Agility and EAM

Microservices all the way down – An interview with Michael Nygard

Michael Nygard is a well-known software engineer and architect. He designed and delivered some large-scale systems in his career and distilled some of his insights in his book Release It! [1]. He is also a renowned expert in the area of microservices...

• Microservices

The broken promise of re-use

Re-use is the holy grail of IT: whenever a new architectural paradigm comes to IT town, “re-use” is one of the core arguments why to go for that paradigm. The business sales pitch typically goes like this: “Switching to will cost some money upfront ...

• Software architecture
• Software development

The need for speed – A story about DevOps, microservices, continuous delivery...

Currently we can observe three mega-drivers that force IT into a dramatic change: Economic darwinismDigitizationDisruptive technologyAll of them are extremely important and the companies that ignore these drivers will sooner or later fall short of their...

• Digitalization
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Agile transformation
• Microservices

New slide decks available: Resilience patterns, Hystrix, beyond ACID transactions...

This is a small post to inform you about some new slide decks that you can view online or download if you like. I’ve been presenting at some conferences in the last months. First I talked about the developer challenges if you leave the strict consistency...

• Resilience

Agile, Scrum and the nonsense about architects

Let me start this post with a bit of ranting: I am so tired to hear or read the same nonsense over and over again usually emitted by people obviously hardly knowing what they are talking about. What am I ranting about? It is about this stupid argument...

• Agile
• Software architecture
• Agile methods

W-JAX Nachlese …

Vom 5.11.2012 bis zum 9.11.2012 öffnete wie bereits seit mehreren Jahren die W-JAX in München ihre Pforten – fünf Tage randvoll mit Vorträgen, Tutorien, Diskussionen, Ausstellung und Neuigkeiten rund um Java-basierte Enterprise- und Web-Anwendungen im...

Scalability, fault tolerance and emergent architecture

You might ask yourself how emergent architecture is related to scalability and fault tolerance. To be honest: Not at all. With this short blog post I just want to give you a pointer to a few recent presentations I finally managed to upload to Slideshare...

• Software architecture
• Chaos Engineering

Hochskalierbare Cloud-Architekturen

Auf der W-JAX 2011 haben mein Kollege Patrick Peschlow und ich über hochskalierbare Cloud-Architekturen gesprochen. Der Ausgangspunkt dafür war ein konkretes Cloud-Projekt, in dem es um ein praktisch beliebig skalierbares Cloud-SaaS-Angebot ging. In...

• Softwarearchitektur
• Cloud

Architecture is a compass, not a blueprint

It’s christmas holidays and as many other people I use that time to goof off a bit – no big visits of relatives, no big vacation trips, just hanging around at home and making sure not to do too much at all. But as many other people after the first few...

• Software architecture

Cloud Compliance – ein eher unbeliebtes, aber wichtiges Thema

Auf der W-JAX 2011 hatte ich die Gelegenheit, über das Thema Cloud Compliance zu sprechen. Ich hatte im Vorfeld das mehr oder minder zweifelhafte Vergnügen, mich im Rahmen einer Cloud-Entwicklung für ein SaaS-Startup recht intensiv mit den zugehörigen...

• Cloud
• Compliance
• IT-Security

Der Business Case für Architektur

Vor diversen Jahren, als ich noch ein junger, recht enthusiastischer und unbedarfter Junior-Architekt war, hatte mich einmal ein Manager gefragt, wofür den dieser ganze Architekturkram gut sei und warum er Geld dafür ausgeben solle. Als Antwort hatte...

• Softwarearchitektur

Cloud: An innovation or just old wine in new skins?

I read statements like “the cloud isn’t actually new”, or a bit harder “it’s just old wine in new skins” over and over again. Yes, you can think about it that way but I have my difficulties with those statements. Why? Disruptive innovations (those innovations...

• Cloud

Agile Worst Practices – Teil 4

Willkommen zum vierten Post aus der Serie Agile Worst Practices, die ich mit diesem Post begonnen hatte. Wir bleiben bei den Worst Practices für das Team und greifen ein Problem auf, das es auch außerhalb der agilen Welt gibt, im agilen Kontext aber...

• Agilität

Agile Worst Practices – Teil 3

Willkommen zum nächsten Post aus der Serie Agile Worst Practices, die ich mit diesem Post begonnen hatte. Wir bleiben bei den Worst Practices für das Team und greifen ein häufiges Missverständnis im agilen Umfeld auf: Team Worst Practice #3: Alles ist...

