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Modernisierung einer Legacy Software-Architektur

Type-safe SQL queries in Java and Rust

The Type-Safe Web Stack, Part 3

Nicht mehr Open-Source

Was kann man tun, um sich vorab dagegen zu wappnen, plötzlich für eine wichtige Technologie einem Anbieter ausgeliefert zu sein? Kann es auch eine valide Entscheidung sein, das Risiko bewusst in Kauf zu nehmen? Und sind die Risiken, die sich bei Verwendung von Open-Source-Technologien ergeben, per se geringer als bei kommerziellen Alternativen? Wie geht man damit um, wenn eine Technologie, die man verwendet, plötzlich nicht mehr Open-Source ist? Ist es sinnvoll, zu einem Fork zu wechseln, und welche Risiken bestehen dabei?

Identification of Team Boundaries

How to Identify Boundaries for Autonomous, Cross-Functional Teams

Die Ökonomie von Gut & Crypto III

Soziotechnische Welten - Teil 13

Type-safe HTML templates in Java and Rust

The current fashion in our industry is to use static and strong typing wherever possible. How fashion-conscious is the Java community when it comes to HTML templating, though? Let’s have a look at what approaches at type-safe or build-time verified HTML templating are available in the Java ecosystem, how they compare to what’s available in Rust, and whether the benefits outweigh the costs.

Die Ökonomie von Gut & Crypto II

Soziotechnische Welten - Teil 12

gRPC

What, Why and How

Type-safe HTTP routing in Java and Rust

In recent years, the trend in our pop-culture industry has been to favour static and strong typing as well as build-time checks over dynamic typing and techniques like late binding. Where possible, you are expected to use the compiler for correctness checks instead of unit tests. Even though the Java language is statically typed, its type system is often considered to be not very helpful. Web applications written in Java are traditionally bristling with weakly typed APIs, heavy use of reflection, and lots of annotations that are interpreted at runtime. Let’s see how far the trend towards build-time checks has been adopted in the Java ecosystem when it comes to writing web applications, how it compares to what’s done in the Rust community, and what benefits and weak points these techniques have.

Was ist eigentlich htmx?

Das fehlende Puzzlestück von HTML?

API gut, alles gut

Schnittstellen für unabhängige Systeme

Bestehende Rich Clients erneuern

Oft gibt es Rich-Clients die als Backoffice-Applikation wichtige Funktionen erfüllen und nun Probleme machen: egal ob es um Support für mobile Geräte oder um einfaches Arbeiten von zu Hause geht oder auch nur um das Sicherstellen der Weiterentwicklung – Rich-Clients kommen mit Ihren eigenen Problemen. Ob die richtige Antwort für die Modernisierung solcher Applikationen immer die Migration zu einer Webapplikation ist, wollen wir in diesem Artikel beleuchten.

Fundamentals of software architecture: Part 5

Where does it go from here?

Fundamentals of software architecture: Part 4

Who does it?

Communicating organizational changes with “Team Topologies”

Whenever the need arises to set up a new team, split a team into two or move responsibilities between teams it is necessary to have a good idea of where you are and where you want to be after the change. Additionally to the current and final states you will very likely have phases with intermediate states. To help everyone involved to have a shared understanding of which phases you will transition through - and when responsibilities and communication channels have to be created or changed - a visual representation of these states can be used to paint a (literal) common picture.

Automating Dependency Updates with Renovate

Always stay up to date

Technologies for the Integration of Services

A small architecture study

Compliance in hybrid operating environments

Compliance is a key element of corporate governance. It helps ensure that developed software upholds the necessary legal conformity and quality. It is also an unavoidable criterion for modernizing a system landscape, which often goes hand in hand with migration to the cloud.

Fundamentals of software architecture: Part 3

Tasks and activities – How is it done?

Combinable Elements for User Interfaces on the Web

Components in web applications

Extending the OpenTelemetry Java Agent for Spring Auto-Instrumentation

OpenTelemetry is great. A few days ago, I was diving a bit more into the intrinsics of the OpenTelemetry standard and the Java auto-instrumentation in particular.

Zukünftige Features des JDK

Ein Blick in die Glaskugel

Entwickeln mit ChatGPT

Wie KI meine Programmierarbeit revolutioniert

The Evolutionist

The current training and further education of software developers strongly focuses on the development of new software. Conferences and trade magazines are full of new programming languages, new tools, new hypes, which seemingly never cease to amaze. Quick results, direct feedback, and unprecedented productivity are suggested. The urge to incorporate the new into one’s software is awakened – until one is brought back to reality: their own legacy system.

Fundamentals of software architecture: Part 2

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