Monday, March 21, 2022

Some Shifts

It's taken some time to work this out for myself, but since I began teaching for MuleSoft, I haven't really been sure what to write here. Compounded by that, I write a fair amount for my proper job. Nonetheless, I have my thoughts about technology at large,  and sometimes I want to work out some of my thoughts here before I take them back and deliver them polished at work.


So when I drop a deep weeds tech article here, I will make it clear with some hashtags and a warning above the fold. That way, you can punch through if it seems interesting, and scroll by when it's not.

(Of course, everything I publish here is fascinating, but you may want to look into it at another time, right?) 

Because a lot of what I discuss at work is for developers who work mostly with Enterprise data systems, the technology talks may get pretty gritty, especially if I bring in voices from among the many brilliant colleagues who help me understand what I'm doing.

So check the page labels and watch for fair warning before the first break.

Reduce to Dashboard

When developers use DataWeave, they often come to rely on the reduce() function to fill in any gaps left by the standard Core library. Altho...