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Mar 18 202317 Mar 2023

Effective Conversations about Architecture with Business Stakeholders

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Video

IT and business often position themselves as customer – provider, which makes IT a cost center rather than a contributor to profit. Also, many software architects we’ve worked with, or developers interested in software architecture, have a big issue when trying to communicate trade-offs and architectural decisions to business stakeholders. A recent InfoQ article delves …

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Mar 11 202310 Mar 2023

Is Inheritance Good After All?

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Video

A long lasting advice in the past years has been: favour composition over inheritance. But does this mean inheritance has no more uses? We learned more about this topic when Samir Talwar sparked a conversation on Mastodon about inheritance and its uses, later joined by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and leading into very interesting insights about the …

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Mar 4 20233 Mar 2023

Practice How to Think Like an Attacker

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Video

The security mantra is that security needs to happen at all phases of development, and that you need to think like an attacker. But developers like us are focused on building things rather than finding ways to exploit them, so how do we get there? The answer is as usual: practice. In this video, Alex …

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Feb 25 202324 Feb 2023

“Nullable” Testing Patterns

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Video

A few weeks ago, James Shore has published a novel idea in the area of automated testing. The “Nullable” testing patterns offer a way to incrementally write tests on legacy code and to avoid mocks and design changes for testability, by allowing any class, to implement in addition to the production code a “nullable” implementation …

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Feb 18 202324 Feb 2023

Proactive Reliability with Nils Wloka

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Video

Chaos Engineering has appeared as a very useful practice for increasing application resiliency. However, most teams start using Chaos Engineering only after incidents happened and after a lot of pain in dealing with the reliability issues. Is it possible to have a proactive reliability practice, a shift-left in this domain, similar to what TDD is …

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Feb 16 202316 Feb 2023

NSA Deems C++ `Memory Unsafe’ – What’s Next?

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Video

After NSA published a paper in which it recommends using memory-safe languages and thus excluding C++, Bjarne Stroustroup and the Direction Group have activated and changed their stance on using static analysis tools as the primary way to prevent memory safety issues in the language. In this video Alex discusses the possible effects of the …

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Feb 11 202310 Feb 2023

High Performing Teams

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Video

During an AMA session with a client, a very good question came up: “How do I know I have a high performing team?” In the context of Scrum being a bootstrapping process for high performing teams, it’s interesting to discuss what they are and how to get there. To do so, we discuss a number …

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Feb 4 20234 Feb 2023

Focus on Fundamentals

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Video

Certain things in software development change quickly: languages, technologies, tools. Others have not changed for decades: practices, paradigms, heuristics. In this video, Alex shows how to find the fundamentals and why it’s important to focus on them.

Feb 3 20233 Feb 2023

Microservices Talk @ Cloud Native Meetup (RO)

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Video

Yesterday, I was the guest speaker for the Cloud Native Meetup Group from Bucharest. I gave a talk in Romanian about laws, principles, and practices for microservices architecture. Check out the recording below or on YouTube. If you’d like us to record the same talk in English, in studio settings, please let us know in …

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Jan 28 202327 Jan 2023

Reaction to Metrics in Software Development InfoQ Article

By Alex Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Video

Alex reacts to an InfoQ article about a process for finding metrics, and a list of metrics useful for software development. The article is here: https://www.infoq.com/articles/metrics-quality-software/.