This blog article is about our experiences and takeaways with remote event storming and tries to highlight differences to the on-site variant.

After talking about the attitude concerning values and synyx' new claim 'Code with Attitude' some time ago, today I will focus on the 'attitude' towards the people you interact with.

At synyx we recently came forward with a new tagline, trying to express our general mindset that is distinctive concerning the way we work with clients, the software community and each other. The line is: 'Code with Attitude'. In the instant I heard this simple sentence for the first time it triggered a multitude of associations, memories and emotions that I connect with the word 'attitude' in conjunction with software development.

83,9% - what does that even mean? Conversations about unit test coverage usually sound like this: A: “What’s your coverage?” B: “About 83,9%” C: “Meh. Solid.” A: “Solid? That’s incredibly high!” D: “Ours is 40% but we have a lot of generated code so it’s still high.” This shows that the perception of code coverage is highly subjective and most of the time does not have the informative value that a precise percentage indicator like '

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.

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.

Die Entwicklertage in unserer Heimatstadt sind schon seit Jahren ein sicherer Anker in unserem Konferenzkalender. Der Veranstalter Andrena hat auch dieses Jahr wieder die Entwicklergemeinde der Region herbeizitiert und drei…

Die Karlsruher Entwicklertage hatten Geburtstag! Zehn Jahre alt wurden sie und das mussten wir synyxler uns anschauen. Wir freuten uns auf hochwertige Talks und das Wiedersehen mit vielen Karlsruher Kollegen…

The training issue One issue that every company has to deal with is the training of its employees. I encountered different attitudes regarding this subject in different companies and wondered…

Während der Karlsruher Entwicklertag der andrena objects ag schon seit 2010 ein etabliertes Event in Karlsruhe ist, brachte der Veranstalter die Konferenz dieses Jahr erst zum zweiten Mal nach Frankfurt.…

Last weekend our conference train got rolling again. A group of twelve synyx guys and gals boarded the ICE to our capital, heading for the Berlin Expert Days, a nice…

Every development project has a business guy attached, who holds the project money and makes the decisions what the team should implement. That guy can be your customer, sales manager,…

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…