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Other November 23, 2024

Interview: How Atlassian Responds to Cloud Concerns and Over-Configuration of Tools

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. We discussed how Atlassian tools support modern software development. This interview was first published in German in Chef von Devs Newsletter #57 Atlassian tools like Jira, Bitbucket, Compass, and the newly announced Focus play a critical role for teams operating in complex environments.

Marcus Held

Architecture August 21, 2024

Anti-Pattern: The Perfect Software Architecture

As a young developer, I was naive and ambitious. I searched for the perfect software architecture, an approach that I could impose on any problem, regardless of industry, scaling requirements, security measures, or users. If you could solve this one problem abstractly, then surely this architecture could be applied everywhere. Right? This article first appeared in August 2024 as a premium article on Golem.de . This article explains why the pursuit of the perfect software architecture is an illusion.

Marcus Held

Newsletter July 23, 2024

What if...? CrowdStrike

Hi, What if…? I must have read this sentence hundreds of times in the last few days regarding the CrowdStrike outage. Everywhere, people are looking for someone to blame. And that is wrong! We are witnessing the classic blame game. It is more important to find someone to blame than to solve the problem. This only fosters fear. An employee of Tom Watson, the founder of IBM, once made a mistake that cost the company ten million dollars.

Marcus Held

Newsletter June 25, 2024

HashMap

Hi, HashMap? How can HashMap be a topic for the newsletter? Hold on! The topic came to mind because I was in an interview for a client yesterday and spent quite a long time discussing the HashMap. The experience was a bit of déjà-vu. 2-3 years ago, I was heavily involved in recruiting. During that time, I conducted over 150 technical interviews. And from that period, I learned a lot about our industry.

Marcus Held

Newsletter June 20, 2024

Surprising Architecture

Hi, “RCoffee [an internal tool for content production] accesses the test servers via SSH and displays the Tomcat logs” Wow. That was surprising. I have been working with this client for a year now. The application is the market leader in its field, and the current version was developed over 10 years ago. A lot has accumulated, of course. And when I am hired, the technical debt is usually very large.

Marcus Held