We Can Do Better Than SQL

Simple SQL statements can read almost like English. With just a bit of complexity (e.g. more than one join) they quickly can become almost impossible to dicern. In this post Elvis Pranskevichus critiques SQL’s shortcomings compellingly. He then introduces EdgeQL, a query language designed to fix SQLs shortcomings. This is the first time I’ve heard of it or EdgeDB.

Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?

With his traditional knack for analysis and synthesis, Martin Fowler describes how the familiar trade-off of quality and cost that is intuitive in the physical world doesn’t quite hold for software. Software projects are constantly evolving, requirements changing. Internal quality determines that speed at which features can be delivered. Disregarding internal quality leads to software projects where it becomes almost impossible to continue making changes. I can’t recommend this article enough.