Essays and notes by Kevin P. Brown.https://kpbrown.com/https://kpbrown.com/writings/stories-and-points-arent-real/https://kpbrown.com/writings/stories-and-points-arent-real/Don't let arbitrary metrics dictate your engineering. Learn why prioritizing real-world goals over abstractions leads to better software and motivated teams.Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://kpbrown.com/writings/migrating-spring-boot-to-vertx/https://kpbrown.com/writings/migrating-spring-boot-to-vertx/A practical example of the gains and pitfalls in migrating existing Spring Boot logic to Vert.x.Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://kpbrown.com/writings/simulating-events-with-simpy/https://kpbrown.com/writings/simulating-events-with-simpy/We walk through the development of a complete model from the events industry, and show three different ways to visualize the results (including AR/VR).Thu, 10 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://kpbrown.com/writings/fraud-classification-corporate-program/https://kpbrown.com/writings/fraud-classification-corporate-program/How domain knowledge with introductory statistics can be used to detect and identify fraudulent activity in an online corporate retail program.Fri, 21 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://kpbrown.com/writings/non-technical-systems/https://kpbrown.com/writings/non-technical-systems/A look at how John Gall's 1975 Systemantics still applies to software today.Thu, 16 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT