Recently, I was asked to give my input on a RfI (request for information) from a company considering to buy software products off the shelf. They had already divided the functionality they want to see covered into subdomains, and realized that they probably had to buy a number of products…
“There’s this little thing that we would like to see automated” — how often haven’t you heard this, knowing that it’s not going to be a little thing at all? Or maybe you’ve said it yourself, even though you know better? Why is it that simple things never stay simple…
Forrige uke annonserte Google på første dag av Google Cloud Next ’20 et teknologisk gjennombrudd som de kalte for “Confidential Computing”. Med denne annonseringen tilgjengeliggjør de en ny betatjeneste, som de kaller for “Confidential Virtual Machines” (Confidential VMs), og den skal hjelpe til med å få enda flere kunder over…
It has been six years now since I first came into contact with the #NoEstimates movement. I was attending the OOP conference in Munich, and went to Vasco Duarte’s session called “How to improve estimates for software: The #NoEstimates view”. For me, it was an eye-opener, not in the sense…
Not so long ago, Kevlin Henney drew my attention to Peter Hilton’s request on Twitter for an article about how to use Java packages properly. There has been a long discussion about whether Java classes should be organized in packages according to features or layers. My opinion is that neither…
vet ikke hvor mange ganger jeg har vært på JavaZone opp gjennom årene, men jeg tror ikke jeg har hoppet over mer enn én eller to utgaver. …
Forrige uke leste jeg i Dag og Tid en interessant artikkel om mislykkede offentlige prosjekter, og hvordan man kan redusere risikoen og minimere kostnadene for dem. Det hjalp at artikkelen hadde fått tittelen «Ingeniørar og politikarar kostar oss mest» for å få min oppmerksomhet, siden jeg selv er ingeniør. …
One of the key concepts of RESTful webservices is the use of resources, and in particular how the resource URIs should look like. One should not underestimate the value of giving domain objects good names and structuring their identifiers in a proper way. In many cases, this will naturally lead…
Hypermedia as the engine of application state (HATEOAS) lets clients interact with the server entirely through the hypermedia provided by the server. In short: the logic about where to go next, and in particular the URLs for the resources where to go next, is implemented on the server side. Clients…
