Alesia Krush

ObjectStyle has a portfolio of open-source products: Apache Cayenne, Bootique, Agrest, and DFLib. This post tells the story behind each of these projects.

• eHealth

What’s happening today in the pandemic-stricken world reminds one of Isaac Asimov’s book The Naked Sun. In the novel, the Solarian people communicate through holograms, avoid all physical contact, and have all their chores performed by robots.

• eHealth

In the past few months, telemedical services have been exploding to the point that they struggle to onboard new customers. Once the COVID-19 is over, will telehealth get pushed to the fringes of healthcare, or become the new normal?

• enterprise

In the ideal world, high-load systems should be able to survive – and quickly recover from – sudden traffic spikes, server outages, and interruptions to Internet connectivity. How do you know if they will? This is what "chaos engineering" is for.

Radical Candor is a book, a framework, and a consultancy by Kim Scott, an ex-Google and ex-Apple employee. The experiences she had while working at Silicon Valley inspired Scott to explore the management aspect of the software engineering industry.

While some of the trends remain from last year, let’s see what is gaining popularity/traction as this year comes to a close and the year 2020 emerges on the horizon.