Apart from esoteric or „spiritual“ circles it seems a trait of software development to use „pearls of wisdom“ to impart one’s professionalism. „Appeal to authority“ likewise is in broad use. It was this tweet which made that clear to me once more: And I’m sick…

You’ve probably heard of the seminal paper „Go To Statement Considered Harmful“ by Edsger Dijkstra from 1968. It paved the way for broad adoption of then modern programming languages with their control flow statements like if-then, for, or while. With Pascal and C probably being…

You probably have ridden a bike a couple of times. And you probably have used one with a couple of gears. So I think you are in a good position to reflect on the notion of velocity as still promoted by quite a few Scrum…

What’s Event Sourcing (ES) for? Why deviate from the all encompassing cosy domain data models for keeping and storing application state? Why jump through all the hoops of ES and risk overengineered code? The other day I read an article about Event Sourcing by Tobias…

Developers shun it, if they can: Eventual Consistency (EC). Rather they jump through hoops and invest huge efforts and drive technologies through all sorts of contortions to avoid even small areas of EC in their applications. What developers love is Immediate Consistency (IC). That’s what…