Author: mcherm
An email I received from an Amazon recruiter
Hi Michael,
I recruit for a multitude of software development engineers for Amazon Services which is frequently mentioned by Jeff Bezos as one of our key strategic growth opportunities for the company, which gives you the opportunity to dive deep, think big …
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Posted Sat 05 August 2017
by mcherm
in Programming
REST Lambda Versioning
So, we want to build a "serverless" application on AWS. We have configured Amazon's "API
Gateway" to invoke Lambda functions when accessing certain URLs, and the lambda
functions access back-ends like DynamoDB. So far so good. But we don't want to be
breaking the application every time …
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Posted Sun 02 July 2017
by mcherm
in Programming
Michael Chermside's Election Guide
to the May 2017 Democratic Primary
As I sometimes do, now that I have finished doing my own research on the candidates
and the issues, I will write down my thoughts to endorse the candidates and to share
the results of my research. In this case …
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Posted Sun 14 May 2017
by mcherm
in Politics
Long-Running Calls
Question: When building RESTful APIs, do you know of any
standard patterns for handling long running API calls? Our decision
process may take as much as a couple of minutes.
My Answer: I know of four possible approaches:
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Long-running API call: In this approach, you just build an …
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Posted Thu 20 April 2017
by mcherm
in Programming
COBOL in a Bank
Question: I hearing about COBOL being used in banks quite often
but all my friends who actually working there say Java and Oracle and
all related job adverts I have seen so far were Java or C++. Could
someone please provide some relevant facts?
My Answer …
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Posted Mon 30 January 2017
by mcherm
in Programming