Articles, page 46

• Software Craft

  Tip: Provide Contextual Information in Log Messages

  Have you ever had a situation where you stared at en error message in a log and wondered “how the hell is this supposed to help me?

  Tom Hombergs August 5, 20186 min read
  
• Software Craft

  Tip: Use a Human-Readable Logging Format

  Application logs are all about finding the right information in the least amount of time. Automated log servers may help us in finding and filtering log messages.

  Tom Hombergs July 30, 20186 min read
  
• Software Craft

  Tip: Use Logging Levels Consistently

  When searching for a bug, or just trying to get a feel for an application, it helps a lot if we know which information we can expect to find in the logs.

  Tom Hombergs July 28, 20186 min read
  
• Software Craft

  Skipping a CI Build for non-code changes

  Skipping a CI build is like purposefully not brushing your teeth every morning and evening. You know it should not be skipped and you feel guilty when you do it anyways.

  Tom Hombergs June 11, 20183 min read
  
• Spring Boot

  Structuring and Testing Modules and Layers with Spring Boot

  Well-behaved software consists of highly cohesive modules that are loosely coupled to other modules. Each module takes care from user input in the web layer down to writing into and reading from the database.

  Tom Hombergs May 27, 20188 min read
  
• Software Craft

  Microservice Communication Patterns

  A microservice architecture is all about communication. How should services communicate in any given business scenario? Should they call each other synchronously?

  Tom Hombergs May 14, 20187 min read