Lyndon Codes
Welcome to Lyndon Armitage's Blog.
I mostly write about programming and technology related subjects, for more
information on me see my about page.
Any posts contained are my own opinions and
musings and are not representative of my employer.
04 Mar 2024
As programmers we’re often taught to take certain things for granted, when it
comes to performance. Likewise, we often throw around the Sir Tony Hoare quote,
made famous by Donald Knuth: “Premature optimisation is the root of all evil.”
But what is premature optimisation?
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29 Feb 2024
This is a quick tip from a blunder I made when writing some Scala code using
the AWS S3 object listing
API.
Hopefully it will save someone else from making the same mistake and show how
important it is to have good tests, a clear API and the literacy skills to read
it.
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31 Jan 2024
Before Christmas 2023 we ran into an issue with one of our simpler data ingests
at work. An AWS Lambda, written in
Python that queried an API, transformed the results,
and landed them in Amazon S3 as
JSON (gzipped JSON Lines
files to be specific), started to fail.
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13 Dec 2023
So it’s two weeks into 2023’s Advent of Code and I
have a confession to make. I’ve been using it to learn
Rust.
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01 Dec 2023
It’s that time of year again. Time to commit to participating in AdventOfCode
2023 only to not finish it. In seriousness, I’ve
tried to finish for a few years but always find other commitments get in the
way. Nevertheless, I am going to be doing Advent of Code 2023!
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