Vom 14. bis 16. November fanden in Karlsruhe die XP Days statt und von synyx waren (inklusive mir) vier Mitarbeiter dort. Da keiner von uns den Open Space am Samstag…

Metrics by yammer provides runtime metrics and statistics for all kind of apps you can imagine. A lot of stuff is directly useable out of the box, for example measuring…

03-04-2013 Es ist kein verspäteter Aprilscherz. Um über den eigenen Tellerrand zu schauen, verlasse ich die gewohnte Java Welt und breche meine Zelte im Individualsoftware Team ab. Der DevOp-Azubitausch beginnt.…

Static code analysis is one of the more controversial fields of software engineering. “Misleading Bogus!” screamers and “Must not work without it!” pleaders are bashing their heads in like survivors…

At first let me ask you a few questions about developing web applications: How do you create multiple column layouts? How do you make it flexible? How do you solve…

CoffeeScript Vert.x supports JavaScript through the Rhino JavaScript engine. Although JavaScript is a decent language once you get to know it, I prefer CoffeeScript, a language that compiles to JavaScript.…

The last few blogs about acceptance-testing focused on setting up a nice and scalable infrastructure to do testing through the (web)-GUI using a Selenium grid. Since we’ve got this running…

Event-Driven Concurrency At synyx, we are looking at vert.x for an upcoming project where we are building a system that will need to scale under load. The tag-line of vert.x…

In this post, we want to show you our Liquibase setup in a larger scale project that we’ve been developing for some time now. Gather Requirements First off, a bit…