Tools are to developers, what guitars are to guitarists. There are always new and shiny ones and you can’t possibly have enough of them. And to be honest, we as a bunch of great Googlers and Stackoverflow-Copiers need tools to sanely measure up to the standard of implementing the core…

Isabella Rossi und ihre Kollegin Carmen Fernandes brühten vor ihren Laptops. Seit einem Tag hatten sie ihr Hotelzimmer in Düsseldorf am schönen Medienhafen nicht mehr verlassen. Über das Testfundament und seine Verbindung zu den Säulen zu schreiben, hatte die beiden so in den Flow versetzt, dass sie alles andere um…

Why do we need anything new? We have noticed that the use of current solutions often has to struggle with similar problems — which could be: developer skills are required to create test cases (implementation) defined states of the applications are needed, for example empty databases continuous creation of test data as close to production as…

Neue aufkommende Marktentwicklungen erhöhen den Druck auf die IT der Unternehmen zusehends. ERP-Systeme wurden bisher aufgrund ihrer Größe und Komplexität meist klassisch entwickelt, doch strategische Entscheidungen von Softwareanbietern wie SAP führen immer mehr zu der Notwendigkeit, auch diese Systeme agil zu entwickeln. In der agilen Softwareentwicklung steigt die Bedeutung des…

Inter-service communication is one of those topics that reveal if a developer really knows what they’re talking about. Let’s start with a little buzzword bingo: synchronous and asynchronous, pull vs push subscriptions, event-driven, streaming, real-time, batching, dead letter, at least once delivery… Do you know all of these terms and…

As the race of industrial digitalization is gaining pace and a huge capital is invested in this area, there is a need for intelligent remote monitoring of industrial machines to make it successful by reducing the maintenance cost and downtime. In the era where 5G and Edge-Computing are upgrading the…

Scaling stateless services is simple. Scaling databases is not. Fully managed, serverless and auto scaling databases are the essence of “heavy lifting” that the cloud providers provide. These databases are a great opportunity for developers but also a challenge, because we need to choose which database to use and whether…

In the WWW you can find a lot about Mircoservice Architecture, but the layer Architecture is usually skipped. This article should serve as an aid by creating a Microservice. The described Architecture is based on my personal experience. Responsibilities of the individual functionalities are kept separate and modular by a…

Containers were and are a game changer in shipping applications. In cloud native development there is no way around Containers. Containers famously solve the problem of “it works on my machine” because they allow you to package not just the application but the entire runtime and OS environment. Before starting…