Andrew C. Oliver
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Savannah, GA, United States
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Should you leave Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for the fediverse?
Tired of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Skeptical of the metaverse? The non-profit, distributed, community-oriented fediverse might be for you. → Read More
How to Ensure Your Serverless Database Stays Serverless
What to keep in mind as one moves away from the more traditional RDBMS into a serverless approach to overcome state struggles. → Read More
Beyond NoSQL: The case for distributed SQL
What if the main problem with relational databases was the back end and not the front end? → Read More
SQL Is Dead, Right? –
In 2020, SQL begins to think about its near half-century reign. It is a solid, relatively easy to use (and certainly, very familiar), reliable solution that just gets the job done.As the armies of analysts and database developers who know and love it will attest, SQL has been a groundbreaker in its field. → Read More
The best open source software for cloud computing
InfoWorld’s 2018 Best of Open Source Software Award winners in cloud computing → Read More
The best open source software for data storage and analytics
InfoWorld’s 2018 Best of Open Source Software Award winners in databases and data analytics → Read More
How developers can get the ops team on their side
It shouldn’t be dev vs. ops. Instead, consider the ops team as one of your customers, and make software that it can use → Read More
How to present to management: A guide for developers and engineers
Presenting to management is about realizing that you have a busy audience that wants to know the impact, cost, and risk of the plan → Read More
How to write better: A developer’s guide
Developers who can write impactfully tend to advance faster in their careers than those who merely code → Read More
How to test developer, data science, and devops job candidates
Even if they can show you code on GitHub, you want your finalists to do a trial project as a real, objective test. Here are the test projects you should use → Read More
5 reasons why your code is running so slowly—and how to fix it
Here’s how to address why the code runs well on your development machine but has totally borked in production → Read More
Virtual assistants don’t need developers or AI
Virtual assistants could do so much more for enterprises, if only we’d realize they are essentially command-line interfaces that don’t require custom coding or AI tech to work → Read More
8 career pitfalls every developer should avoid
If you love to code, and don’t think much about your career or your business, it’s time to get real and rethink how you approach software development → Read More
How to find a developer job after coding bootcamp
If you want a real developer job, a coding bootcamp won’t get you in the door. But if you add some real experience, you’ve got a shot. Here’s how to get that experience → Read More
How to use the Google Vision API
Happy or sad? Cat or person? Use the Google API to detect details about images → Read More
7 books you must read to be a real software developer
It’s easy to learn to be a coder. But knowing how to code isn’t enough to get and keep a real job in software development → Read More
11 signs you’re writing great code
No matter what language or technology stack you use, if you can describe your code with these adjectives, good code should follow → Read More
How to get started with AI—before it’s too late
Put these five prerequisites in place so you can actually execute on your artificial intelligence strategy → Read More
Sensors and machine learning: How applications can see, hear, feel, smell, and taste
All five senses take the form of some kind of sensor and some kind of mathematical algorithm, usually a supervised machine learning algorithm and a model → Read More
Which programming languages you should learn now
if you're in the market for a new lingua franca, what you choose next might be influenced by your current language of choice → Read More