Author: Eric Goebelbecker
Eric Goebelbecker has worked in the financial markets in New York City for 25 years, developing infrastructure for market data and financial information exchange (FIX) protocol networks. He loves to talk about what makes teams effective (or not so effective!)
Service Oriented Architecture: A Dead Simple Explanation
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been with us for a long time. The term first appeared in 1998, and since then it’s grown in popularity. It’s also branched into several variants,...
REST vs. RESTful: The Difference and Why the Difference Doesn’t Matter
REST API is one of the most popular APIs in the web development community. What’s the difference between a REST API and a RESTful one? Is there a difference? This...
Coupling in Programming: What This Means and How Not to Get Burned
What is coupling in programming? Is it something we want to avoid when we design and write code? If so, why? And more importantly, how? Let’s take a look at...
Mentoring Software Developers as an Architect
A while back we discussed the unique career path architects have to travel. We wrote that article for developers who want to advance their careers and aren’t sure which way...
How to Measure Lines of Code? Let’s Count the Ways
There are a few ways to count lines of code, and they each have their advantages and disadvantages. Much of the differences come down to defining what a “line” is....