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Software Craft

One Best Way - Continuous Improvement in Software Engineering

Heidi Waterhouse
November 7, 2021

Let’s talk about what it means to find the one best way of doing something. We’ve been trying to answer this question since the dawn of someone teaching anyone how to do a task.

Spring Boot

Feature Flags with Spring Boot

Tom Hombergs
November 6, 2021

Feature flags are a great tool to improve confidence in deployments and to avoid impacting customers with unintended changes. Instead of deploying a new feature directly to production, we “hide” it behind an if/else statement in our code that evaluates a feature flag.

Software Craft

Laws and Principles of Software Development

Tom Hombergs
October 31, 2021

In discussions around software development, it’s almost impossible to avoid quoting a law or two. “This won’t work because of ‘The Law of X’!

Java

Timeouts with Spring Boot and Resilience4j

Saajan Nagendra
October 24, 2021

In this series so far, we have learned how to use the Resilience4j Retry, RateLimiter, TimeLimiter, Bulkhead, Circuitbreaker core modules and also seen its Spring Boot support for the Retry and the RateLimiter modules.

Java

Asserting Lists with AssertJ

Mateo Stjepanović
October 4, 2021

In tests, we need to add assertions to make sure that a result is the expected result. For this, we can make use of the AssertJ assertion library.

Software Craft

Atomic Habits in Software Development

Jessica Cregg
September 25, 2021

Compound interest is both a powerful and apt analogy for when it comes to devising your workflows. Improving a process' efficiency and efficacy by 2% can feel negligible.