Serialization is a great thing and a revolutionary feature of Java from the early days, but it does have some flaws. Among others, there are serious security issues I want to address in this post. The problem A typical example of a security issue is a communication via network using serialized Java…

Frameworks are good stuff, at least for middle to big enterprise applications. One doesn’t want to reinvent the wheel. Aspects like security, caching, monitoring are hard and it’s easy to get them wrong if implemented from scratch. On the other hand, there are valid use cases where you probably don’t…

>> Originally published on my blog. << As I was finishing my blog post about defining service boundaries, I had a very strong feeling that there must be some abstract concept of what I was trying to explain using actual examples… Of course, there is! It is the concept of…

>> Originally published on my blog. << In my previous post I briefly mentioned the importance of a good DevOps culture in an organization as an enabler to build state-of-the-art software, especially in the cloud environment. The role of DevOps is crucial in modern software development and, at the same…

>> Originally published on my blog << You Aren’t Gonna Need It (YAGNI) is one of the most important principles in software development. Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery You can see…

>> Originally published on my blog << After several years of the microservice hype, it now seems monoliths are cool again! Does this mean we have learned a lesson? I guess at least we accepted what Neal Ford stated in his book Building Evolutionary Architectures: If you can’t build a…