I managed to make it out to the Erlang hack night that Kevin Smith had out at Carrboro Creative Coworking recently.  It was a lot of fun.  Kevin rehashed his talk on Erlang that he had also recently given to the Raleigh Ruby Brigade.  As a reminder to him, he needs to fix the slides […]

Neal Ford has a recent post called Sidekick Oriented Architecture.  I recommend reading it for the stories he tells, but the point he makes is a good one: Service Oriented Architecture is only achievable through message passing. It’s a simple concept that makes sense when it is articulated, but unless you consciously think about it […]

Today’s title is a play off of Stuart Halloway’s current series of blog posts titled Java.next.  Stuart is focusing his series on the set of languages that run on the JVM and are looking to replace (or if not replace, then gain dominance alongside) Java. In the third part of the series, Dispatch, Stuart writes […]