One of the nice side effects of cloud services is that they enable engineering teams to provision their own infrastructure without having to go through a gatekeeper. This could be seen as an instan…| The Solution Space
The different levels of testing are well known: A bug found by the customer is extremely expensive, a bug found in acceptance testing somewhat less. At the end of the chain, usually, unit tests are…| The Solution Space
Senior leadership did the analysis: The root of the problem at XYZ Corp was a lack of clearly defined value statements that underpin the company’s unique culture! Problems like this demand the corp…| The Solution Space
When designing distributed systems, we sometimes think of latency and availability as two technical dimensions to balance out in our designs. I would like to argue that a more useful perspective wo…| The Solution Space
The proponents of DevOps (myself included) usually bring forward arguments that evolve around breaking silos: “You build it, you run it”. This, according to the philosophy, leads to deliverables th…| The Solution Space
I am certainly not the only one observing that the workplace has a tendency to make any word that described an interesting or innovative concept almost meaningless over time. The word “Agile” is an…| The Solution Space
Records are part of the Java language since version 14. They are a useful feature for types that primarily capture data and avoid some of the boilerplate that Java is famous for. While many traditi…| The Solution Space
Most people perceive salary negotiation as an unpleasant activity. One particular issue with the salary negotiation process that has been observed is, that candidates unable to approach a negotiati…| The Solution Space
If we had to write a list of typical skills we expect of Software Engineers, “writing clean code” would probably be on it. However, the trouble with clean code is that it is hardly an objective mea…| The Solution Space
It is modern to be data-driven. Organizations brag: “We make decisions based on data.” Having spent a decent amount of time building data-crunching systems, I have a lot of sympathy for this attitu…| The Solution Space
