Experience and expert knowledge are often priceless. With the domain storytelling method, the expertise of domain experts can be broken down and visualized. From the importance of the domain to the right approach to questions and digressions – here you can find out everything you need for a successful domain story.
Corporate culture, software development and architecture
API-Clients – Alternatives to Postman
The era of Postman as the preferred API client is coming to an end. This article takes a deep dive into the challenges, requirements and ultimately recommended alternatives such as Insomnia and Insomnium. Why are these tools the new favorites for manual API work and how do they compare to other options?
Decluttering Code with Lombok – Best Practices and a Look to the Future
Writing code can be fun, but it can also be annoying. Especially when you feel like you’re doing the same thing over and over again. Fortunately, there is a tool that can save us this unnecessary effort and also make the code easier to read!
This is how we do it now!
“Why is the banana crooked?” That’s a good question that comes up again and again. We want to avoid such ambiguities, recurring questions and assumptions in software projects at all costs. When we make a decision, we want it to be easy to understand later on. But how do we do that? How can we record decisions and what do we need to bear in mind?
From O(Ouch) to O(Auth)
If you want to communicate with other APIs, you can hardly avoid OAuth 2.0 when it comes to security. We explain the most important terms and show when and how OAuth should be used.
Monitoring vs. Alarming
The API is ready, the monitoring is running. But who wants to spend all day looking at the diagrams generated and checking the status of the system? What do we need now? → An alerting system!
How can I know what I think before I see what I paint?
Sketchnotes – the combination of scribbles and text – are an effective tool for keeping content in mind during architecture sessions and conferences, for example.
What ancient cultures have in common with software testing
By running our software through the so-called test pyramid, it is put through its paces. This is how different types of tests build on each other in software development.
Are you ready to think outside the box?
White and black box tests are well-known test categories. But what do we at pentacor mean by this? Let us take you through the tests and their challenges using an example.
Testing in Boxes
Why it makes sense to test in different ways from different perspectives against the background of black box, white box and grey box testing and what the focus is in each case.