Qafoo GmbH - passion for software quality
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:Author: 		www-data
:Date:			Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:07:55 +0100
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Software Architecture
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- Methods Of Teaching

  There are many different ways to teach topics of software developments. From
  recorded lectures to pair programming. Over the time we tried many of them
  with different customers and different topics. I want to provide you with an
  overview of what worked best for us for which topic.

- Scaling Constraints of Languages

  Micro-Services or any set of small services are common again right now.
  While it can make a lot of sense to use a dedicated service for a well
  defined problem those services are sometimes used just to play with a
  different server software. While it is pretty obvious for most that
  selecting the right database is important the same is true for selecting the
  right language (virtual machine) for the job.There are different types of
  services or server applications where different types of virtual machines
  (executing the opcodes / bytecode of the compiled source code) make more or
  less sense. What are the criteria we should base such a decision on and
  which language should we choose when?

- How To Synchronize a Database With ElasticSearch?

  Since search engines like Apache Solr and ElasticSearch are easy to use and
  setup more and more applications are using them to index their content and
  make it searchable by the user. After all the underlying Lucene index engine
  provides far more powerful features then a plain MySQL full text search or
  similar solutions. With Apache Solr and ElasticSearch you can enhance the
  performance and the functionality of your website.  What we often stumble
  across, though, is the naiive approach of synchronizing both data storages
  which tends to fail in multiple ways. Let me show how you can fix this.

- How To Refactor Without Breaking Things

  Refactoring means to change the structure of your code without changing its
  behavior. Refactoring is an essential part of everyday programming and
  should become knee-jerk for your whole development team. It is very helpful
  to cleanup feature spikes, revise earlier decisions and keep a maintainable
  code base in the long run. In a perfect project world - with extensive
  automated tests of various types - this is just a matter of getting used to.
  But there are only very few such projects, so getting into proper
  refactoring is much harder. This article will show you important tips to
  master this challenge with your team.

- Why Architecture Matters

  We experience that the system architectures of our customers grow more and
  more complex. This is either because of scaling requirements or because
  developers like to try out new technologies like implementing Microservices.
  What are the challenges with this and how can we overcome them?