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In 2014, when I was working as a professional developer at a gaming company with around 25 developers, I heard about microservices for the first time at a conference - and was immediately excited.

Your team says it’s working on new features.

Your development team is using AI coding agents.

You gave your development team AI tools.

Your team has Cursor subscriptions.

Your development team says: “We should start using AI tools.”

When developing complex software systems, teams often go through a documentation cycle that follows an almost predictable pattern.

I recently attended Team ‘24, Atlassian’s flagship conference, where I had the chance to meet with Matt Schvimmer, Senior Vice President and Head of Product for Atlassian’s Agile and DevOps portfolio.

As a young developer, I was naive and ambitious.

Hi, What if…?

Hi, HashMap?

Hi, “RCoffee [an internal tool for content production] accesses the test servers via SSH and displays the Tomcat logs” Wow.

Hi, An old developer joke: There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. – Leon Bambrick Or another version: There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2.

Hi, When “the customer” calls, very different things happen in various companies You probably know this from your everyday life.

Hi, What happens when software rots over decades?

In recent years, numerous medium-sized companies have tried the much-touted microservices and found that they are less lightweight than their name suggests – Microservices in SMEs are often overengineering .

Hi, Dave Thomas never tires of mentioning that “agile” is an adjective - and not a noun.

Hi, Ten years ago, most companies were still dealing with manually managed infrastructures.

Hi, In one of my client projects, we reflect on our working methods.

For more than a decade, hardly a conference goes by without the topic of microservices.

Hi, Have you ever tried closing vim?

In the beginning, IT teams often implement new features quickly, but over time, development tends to slow down.

Hi, You might have heard that null was referred to by its creator, Tony Hoare, as the “billion-dollar mistake.”

Hi, I need to make a confession right off the bat: I’m at odds with Kubernetes.

Hi, Do you know what Survivorship Bias is?

Hi, Currently, I am writing a new article for Golem.de.

Hi, This year, I’m a bit behind with the newsletters.

Hi, As written on Monday : Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have no problem with performance.

Hi, I haven’t sold my Spring Performance Workshop even once.

Hi, Especially in software development, many people work who are particularly good at abstraction and objective consideration of problems and questions.

Hi, What does this computer have to do with your work today?

Hi, Here’s the translation of the text into English: For years, my holy trinity in monitoring has been: Grafana for metrics Elastic for logs and tracing And Sentry for error tracking With this stack, I have been moving from project to project for years.

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Hi, I committed to main.

Hi, Ever Heard of Tautological Tests?

Hi, When was the last major change in your life?

Hi, The Paradox of Freedom: The more options we have, the more anxious we become that we chose the wrong thing. ~ Mark Manson Mark Manson is not a software developer.

Hi, In the team of one of my clients, I earned the nickname “Quickdraw Hero” (My surname “Held” translates to hero in english 😉) Because I shoot so fast.

Hi, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”

Hi, Microservice Architecture This buzzword has become a trigger for me.

Hi, What is actually a “Unit” in a Unit Test?

Hi, Unpopular Opinion Warning: Legacy is Sexy!

Hi, After 9 hours, the decision was clear: We had to roll back.

Hi, After almost two years without a release, this Saturday marks the big day.

Hi, Why do we develop object-oriented today and not functionally?

Hi, My work methods have changed more in the past year than ever before.

Hi, My fingers were tingling at the start of Thorben Janssen’s session “The Big Java Persistence Q&A”.

Hi, Nervousness sliced through the room.

Hi, For a treasure hunt for a 5-year-old, I want to write a text.

Hi, Is Scrum democratic?