Writing a software usually happens on a machine with a prepared testing set of data. When you write another feature, you just slightly modify the testing set. Then you just go along by modification of the existing set again and again. Does it sound familiar?
Author archives: Voyta
One Hour Meetings Are Ineffective
Do you often have three meetings scheduled one after each other? How do you deal with it? I find such scheduling ineffective and exhausting. It’s a struggle to keep refreshed and open minded when you run from one meeting to another.
Bluetooth Beacons for Marketing
As I released my Android app Mobile Photo Guide I was considering multiple marketing approaches. I read several articles on Bluetooth Low Energy beacon technology and URL broadcasting to target customers. It sounded convincing as my target segment are tourists who just arrived to Scotland. I saw the article Google Beacons: Proximity Marketing is Ready […]
Disassembling Cheap HDMI Cable
Few years ago I bought an HDMI cable for £1 ($1.31). I just needed to connect my laptop to hotel screen, so went for the cheapest. It started to be a bit crazy in recent days as a placement of the cable caused some screen flickering.
Bottom-Up Innovation
I genuinely believe every human being has creative and innovative potential. It’s part of human code and we experience it in every day life, no matter if it is cooking, art, or engineering. Software engineering to me is a discipline on the triangle of engineering, creativity, and craftsmanship.
A Week with Java 11
I uninstalled Java 8 last weekend from my computer and tried to live without it. I made couple of observations since then and needed to reinstall Java 8.
Upgrading Legacy Java Web Application to JDK 11
Java 11 (https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/11/) was released on 25 September 2018, so I’ve decided I’ll upgrade my legacy Java web application that was written at times of Java 6. Even two month after the release, surprisingly, the tooling is not mature enough.
Importance of a Container Identification
Microservices are usually deployed using containers in a shared cluster. So a machine can host several containers running different apps. Those microservices communicate with other services, usually via HTTP protocol or messaging. It’s quite common problem that you observe a weird client behaviour on your service and you are trying to trace back to the […]
Thoughts on Resilient Cloud Architecture
In this blog post I’d like to cover a few thoughts on how to build and architect resilient services in cloud. Many things are good practice for normal architecture too but some of them are cloud-specific. I should point out that this is solely my opinion.
My Transition from On-Premises Software to Cloud
At the end of the last year I decided to make a significant change in my career. I joined cloud-native internet company Skyscanner and relocated from Prague to Edinburgh. It’s almost three months now so I think it’s a good time to capture my experience.