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Fundamentals of software architecture: Part 1

Building, purpose, aesthetics

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Rate Limiting with Spring Boot, Bucket4j, and Redis
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Rate Limiting with Spring Boot

Let’s implement rate-limiting protection for your Spring Boot server without the need for any additional dependencies beyond those included in the Spring Boot Starter package.

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Lokale LLMs mit Ollama und Spring AI nutzen

Ein Lama im Frühling

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Compacted State Feeds
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Es lebe die Bürokratie!

Die Digitalisierung hilft, Bürokratie zu reduzieren, glaubt man. Warum das so einfach nicht ist, erklärt diese Kolumne.

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Was treibt dich an?

Wie unterschiedliche Auslöser unterschiedliche Ansätze der Softwaremodernisierung bedingen

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Automatisierte Code-Wartung mit OpenRewrite

Teil 2

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Rooting Out Issues: JPA and Lombok Combination Problems Demystified

Ever encountered perplexing issues with JPA and Lombok’s @Data annotation when handling entities in Java? This blog post explores unexpected behaviors, especially with auto-generated IDs, in conjunction with equals and hashCode methods. Learn about identity and uncover how you can resolve these challenges forever.

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Die Anatomie eines erfolgreichen Teams

…und worauf Sie bei der Zusammenstellung eines erfolgreichen Software-Entwicklungsteams achten sollten

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Automated code maintenance with OpenRewrite

Part 1

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Schema Evolution

Using Kafka, sooner or later you might want to describe a schema to specify your data structures. Since software continuously changes during it’s lifetime you’ll also have to evolve your schema. In this article we’ll discuss approaches and tools which can guide you in the realization of your schema evolution.

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Micro Frontends With Ionic And Capacitor
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Die Ökonomie von Gut & Crypto I

Soziotechnische Welten - Teil 11

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Testing your GitLab CI/CD pipeline

If you develop a pipeline as a service for other development teams you should treat it as a product and establish product development processes, a versioning strategy, etc. around it. Besides that, as potentially many teams will use and rely on your pipeline you want to make sure that new features don’t break existing functionality. This ensures that your customer base remains happy and able to deliver business value. Therefore you need some sort of testing and we will demonstrate a way to (integration-) test your GitLab CI/CD pipeline.

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Mit Reviews in Legacy-Situationen orientieren
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JDK 21, the next long-term support release

An overview of the changes since JDK 17

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Containers for tests and local development with Spring Boot 3.1

Spring Boot 3.1.0, the most recent minor release of Spring Boot 3, appeared in May. In this article, we will be taking a look at how the new support for Testcontainers and Docker Compose can help us with tests and local development.

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Testing in Spring Boot applications

Slice it up, please

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How to bootstrap a tech conference with a 100% women+ speaker lineup

A look back to the Women+ in Data and AI Summer Festival as we plan ahead for 2024

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No future-proof architectures!

Architecture: The term itself radiates stability. It seems clear, then, that good architecture should be future-proof. But precisely this goal often leads to problems. Does that mean it is better not to design future-proof architectures?

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Is Platform Engineering the new DevOps?
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Willkommen im Himmel

Mit Mehrwert zur profitablen Cloud

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Concise Documentation – Revisited

You think architecture documentation is cumbersome and takes a long time to create? We will prove you wrong.

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Paradoxical Safety

Soziotechnische Welten – Teil 8