Wilcox Development Solutions Blog

A few days of vacation for me usually means a time to relax, recharge a bit, do things with the family, catch up on TODO items, and play…

Introduction We’re all familiar with the idea of technical debt in software, where the velocity of development is hampered by code not being…

Introduction In my previous blog article I said: This is the topic of a future blog post: roads and feature capacity of microservice herds…

Herds of microservices, flocks of people, and those that take care of them I’ve been in big enterprises, as a day job, for almost 6 years…

The Problem In 2020 I realized I had a problem. I was in four different OSes: Windows, Linux, iOS and some Mac OS X. This wasn’t so much a…

I finally did it: I moved this blog to Gatsby This blog has made its second transition: first, from MovableType to Wordpress, then from…

Introduction Containers give us a way to package software and ensure that the software etc we expect installed is, in, fact, installed. We…

I’ve been working with Jenkins quite a bit lately. When I set up a system I want it to be as reproducable as possible: you can never trust…

Introduction I’ve been playing with Gatsby.js. Gatsby is a static site render that uses React and GraphQL to make neat sites that a modern…

For early stage experiments I like deploying to Heroku. Heroku’s free model will spin down servers that haven’t gotten traffic in a while…