• Agilität

Agile Worst Practices – Teil 2

So, nach einer kleinen Pause über die Feiertage und den Jahreswechsel begrüße ich Euch zum nächsten Post aus der Serie Agile Worst Practices, die ich mit diesem Post begonnen hatte. Wir bleiben bei den Worst Practices für das Team: Team Worst Practice...

• Agilität

Agile Worst Practices – Teil 1

Auf der WJAX 2010 habe ich einen Vortrag mit dem Titel „Der agile Machiavelli oder wie kippe ich ein agiles Projekt?“ gehalten. Da meine Folien sehr minimalistisch waren und man auch nach fast 10 Jahren agilem Manifest noch überraschend viele „Worst...

• Agilität

We need more inline comments!

Inline comments within code are “evil” and everybody who still uses inline comments today is a really, really bad developer and should get his license revoked. That’s what seems to be consensus throughout the developer community … or at least throughout...

• Software development

Software Architecture Workshop with Dana Bredemeyer and Meet the Experts

All right, now I’m trying to write the probably shortest post ever published in the codecentric blog … 😉 So, what’s it about? I just wanted to point out for those who do not know yet that Dana Bredemeyer will conduct his well-known Software Architecture...

• Software architecture
• Community

Ist Qualität messbar? – Ein „moderiertes Streitgespräch“ auf der SEACON...

Eine Reihe interessanter bis erschreckender Erfahrungen in meiner beruflichen Laufbahn im Zusammenhang mit dem Messen bzw. Nichtmesssen von „Qualität“ hatte mich dazu bewogen, einen Vorschlag für eine entsprechende Session bei der SEACON 2010 einzureichen...

• Softwareentwicklung
• Community

Perfection in the IT – or “less is more”

Just a thought … A few days I read the following citation: “Perfection is reached not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.” (A. Saint-Exupéry) I thought about it for a while and from my perspective...

• Software architecture
• APM
• Software development

The fairy tale of the agile developer

What is the common story that you usually hear about agility? Yes, most of the times it is something like this: Agility was invented by a bunch of frustrated developers who had enough of big, big processes that did not work out and dozens of artefacts...

• Agile methods
• Agile
• Agile

Is there a difference between architecture and design?

Meanwhile, there is a debate for a long time whether architecture and design are the same thing or not. The advocates of the “both are the same” thesis say that architecture is basically the first stage of design, while the opponents of this thesis claim...

• Software architecture
• Software development

meet the experts – architecture | November-27-2009 – a reflection

This is a reflection of the meet the experts – architecture that took place at codecentric in Solingen at November-27-2009. Since the whole event including all talks was held completly in german an english version of this reflection would probably not...

• Software architecture
• Framework
• Community

The conventional project manager in Scrum

Many “conventional” project manager are quite offish about Scrum or they even reject it completely. One of the reasons for this behaviour is that they cannot identify with Scrum since there isn’t a role “project manager” in Scrum. Throughout our Meet...

• Agile
• Agile transformation
• Controlling
• Community
• Agile methods
• Agile

meet the experts – architektur | 27. November 2009

Das erste meet the experts – performance im Juni war für alle Beteiligten ein erlebnisreicher Tag. Auch das zweite meet the experts – agilität am 4. September war ein interessanter Tag mit vielen spannenden Vorträgen und Diskussionen. Daher freue ich...

• Agilität
• Community
• Java
• Search
• APM
• Softwarearchitektur

Impressions from the SET 2009 in Zurich

Last week I attended the SET 2009 in Zurich. The conference – organized by SIGS DATACOM – is not as big as their flagship conference OOP. About 160 people visited the conference, it took two days and had a nice programme organised in three parallel ...

• Software architecture
• Community
• Search
• Frontend

JAX 2009 – Agile Day

Yesterday I attended the Agile Day on the JAX 2009 in Mainz. I do not want to rate the talks in any way. Since was one of the speakers, it just wouldn’t make much sense … 😉 … but I want to share a few personal impressions I had. First I was surprised...

• Agile
• Community
• Agile

TOGAF applied

Meanwhile I know TOGAF for several years but I never found the opportunity to use it in its whole breadth in a customer project. For any actual project situation TOGAF with all its phases and result artifacts always seemed to be just too much to use...

• Framework
• Community
• Software architecture

Wikipedia is always right

If we look for a definition of a term or for an explanation of a special topic, where do we look first? Right, in Wikipedia ! We know that the information in Wikipedia are collected by an open community that consists of thousands of experts all around...

• Software architecture
• Community
• Search
• Framework