This is the story of my team creating something awesome within one day. It begins in November of 2017 at 'Hack your Office', a 24-hour hackathon hosted in cooperation by my employer synyx and our customer dm-drogerie markt. Although it was an excellent hackathon, this is not the day I am refering to but it was on this day when the idea was born. Several of my team members from dm where participating in the hackathon, even Matthäus - one of our product owners - joined us.

Creating static web sites with Hugo is fun and fast but providing a convenient shortcode to smoothly cross-fade an unknown number of images in a blogpost gets a bit tricky… So let’s go!

This post outlines the steps needed to simultaneously deploy to Maven repositories and to GitHub Releases. Every time a tagged commit is pushed, a Travis CI build will be triggered automatically and start the release process. This blog post uses Sonatype Nexus as an example for a Maven repository manager. Preparing GitHub Releases Sergey Mashkov has written a Maven plugin that allows us to create a new release on our project’s releases page and upload our build artifacts to a release.

In this blog I will outline why we used Hazelcast for queueing messages in-memory distributed over a cluster and how we achieved higher resilience by persisting the queue’s content. I will explain the pitfalls and difficulties that we encountered and how I constantly switched between praising and condemning Hazelcast. The problem to solve I’m currently working in a project for a large customer data backend. The prod system consists of a load balanced cluster of five VMs each running two Tomcat instances hosting our application.

There are several different tools to maintain the internal structure of a java application available. The tools range from simple open source software like jdepend and degraph to full fledged architecture…

Ein bisschen aufgeregt waren wir dieses Mal schon. Im Gegensatz zu den vergangenen Events erwarteten wir am Samstag fast nur Kinder, welche noch nie bei der Devoxx4Kids mitgemacht haben. Wir…

Nach fast 6 Jahren hat das Open Source Projekt, die synyx Urlaubsverwaltung 70 offene Issues 194 gelöste Issues 2207 Commits 99 Releases Stand heute, 26. April 2017 …und eine kleine…

Früh klingelte der Wecker am Freitag morgen. Deutlicher früher als gewohnt, doch bevor der erste Alarmton zur Höchstform auflaufen konnte, war ich bereits hellwach – synyxCamp! Am Office angelangt bot…

Dieses Jahr waren wir, Devoxx4Kids Deutschland, wieder als Mentoren mit bei der Organisation und Durchführung der JavaLand4Kids dabei. Die von der DOAG organisierte Veranstaltung findet alljährlich im Rahmen der JavaLand…