Software Development

Be Clear on What a Software Platform Is Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. Let me briefly share mine: I view such a platform as a collection of software assets that are used by several products, as the following picture illustrates. In the picture above, product A, B, and C are built on the platform ...

Committing in Git is The Future Whatever you write in your git commit history is what you’ll be going back to at some point in the future to understand how the source code got to where it’s at now. There are a couple of things that seem to work well when managing commits in git: Don’t have more commits than ...

While I’ve rallied against painting all code with final in Java, and have accepted that it’s handy to have const in JavaScript as it generally forces some discipline into free-for-all code, there’s an underlying rule which could be used to make me want more constants everywhere. The rule is that a function should return something. This can be enforced, to ...

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In enterprise software the top one question you have to answer as a developer almost every day is “Where is this coming from?”. When trying to fix bugs, when developing new features, when refactoring. You have to be able to trace the code flow and to figure out where a certain value is coming from. And the bigger the codebase ...

Throughout the Test Smells catalogue, there are signs you may be testing your code, rather than its behaviour. Even in the humblest of unit tests, the overriding rule should be: Make your code perform its job and see what the result is. Developers who write code and its tests can often misunderstand this as produce tests for each line and ...

This post may not be able to break through the noise around API Gateways and Service Mesh. However, it’s 2020 and there is still abundant confusion around these topics. I have chosen to write this to help bring real concrete explanation to help clarify differences, overlap, and when to use which. Feel free to @ me on twitter (@christianposta) if ...

Any blog or documentation website needs Search functionality. You can achieve this in many ways, and most likely a server-side solution will be chosen. However, if you don’t want to deal with any backend, you can implement it all on the clientside, thanks to lunr.js. I first discovered Lunr.js a few years ago, but I didn’t use it since I ...

Intelligent Digital Mesh is the entwining of people, devices, content, and services enabled by digital models, business platforms and a rich, intelligent set of services to support digital business. We have witnessed the implementation of AI in every technology to leverage the benefits of autonomous systems. Enterprises are now focusing on using AI with technologies like blockchain and immersive technology ...