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It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. –Socrates I set a goal for myself to become fit. Specifically, my primary goal is to reach a healthy weight. My secondary goal is to gain strength. To make the habits of diet […]

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In Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems, Sam Newman writes: The architecture of a real-world running system is never clean or pristine. If you want a “clean” architecture, by all means laminate a printout of an idealized version of the system architecture you might have had, if only you had perfect foresight and limitless funds. Real […]

In an effort to develop and maintain skills, I read the following book over the last four quarters: Kleppmann, Martin. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems Designing Data-Intensive Applications introduces concepts underlying database systems and leads readers through the general implementation of complex distributed systems. As is typical for […]

Prioritize the attainable over that which is merely possible. After all, as a famous proverb states, one in the hand is worth more than two in the bush.