote Against Trump, Again - I try not to write much about electoral politics, but just as I did four years ago, I think it's important to vote against Mr Trump. While we haven't descended as far into authoritarianism as the worst-case fears, we have taken some significant steps. We must repudiate those steps, and defeat further ones, by voting against Mr Trump and his enablers. more… [Martin Fowler]

Permalink | From 28 September 2020 to 04 October 2020 | Last updated on: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 09:12:01 GMT

• Domain model purity and the current time - I’m continuing the topic of domain model purity. This time, we’ll look at it with regards to getting the current date and time. By the way, be sure to subscribe to my email list. Not all discussions fit the format of a blog post (including some shorter takes on the topic of domain model purity vs completeness). I send those out as emails instead. [Enterprise Craftsmanship]
• Don't Compare Averages - In business meetings, it's common to compare groups of numbers by comparing their averages. But doing so often hides important information in the distribution of the numbers in those groups. There are a number of data visualizations that shine a light on this information. These include strip charts, histograms, density plots, box plots, and violin plots. These are easy to produce with freely available software, working on groups as small as a dozen, or as large as thousands. more… [Martin Fowler]

Permalink | From 21 September 2020 to 27 September 2020 | Last updated on: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 09:12:01 GMT

• Build B2B applications using our multi-tenancy support - In order to build business-to-business applications where the application serves many customers, it is common to build a multi-tenant system. This means that multiple customers share the use of the same system instance, but their data is separated at the storage level. [Serialized development blog]

Permalink | From 14 September 2020 to 20 September 2020 | Last updated on: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 09:09:29 GMT