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Program Organization (with Examples in C)

Introduction In my book Why Learn C , Chapter 13, Program Organization , I wrote in part: For all but the most trivial programs, a typical C program is composed of several source ( .c ) files and…

  • Tidy is a mid-sized C program, approximately three times larger than ad
  • Tidy demonstrates effective organization of source files to maintain and understand larger programs

LocalStack vs Spinifex: the Right Tool for Dev, the Right Tool for Production

LocalStack versus Spinifex comes up often enough to address directly. They don't compete because they solve different problems at different points in the software lifecycle.

  • LocalStack is an AWS emulator running locally in a Docker container
  • Spinifex implements AWS API on real bare metal hardware
  • LocalStack's emulation is not perfect and state is ephemeral

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