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SMEs, Steer Clear of Microservices!

April 15, 2024

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Softwareentwicklung im Mittelstand February 2, 2024

The VPN Paradox

Hi, Especially in software development, many people work who are particularly good at abstraction and objective consideration of problems and questions. It’s in the nature of the thing. It’s our job to thoroughly understand a problem in detail. And the solutions always require weighing the pros and cons. But there are always problems and habits that have become entrenched in our industry that, objectively viewed, make no sense. Our use of VPNs is ambivalent

Marcus Held

Entwicklungspraxis January 30, 2024

The ADM-3A Keyboard

Hi, What does this computer have to do with your work today? You are looking at an ADM-3A from 1976. But why should this computer still interest you nearly 50 years later? The ADM-3A is the reason for some standards you use today Take a look at the keyboard layout: Why do people still use esc to enter command mode in vi? On the ADM-3A, the esc key was right next to Q. It was easily accessible.

Marcus Held

Softwareentwicklung im Mittelstand January 26, 2024

The Monitoring Tool Jungle

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. For some reason, I always ended up in projects that used this stack. Maybe Loki was used instead of Elastic sometimes (ugh - I don’t like Loki 😉) .

Marcus Held

Entwicklungspraxis January 18, 2024

Your Assumptions Are Wrong

Hi, Your email validation is probably incorrect. And your model that every person has a first and last name is also incorrect. While I was rummaging through my bookmarks in the past few days looking for an article on Project Management in BigTech , I stumbled upon an old article from 2010: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names . An excellent essay! Our Assumptions are Wrong Perhaps you’ve already experienced that not every person has exactly one first and last name. And maybe you’ve had a support case where names change. After all, there are people who get married 😉

Marcus Held

Entwicklungspraxis January 15, 2024

I Commited to Main

Hi, I committed to main. Just like that 🫢 , you’re likely to have one of two reactions: “So what? Don’t bore me with that!” or “WTF? YOU CAN’T DO THAT!” If you belong to the first category: Cool! Either you’re not live yet and have the freedom to develop trunk-based, or your organization is so advanced with automation and the DevOps mindset that you can develop trunk-based too. Everything’s cool! Nothing to see here. See you in the next newsletter!

Marcus Held