My best microservices experience is running a dozen of services on a single machine and I have learnt a lot about eventing. In the past year I have been part of a big team engineering software for self-service checkouts. Full disclosure: This article by no means represents the opinion or…

Suppose a startup with huge ambitions and lots of venture capital, or an established firm that fires up a new project that will solve everything. When project stars from ground zero, business and product people see themselves as the driver of a great product. They want to have every feature…

Disclaimer: Please don’t continue if you are easily discouraged by cynicism The term microservices has been around several years now. In the beginning it was a way of creating distributed systems that are more agile and less monolithic than the old-school SOA architecture. SOA was about connecting big monolithic systems…

When you start creating a CI pipeline, you have to recall your knowledge about the different kinds of tests you know. You do some research, you realize you will need some functional and performance tests, some unit, component and acceptance tests, you also need end-to-end tests. …

“I am a programmer, should I switch from Java EE to Spring Boot?” — Just to get it straight: It’s Jakarta EE now :) Popular belief is that Java EE is only for the big, monolithic, legacy applications, whereas Spring Boot is for the microservices and cool new ventures, startups. (Not considering non-java stack now). This belief also drives fundamental technical decisions in businesses…

At one of my previous jobs we started a greenfield project with small team (about 10 developers) with an anticipation to grow to 30–40. It was what I like to call an ‘enterprise-grade web application’ with heavy server-side logic. I was in the backend team in a technical lead role…

You have a legacy software project or one that started only a couple years ago. You choose the technologies that were considered mature or maybe cutting edge at the time. But today there are newer frameworks, tools, servers, libraries, concepts available that are hot and trending. Should you switch? Deciding…

Engineers, programmers work best when they can immerse in tasks, solving a particular problem for several hours without interruption is when they can perform the best. …