PCF stands for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry is an open source Platform as a Service technology. It was originally created at VMWare and open-sourced. Pivotal (which now once again is part of VMWare) has its own Cloud Foundry offering. It takes the original Cloud Foundry open source project and combines it with other tools …
The Intellectual Accountability Myth
Radiohead's "My Iron Lung" starts off with a short guitar intro and then the bass and drums kick in. The groove is incredibly tight with the bass and drums completely locked in and the bass lays down the foundation of the harmony underpinning the guitar lines. This is exactly the role of the bass in …
Easy Boarding with Kotlin and PCF
In my last post, we built a simple microservice and got quick and easy lift off to the cloud with the combination of Kotlin, Spring Cloud and PCF. This is great but there's no point taking off and not carrying any passengers. Thankfully, with PCF auto-reconfiguration, there's no more queues in the departure lounge. So, …
Easy lift off with Kotlin and PCF
For me, Kotlin, Spring Boot/Cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) share a key thing in common - they make it so easy to get ideas into working, robust software as quickly as possible. PCF, like Spring Boot, takes an opinionated approach that looks after a lot of the heavy lifting required to get a suite …
Persist the List
A few years ago now, I developed a bit of a thing for functional programming. I explored a few different functional programming languages including Clojure, Haskell, Scala and F#. I've used Scala professionally and continue to do so to some extent in my current role. I also went full on into F# for 18 months …
Closures For OO Developers – 2 – FP in an OO Language
Reading Time 5 to 10 minutes In a previous blog post Closures For OO Developers – 1, I described how I initially thought about closures when I came to Functional Programming. I related an inner closure having access to the environment of the outer closure that created it as being conceptually similar to an inner …
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Closures For OO Developers – 1
This is the first in a series of posts that I'm writing about the concept of Closures in Functional Programming (FP for short) and how I related this concept to OO when I first came to FP and how my thinking on the concept has become more "Functional" over time. When I started making the …
