Estimation, Monte Carlo Forecasting, Top 10 technology trends for 2020, Code Reviews at Google and Microsoft, Quantum Supremacy — 💭 Thought of the Week Software estimation is hard. Estimating with different people is even harder. Business sponsors, customers, users, etc. are always keen to know more about their products or projects. Especially, they are interested in when things are ready. With estimations, we are able to answer these questions (more or less accurate). …

Economic balance for test automation and Architectural Decision Records — Thoughts on Software Architecture #1: Thought: Economic balance for test automation Tool: Architectural Decision Records

Five universally applicable signs the taxi industry was ripe for disruption —and how you can avoid getting left behind like they did. — I arrived late at the main station and wanted to grab a taxi. I had not enough cash. But this shouldn’t be a problem today, right? Unfortunately, it was. No taxi wanted to accept card payments. Also my local taxi app was not working in this area. Thus, I needed…

Improve your skills. Step up your career. — It’s nearly one year ago, that I wrote one of my first blog posts on medium about 38 Actions and Insights to Become a Better Software Architect. …

Examples, hypotheses and possible consequences of the Everything-as-a-Service movement — Have you seen the latest announcements from Apple recently? And I am not talking about new devices, but about their new services, such as Apple Card, Apple Arcade, Apple TV+, Apple News+. Why should a hardware driven company offer services? Especially, services for markets which have already some dominant players?

Automate build, test and deployment using GitLab CI/CD — I recently wrote about how to CI/CD with Angular 6, Firebase and Bitbucket Pipelines. I received the feedback to also try out GitLab. Here we go. Outline Create GitLab Repository Create Angular 6 demo application Configuration Angular 6 for CI/CD (Build, Test, Deploy) Create Firebase project Configure CI/CD in GitLab Prerequisites GitLab…

Automate build, test and deployment using Bitbucket Pipelines — Motivation to invest in CI/CD Modern development practices are reducing batch sizes of work significantly to, e.g., speed up time to market or get customer feedback earlier. Classic release cadences of once or twice a year are not applicable anymore to keep pace with the market in more and more industries. Instead releases are done…

Modern Software Architecture with Domain Driven Design (DDD). Introduction on DDD and its relation to Microservices, Reactive Systems, BPM, Agile, CQRS and Event Sourcing. — Welcome to the first issue on Modern Software Architecture. Regularly, I collect and curate interesting and insightful news and stories for a specific topic within the field of Modern Software Architecture. I want to share my experience as software and enterprise architect with you. …

Several years ago, I was asked: “How have you become a software architect?”. We talked about necessary skills, experience and the amount of time and dedication it took to build up knowledge. Further, I went through the steps which I took, which technologies I have actively worked with or tried…