Journey to Ronoco

As another year winds down, I figured it was time to describe my latest venture and undertaking as the Chief Technology Officer of Ronoco. Journey to Ronoco Ronoco focuses on technology for the insurance industry.  Unlike most of the “value adds” I’ve seen out there, Ronoco is not another fancy chat bot to try to […]

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Distributed Agile Development with a Global Team

Businesses need distributed Agile Development to offer a first class service with 24×7 support. There are strategic benefits in the Agile software development life-cycle (SDLC) outside of cost benefits to this approach. Distributed Agile Teams Most teams that try to do Agile Development end up with a Frankenstein process that keeps the spirit but lacks execution.  The […]

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Jolt – How to Augment JSON APIs By Using Transformations

I was recently introduced to a new library called Jolt (https://github.com/bazaarvoice/jolt).  Jolt performs JSON transformations which allows a developer to convert from one JSON structure to another JSON structure using a transformation mapping (created using JSON) and not having to write code.  This is pretty amazing for Java applications as it avoids having to call […]

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