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 :)

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…