The Repository Pattern
A recurring theme on the 8th Light blog is decoupling your applications from the implementation of details. A detail can be anything from UI elements...more.
Architecture
Servers in Source Control
8th Light has accumulated a lot of servers, the cloud kind, over the years. Each one configured by the team that was building our internally...more.
Implementing and Testing the Singleton Pattern in Ruby
What is a Singleton Object?
The GoF identifies a singleton as a way to "ensure a class only has one instance, and provide a...more.
Owning Your Dependencies
Dependencies are nearly unavoidable for non-trivial software projects. These can be large dependencies, such as web frameworks and databases, or smaller decisions, such as...more.
Explicit Collections
Don't extract that method yet!
In programming, we tend to work with collections of objects quite often. For example, we may need to check to...more.
The Clean Architecture
Over the last several years we’ve seen a whole range of ideas regarding the architecture of systems. These include:
Thinking Differently About the Single Responsibility Principle
When the Single Responsibility Principle is taught among developers, one aspect - the responsibility - is harped on the most. But what counts as a...more.
NO DB
In the United States, in 1920, the manufacture, sale, and importation of alcoholic beverages was prohibited by a constitutional amendment. That amendment was repealed thirteen...more.
Service Oriented Agony
I sat down with a group of developers today to do a retrospective on a project. They told me that project management has been complaining...more.
Clean Architecture
In the weeks since I started talking about the need to clean up our architecture, I’ve noticed a surprising resistance to the idea. Apparently the...more.
Screaming Architecture
Imagine that you are looking at the blueprints of a building. This document, prepared by an architect, tells you the plans for the building. What...more.