Software Craft
Microservice Communication Patterns
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Tom Hombergs
- May 14, 2018
A microservice architecture is all about communication. How should services communicate in any given business scenario? Should they call each other synchronously?
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Publishing Open Source Releases to JCenter and Maven Central
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Tom Hombergs
- January 24, 2018
In previous articles, I discussed how to publish snapshots to oss.jfrog.org and how to publish releases to Bintray using Gradle as a build tool.
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7 Reasons to Choose Consumer-Driven Contract Tests Over End-to-End Tests
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Tom Hombergs
- November 29, 2017
In a distributed system, testing the successful integration between distributed services is essential for ensuring that the services won’t fail in production just because they’re not speaking the same language.
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A Checklist for setting up a Java-based Software Architecture
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Tom Hombergs
- May 27, 2017
I recently had the opportunity to propose the architecture for a new large-scale software project. While it’s fun being paid for finding the technologies that best fit to the customer’s requirements (of which only a fraction is available at the time, of course), it may also be daunting having to come up with a solution that is future-proof and scales with expectations.
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OpenID Connect
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David Klassen
- April 19, 2017
You may have already heard about OpenID Connect as the new standard for single sign-on and identity provision on the internet.
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Tool-based Database Refactoring
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Tom Hombergs
- April 1, 2017
The term “refactoring” is well defined in software development. It is usually used to describe a restructuring of source code ranging from simply renaming a variable to completely re-thinking whole components or applications.
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