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Manfred Steyer @ AngularConnect 2018: Architectures for huge Angular based enterprise applications

January 13, 2019 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Development, Software, Web Applications 0 Comments
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Cloud Design Pattern Library by Microsoft

Microsoft maintains an extensive library of cloud design patterns. Whether you create applications that run on AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform, use platforms such as Heroku or you develop enterprise applications which run on on-premise cloud networks within a corporate intranet, cloud computing becomes ever more crucial to providing business value through software. Hence, it's not only expedient to know about the classic relatively low-level GoF design patterns or Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture but about design patterns for ...
December 16, 2018 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications 0 Comments
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References to Design Pattern Libraries

When designing and developing software it's always useful to have a reference to common software design patterns handy. Apart from cloud design pattern libraries there are collections of more low-level or more general design patterns, too. These include the classic GoF design patterns and Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
December 9, 2018 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applications 0 Comments
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Nonsense We Put up With: Complexity, Agile Gone Wrong and Enterprise Decision Making

Recently, I've come across a few articles that - although about ostensibly different subjects - share a common theme: When trying to create business value through software and devising the structures required to do so we all too often put up with wasteful processes, politics and toxic behaviour patterns that not only do not contribute to our goal but are downright detrimental. First, there's this transcript of a talk Martin Fowler gave at Agile Australia this year: The State of Agile Software ...
November 11, 2018 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software 0 Comments
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Things to Consider When Creating a New Business App: A Checklist for Setting up a Java-Based Software Architecture

Software developer Tom Hombergs - a former fellow student of mine - published this useful checklist for setting up Java applications on Reflectoring: A Checklist for setting up a Java-based Software Architecture It covers a wide array of both high and low level aspects of server-side and client-side development as well as architectural concerns. Furthermore, the checklist also has sections on operations, the development process and testing in particular. While some of the details may vary depending on the type of applications you create, ...
August 19, 2018 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software 0 Comments
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Keep it simple, stupid

As something of a follow-up on my article on using boring solutions from two weeks ago I'd like to point you to a blog post by Justin Etheredge, cofounder of software development company Simple Thread: Software Complexity Is Killing Us In this post Justin outlines in which ways software development has become easier in the past few decades and also points out the ways in which it hasn't. Most of the complexity of software applications accumulates in the layer that deals with business processes. ...
June 10, 2018 by Bjoern in Business, Enterprise Software, Software 0 Comments
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HTML is an API

HTML is an API or rather it could be if we used more in the way it was intended. In a comment on this Hacker News post about Toapi, a library that makes clever use of XPath expressions in order to provide an API from existing web pages, a user wrote Now I don't want to be a downer: but we collectively seem to have forgotten that HTML as a markup language with sufficient semantic elements, is a perfect API in itself. ...
May 20, 2018 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web, Web Applications 0 Comments
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A Quick Reminder About the Relevance of Latency in Computer Systems

This Gist by Jonas Bonér gives a quick overview of the different latency values for accessing different kinds of data storage and memory systems and the order of magnitude by which they differ: Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know Putting this in perspective is particularly important in the context of service-based architectures like RESTful web services, Microservices and similar approaches. All-out service-based architectures might be the right the solution to some scalability and deployment problems in complex software systems but it's vital to keep ...
January 21, 2018 by Bjoern in Software 0 Comments
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12 Factors for Building Quality Web Applications

When considering the different aspects that potentially contribute to (or detract from, mark you ...) quality, reliability and maintainability of a web application I always like to come back to the Twelve-Factor App. Originally created by Adam Wiggins in 2011 the Twelve-Factor App is a highly useful design framework for both creating new web apps and measuring and improving the quality of existing applications. This framework allows you to create and maintain long-term viable applications that make use of declarative formats, clearly ...
November 26, 2017 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applications 0 Comments
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Microservices and Decoupling Front-end Components

Microservices have become a common design pattern for splitting up and modularising monolithic applications. The indiscriminate application of this particular design pattern is quite a bit worrying, though. A few months ago I gave this answer to the question what the biggest struggle with Microservices is: Convincing people that microservices are not a cure-all but just another design pattern. You have to start out with a monolith and only if you realise along the way that some components might work better as a ...
November 19, 2017 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Development, Software, Web Applications 0 Comments
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