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Document Your Agile Architecture
2024-07-01 in 2024
The overwhelming success of agile approaches to create digital products has implications on our work techniques. Design emerges. The team learns incrementally and refines the solution [1]. Agile architecture is a collaborative and iterative process. …
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Actors with CMSIS OS in Cpp
2024-06-15 in 2024
The actor library defines the actor abstraction with mailboxes and concrete implementation for various target platforms. The CMSIS-RTOS v2 platform provides an actor implementation for all realtime kernels supporting the CMSIS API. The API is under …
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Actors in Cpp
2024-06-10 in 2024
There is a strong need for higher-level frameworks ensuring safe concurrent programming. The Actor Model is one of the best approaches to safe concurrency and legible code [1]. The model is based on Message Passing. Although multiple actors can run …
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Daily Scrum Questions
2024-06-01 in 2024
The daily Scrum meeting is a key event for the development team. It is a time-boxed event of maximum 15 minutes. The developers find out if the Sprint Goal is still achievable and what are the identified impediments to be tackled. Often the …
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I Love My Nerdy Job
2024-05-20 in 2024
I am a computer science engineer. I love to solve problems and provide cool solutions to users [1]. I love my software development job. I am already sixty years old. I started programming before I was 20. And I still tremendously love developing …
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Actor Model
2024-05-10 in 2024
Concurrent programming has always been tricky. Accessing a shared state from multiple threads is a central problem, where hard-to-catch errors may easily appear. Protected access to identified shared variables is easy to realize. Mechanisms to avoid …
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How to Document Your Software Architecture
2024-05-01 in 2024
You are creating the next digital software masterpiece. How can you document your software architecture in a way that is useful for your team and stakeholders? A software architecture document SAD is a document that describes the structure of a …
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Modern Java Rant
2024-04-20 in 2024
The Java community releases a new version every six months. This is a good thing, it means that the language is evolving at a steady pace. New language features are added in each release. Much effort is put into improving the performance of the JVM …
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Structure Your Concurrency
2024-04-01 in 2024
Writing concurrent software is one of the greatest challenges for software developers [1, 2]. A professional software developer must understand the principles of concurrent programming and the tools available to write concurrent software. Only …
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Asciidoc and Hugo Website Improvements
2024-03-15 in 2024
The static website build tool Hugo is awesome. The extensive built-in feature set of Hugo and the feature-rich typesetting that Asciidoc offers provide a blogging experience composed of easy content management and fun writing experience. Source code …