Is Apache Spark as significant as the big data vendors are making out? Or is it just all marketing and brand? What is all the fuss about?

No, this isn’t the next instalment in the ‘Indian Jones’ movie franchise! In this post, I want to look at how org charts embody much of the fundamental problems with the way we think about companies and software development.

Everyone who has ever done any software development in the Enterprise knows that statically typed programming languages are clearly better than dynamically typed languages. It’s just something we know. Except that, when you look into it, we have pretty much nothing to base that assertion on.

Earlier this year I decided to learn Clojure. It’s been a really interesting experience. Along the way I’ve stumbled, by complete accident, on development tools that could completely redefine the speed at which I cut apps.