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.
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. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery – Mathias Verraes
And there are many more:
There are so many variations on the “there are only two hard problems in computer programming…” joke that I’m starting to suspect that programming isn’t actually very easy. – Nat Pryce
Hi,
You probably know this from your everyday life. You have a question about your mobile contract. So, you call the hotline. A computer answers. You press 1… then 3… then refuse to have the call recorded for training purposes, and finally, you end up with some employee in a call center. You explain your problem. The employee has a script in front of them and goes through it with you from top to bottom. If they’re good, you don’t even notice it.
Hi,
More than I can list. The software has accumulated so many problems that they can’t be described compactly.
So far, this is not surprising. Maybe you have worked on such a project yourself.
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 . Now, they need to be deconstructed and transitioned to a more pragmatic architecture. We explain how this can be achieved.
Don’t worry: The deconstruction and transformation of the architecture is not only labor-intensive but also an opportunity. In software development, there is no one-size-fits-all solution; the appropriate architecture for the software is chosen based on the software’s requirements. This involves gathering the requirements of all stakeholders, which is often not adequately done in many projects. An architectural transformation allows for this to be rectified and reviewed.
Marcus Held