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I didn’t understand the service-oriented architecture. I thought that it was just one of those highly theoretical and very impractical software architecture patterns. In other words, I considered it to be an architecture fanatics’ wet dream. Then I read an article titled Microservices by Martin Fowler, and the service-oriented architecture started suddenly make sense to […] Read More about The Microservice Architecture Sounds Like Service-Oriented Architecture

I have written about the challenges of writing unit tests for applications which use Spring Social 1.1.0 and provided one solution for it. Although unit testing is valuable, it doesn’t really tell us if our application is working correctly. That is why we have to write integration tests for it. This blog post helps us […] Read More about Adding Social Sign In to a Spring MVC Web Application: Integration Testing

This week I read a blog post titled Where is the Foreman by Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin. It made me think. Uncle Bob suggests that a software development team should have a foreman who: He'd make sure everything was done, done right, and done on time. He'd be the only one with commit rights. Everybody […] Read More about We Need More Foremen

I write software which is used to manage sensitive information. It doesn't really matter what kind of information my software deals with. The only things that matters are Only authorized persons can access that information. The information must be correct at all times. Also, often the first requirement is a lot more important than the […] Read More about Why I Write Tests?

When potential customers contact us, the odds are that they want to know two things: How much does it cost to implement the application? How long it will take to implement the application? The honest answer to both of these questions is: We have no idea. Needless to say, if we give this answer to […] Read More about Two Reasons Why Estimates Aren't Worth It

There are three ways to create new objects in Java programming language: The telescoping constructor (anti)pattern The Javabeans pattern The builder pattern I prefer the builder pattern over the other two methods. Why? Joshua Bloch described the builder pattern and the benefits of using it in Effective Java. He did an excellent job and I […] Read More about Three Reasons Why I Like the Builder Pattern