Code Red: Database Surrogate Needed
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I’ve seen the problem crop up over and over as I walk the earth and train IT professionals. A high visibility project begins to slip behind schedule, all because our…
Reading the Code
Throughout my career, there have been fierce debates about style and formatting when it comes to writing code. Great holy wars were waged in support of 3-space tabs rather than…
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. Although filter() and joinBy() and splitBy()…
Just the Good Bits
Sometimes you find a use case that has a simple and elegant solution in a particular programming language. It might come from a question in conversation, or a requirement in…
Everyone’s New Best Friend
Everywhere I go, people are talking about OpenAI ChatGPT. They don’t evangelize, they just mention it with a wink and a smile. Of COURSE you know all about this charming…
Spin Up Sample Data with DataWeave
Hopefully you don’t commonly face this problem on your development team, but I see it often enough in the field that I know some folks could use a handy answer.…
Bring Me the Severed Head of My Data
A while back, I wrote this article suggesting an approach to generating sample data with a simple DataWeave function. I left the conversation open ended to offer time for readers…
DataWeave: Merge Objects From Different Sources
About the Merge A common use case for DataWeave developers is that of merging elements from two different object collections into a set of composite output records. There are several…
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…
Whaddya Mean, Big Data?
It’s been going on for a while now. We hear the term “Big Data” used repeatedly and often in contexts that suggest various meanings. To some people, it seems to…