A small field report about replacing a bash script with a small golang program and develop it further to a 'true' script in the context of gitlab ci. Comparing small aspects of bash scripts and with the equivalent constructs in go Also mixed with some of my thoughts about scripting in general :)

Mit einigen Jahren JavaScript und Reactjs Erfahrung durfte ich Ende letzten Jahres (November 2019) Teil eines neuen Teams und eines neuen Projektes werden. Das Projekt ist ein Traumprojekt jeden Entwicklers. Ein grüne Wiese Projekt mit 'freier' Technologiewahl. 'Frei' in Form von man darf sich die Zeit für eine Risikoanalyse nehmen und moderne Tools und Frameworks evaluieren.

Erfahrungsbericht der KanDDDinsky Konferenz 2019

At synyx we recently came forward with a new tagline, trying to express our general mindset that is distinctive concerning the way we work with clients, the software community and each other. The line is: 'Code with Attitude'. In the instant I heard this simple sentence for the first time it triggered a multitude of associations, memories and emotions that I connect with the word 'attitude' in conjunction with software development.

Beim synyx Camp vor zwei Wochen haben wir uns unter anderem über das Setup unserer Entwicklungsumgebungen unterhalten. Im Folgenden möchte ich kurz berichten, wie ich meine eingerichtet habe und welche Programme ich in meiner alltäglichen Arbeit nicht mehr missen möchte.

It was not our primary goal to use Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) in the project at a customer, but while finding and optimizing our agile software development process we recognized that we established the building blocks of BDD. It works quite well and offers a lot of space and flexibility for our future plans, switching our architecture to microservices. The project setup But let us start at the beginning of the project.

There are several different tools to maintain the internal structure of a java application available. The tools range from simple open source software like jdepend and degraph to full fledged architecture…

Der nächste Sprint steht an… Wir treffen uns am Dienstag Morgen um 10:00 Uhr zum Refinement. Es gilt noch einige Themen fachlich genauer zu hinterfragen. Auch technische Grundlagen müssen noch…

Recently we had a problem related Springs auto-proxy feature that I think is worth writing about. The Problem We use Spring as our framework of choice because it provides us…

Während der Karlsruher Entwicklertag der andrena objects ag schon seit 2010 ein etabliertes Event in Karlsruhe ist, brachte der Veranstalter die Konferenz dieses Jahr erst zum zweiten Mal nach Frankfurt.…

In our internal JavaScript ‘User Group’ (called JS-Posse in honour of the legendary ‘The Java Posse‘ by Dick Wall, Chet Haase et al.), we recently decided to evaluate alternatives to…

I am a fresh employee at synyx. I started early in 2013 to work for the company and the Devoxx 2013 in Antwerp was my first conference with my new colleagues.…

some time ago Aljona showed how to monitor and manage your java application with jmx I’m going to show, how you can make use of JMX from the viewpoint of…

Software Qualität ist ein Trendthema aber wie erreicht man eine hohe Qualität? Reichen gängige Instrumente wie UnitTests und Code-Reviews aus? Clean Code Development bietet keine fertigen Problemlösungen sondern fasst Prinzipien…

Recently, we started integrating Liquibase as a database schema migration tool into most of my team’s projects, for both new from-scratch projects and already existing ones. Liquibase is great because…

Developers have a tendency to not only work on a single project at once. Depending on those projects, there is a constant struggle to keep your programming environment in sync…

Heute will ich einmal die Gelegenheit nutzen und die beiden wohl populärsten Konferenzen für Java-Entwicklung innerhalb Europas gegenüberstellen. Dazu muss ich aber fairerweise anmerken, dass ich die Devoxx’2011 komplett besuchte,…

More and more Projects at our company are taking advantage of distributed and local revision control by using git. So to make a complete software-project fit for git, by not…

Following our principle of Continuous Skill Enhancement here at Synyx I recently read the book Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation by Jez Humble (from…

Unfortunately there are still projects not on dvsc like git. That’s especially true for enterprise customers which are at least stuck on Subversion if not worse. So the first thing…

When developing web apps with Maven the de facto standard for running the app is to use the excellent Maven Jetty Plugin which runs the project in an embedded Jetty…

For quite some years Scrum has been THE agile development process. Scrum got mainstream. But let’s have a look what got mainstream here. Scrum, Agility, Buzzwords, Scrum Master got mainstream…