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Efficiently storing your domain model in Riak
Domain modelling and persistence appear to be at odds with each other, no matter which persistence store you use. Over the years practices have been developed for storing a model in a relational...
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Whenever you deliver some API that is to be consumed by another party, you will get the inevitable question of providing documentation. Probably every developer’s least favorite task. In Java there is...
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Dockerising your legacy integration tests
As most of you will know, every now and then you can expect the question ‘Can you help fix something on this ancient project?’ According to the Universal Software Ageing table, that means anything from...
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Leaving a Java legacy behind
As with a house, software applications require maintenance too. Otherwise, you risk the digital equivalent of rot: bit-rot. Often, the maintenance is done like with a house: Superficially to make it...
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What's in a name?
Photo by Artem Sapegin on Unsplash Those that have followed this blog for some time, know that Trifork Amsterdam, and especially its precursors, are not unfamiliar with challenges when it comes to...
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Going Cuckoo over Bloom filters
Sometimes you encounter a situation where you would like to do a simple check to see whether something is needed before you get started. This was the case recently on a project where we asked various...
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Divide and Conquer: Table Partitioning
Many projects go live with a data store, most using a relational database. At the start of a project, we may not know if and how successful an application might become or how it may grow beyond the...
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