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I’m sure you’re well aware how the null value is responsible for loads of extra, uninspiring code, and tons and tons of exceptions and crashes. Tony Hoare came up with this “innovation” in 1965. He later apologized for what he calls a billion dollar mistake. Here’s an... [Read More]

Isn’t it ironic how, when we think of microservices, we also tend to think about REST services? A microservices architecture is about autonomous services, in other words, services that are able to do their job without relying on help from other services. Earlier this month I wrote about service... [Read More]

[Illustration from simpleprogrammer.com] Do you use Dependency Injection? Of course you do, you’re a responsible programmer, and you care about clean, maintainable, SOLID code with low coupling. You know perfectly well that New is Glue, and you understand the value of programming to interfaces, not implementations.... [Read More]

OpenID Connect and OAuth2 are great solutions for secure authentication in web apps and mobile apps, and for securely allowing an app to access a backend service on behalf of the user. But they aren’t all that fun to work with when you need the user identity to... [Read More]