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This is a special guest episode from my friend Sam Bail, the creator and maintainer of Tech Aloud's sister podcast, Blog Cast. Add Blog Cast to your subscriptions in your favourite podcast player for more interesting …

This is a reading of one of the SAP Community posts in the Monday morning thoughts series from 2018. In it, I think about OData, in particular where …

This episode, recorded on Monday 12th October 2020, features a section from the paper "The UNIX Time-sharing System - A Retrospective", written by Dennis M Ritchie, at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey. A version of …

Source: https://blogs.sap.com/2019/11/06/cap-is-important-because-its-not-important/

Source: https://will.koffel.org/post/2014/12-factor-apps-in-plain-english/

I came across this recently and thought it was a decent summary of the …

Source: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~aho/Talks/12-09-07_DMR.pdf (via HN)

A tribute to the late Dennis Ritchie delivered at Dennis Ritchie Day at Bell …

Source: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

This is a classic, and is worth remembering. I referred to it in one of my Monday Morning Thoughts posts (a cloud native smell) and, while some of what is referenced feels …

Source: https://www.loxodrome.io/post/thinking-critically-about-code-quality/

A short but interesting meditation on code quality and de facto truths about good and bad code.

Source: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/WhatsTheDifferenceBetweenAConsoleATerminalAndAShell.aspx

As some folks know, I am a big fan of the command …

Source: https://blogs.sap.com/2019/09/30/which-workflow/

This is a quick overview of the possible workflow solutions, with a decent focus on SAP …

Source: https://blogs.sap.com/2018/09/03/monday-morning-thoughts-considering-graphql/

I chose this Monday Morning Thoughts post because I've noticed some interest again in GraphQL, and wanted to revisit what I'd written …

Source: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/
This post is 17 years old, but still totally relevant today in what …

Source: https://cap.cloud.sap/docs/about/

The SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) is an important set of tools for the new world of …

Source: https://www.binpress.com/vim-creator-bram-moolenaar-interview/

The Q&A with Bram is interesting in that for such a widely used editor, …

Source: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

Source: https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/reviewer/looking-for.html 

Source: https://www.artima.com/intv/simplest.html

Source: https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/DslQandA.html

Source: https://www.martinfowler.com/dsl.html

Source: https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/reviewer/standard.html

Source: https://blogs.sap.com/2019/08/20/its-steampunk-now/

A welcome and introduction to what this podcast is about - tech articles and blog posts, read out loud, basically. A podcast I've wanted myself, so, while on the go, I can listen to articles that I might otherwise …