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
Blockchain, the next big thing?
07/18/17
What’s this Blockchain everyone starts talking about? What can we do with it? Isn’t it just about Bitcoin and currencies? This post explains the basic concepts of Blockchain and how they can be used. Read more
Mocks or the real thing? Tips for better unit testing
This is not a tutorial about how to exploit the advanced features in modern mocking frameworks. Rather, it’s a warning that these features work around design decisions that were wrong to begin with. Read more
Android App – Conversion from Java to Kotlin
07/13/17
This instruction gives some insights on how to convert an existing Android Java app project to Kotlin. Read more
Gatling Load Testing Part 2 – Extending Gatling
07/12/17
I hope you enjoyed my first article about Gatling. The second one will go much more into detail and involves... Read more
Maintenance hell? No, thanks!
07/11/17
Custome made software products have one thing in common: they require continuous maintenance over a long period of time. Unfortunately, maintenance is often neglected. Read more