Not everything that is vital is also your core business
Large software projects have many vital concerns, such as authentication and authorization. Despite the wealth of available libraries in the... Read more
Testing with GoMock: A Tutorial
08/16/17
This is a quick tutorial on how to test code using the GoMock mocking library and the standard library testing package testing. GoMock is... Read more
How and when to use JSON Web Tokens for your services
There are multiple ways to allow a service to be used securely. JSON web tokens is one of them, although... Read more
Do things that don’t scale: Building an MVP without Software Development
08/14/17
The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is often narrowed down to building a software product with few features. But you don't have to write even one line of code to build an MVP. Read more
Parsing of LocalDate query parameters in Spring Boot
Convention over configuration does not always work in Spring Boot. This blog post explains how to globally configure parsing of LocalDate query parameters. Read more
In defence of pedantic tools
We aim to please the customer at short notice and always overestimate our capacity to comprehend a system as it gets more complex. That’s a recipe for technical debt. Read more
Database design using Anchor Modeling
07/28/17
Anchor Modeling is an approach that puts agility into your database layer. Use it to boost your ability to respond to change and deal with the temporal nature of your database state. Read more
Lookup additional data in Spark Streaming
07/26/17
Looking up and adding additional data to the incoming stream is a common problem in Spark Streaming. In this post I will show four alternative solutions for this problem. Read more
Social Network Analysis and Topic Modeling of codecentric’s Twitter friends and followers
07/25/17
Recently, Matthias Radtke has written a very nice blog post on Topic Modeling of the codecentric Blog Articles, where he... Read more