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Remote Mob Programming

Remote Mob Programming is an exciting working model for software developers who enjoy working in their home office as well as in a team.

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Ethereum Contracts with Truffle Framework

There are many ways of development for new Smart contracts for Ethereum. Truffle Suite is one of them. It gives the developer the power to focus more on business logic than on operations.

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Functional Service in Scala

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Cooking with Onions: Inward-Pointing Arrows

The onion architecture is an established approach to structuring applications.

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Report Generator in Rust

In this blog post, we are going to build a backend application in Rust for converting HTML report into PDF format. Rust is a system programming language which focuses on performance, stability and memory safety. There are thousands of Rust libraries built by its community and we are going to build our application using some of these libraries.

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Domain Events vs. Event Sourcing

Why domain events and event sourcing should not be mixed up

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Handling German Text with torchtext

There is a growing list of tools that are ready to be used with non-English texts. We show common ways to integrate them in torchtext and use their language-specific options.

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Declarative Data Transformations

This describes a declarative approach to validating and transforming inconsistently structured data.

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Testing is storytelling

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Continuous Integration Contradicts Features Branches!

Features branches are a popular approach to separating the development of different features - but unfortunately this contradicts continuous integration’s goal of continuously integrating all changes. So what to do?

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Do We Worship Complexity?

Complexity is the most important challenge in software development. So it is important to always strive to eliminate complexity. But sometimes we worship complexity - and that can make complexity problems unsolvable.

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Building a Load Test with Tsung for a Login and Post Session with dynamic url-encoded variables

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The Problem With Agility

Over twenty years ago, iterative-incremental development processes were already used. They are a forerunner of agile processes that have been around for more than fifteen years. Although agility has existed for quite some time, agile transformation is still an issue today. Often the transformation just doesn’t work. Why?

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No-Principles Software Architecture

The traditional principles of software architecture often lead to problems. Understanding these challenges is the first step towards eliminating them or even avoiding them right from the start.

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Code Redundancy or Reuse?

Why We Must Not Focus Just on Reuse

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Server-sent events in .NET with Akka

Server-sent events are an often undervalued technology when sending events is needed. For many languages, there are ready-to-use libraries available. There was practically no library in .NET that supports ASP.NET Core.

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Blockchain Mining: Embarrassingly Parallel?

In this blog post, we are going to look at three different approaches at mining new blocks in a blockchain using Rust, all of them using multiple threads, and we’re going to compare their runtime performances with each other and with that of the two single-threaded solutions from the previous post.

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Blockchain Mining with Rust

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Understanding decomposed

I think we can all agree that having our codebases more readable and understandable would make our lives much easier. In this post, I’m trying to point out at least a few ideas that influence understanding.

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Technical Debt Just Happens

“Technical debt” is a great metaphor to reason about the quality of a software project. But a closer look also reveals some problems and shows approaches how to deal with software quality even better.

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Microservices? Or Rather Monoliths?

After the Hype

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A Playground for Testing OpenID Connect

This post describes how you can set up a development environment in order to play around with your OpenID client implementation. When running your application in a cluster, it can be difficult to test how it will behave behind a load balancer. One factor that can be particularly difficult to test is when you are communicating with an OAuth 2.0 or OpenID Connect server which expects that a request will be redirected back to the same application instance that it came from.

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Native Clojure with GraalVM

The newly-released GraalVM changes the status quo in the realm of JVM-based programming languages. In this instalment we’ll explore its impact on Clojure. We’ll start small, but by the end we’ll compile an entire Ring web application into a self-contained native binary.

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Spring-less testing

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dprox – Declarative Reverse Proxy

Reverse proxies don’t have to be a pain when it comes to local development.