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This site is supposed to be a showcase for my thoughts about software engineering, less a personal homepage. If you want to know more about me, invite me to a beer.

Also, have a look at my book "Developer on the Stage".

 
 
 
 

A short story about technical debt

30 Jan 2021
Posted by Steven

Recently, I repeated learning that long-term technical debt is a bitch. Some time ago, I performed an extensive refactoring in one of my main projects. It was necessary to change some architectural decisions that were not able to support newer requirements. This significantly changed the architecture and affected a lot of the code. Despite the amount of modifications necessary, a coworker and me plowed through and finished the task. In doing so, we realized even more code rot, but nothing too serious.

ArchUnit rules and arrays

04 Jan 2021
Posted by Steven

ArchUnit can be used to test dependencies between packages in Java. I use it to test that application slices do not depend on each other, but are disjunct:

Don’t component-scan in main Spring application class when using Spring Web MVC Test

04 Jan 2021
Posted by Steven

This article is about why annotating the Spring application class with @ComponentScan may cause problems when also using Spring Web MVC Test.

The code can be found here.

General Setup

The demo application is a simple Spring Boot application with a component scan directly in the application class:

Lessons Learned + News in November and December 2020

02 Jan 2021
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in November and December 2020:

Lessons Learned + News in September and Oktober 2020

01 Nov 2020
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in September and October 2020:

Moving a Spring-Angular-App from Cloudfoundry to AWS

24 Oct 2020
Posted by Steven

Recently, I moved the IT Hub from Pivotal Cloudfoundry to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This article highlights some of the decisions and illustrates the resulting architecture.

Some weeks ago, Pivotal announced the end of availability (EOA) for Pivotal Web Services (PWS), effective as of January 15, 2021. As the maintainer of the IT Hub, this forced me to move the application to a different solution pretty fast.

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