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Posts: 435 from 1 Aug 2014 to 29 Oct 2026
Posting: weekly (108 in the last year)
Kind: company blog
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1 DecBlog Post When the Worldview is Shifting Large Language Models (LLMs) can feel like magic. We observe them and imagine that they work in a certain way. Then something surprises us, shattering the illusion and fundamentally reshaping our understanding. In this blogpost I’ll show you one such surprise
1 DecBlog Post Better RAG With Hybrid Search One component of RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) is the retrieval. In other words: we have to solve a search problem. Reading articles about RAG, one can get the impression that vector search is the essential or even the only piece of the puzzle. In this
1 NovBlog Post Use webjars-locator-lite with internal WebJars Michael Vitz
1 NovBlog Post LLM-assisted Abbreviation Mining for Legacy Systems This blog post shows the process of mining abbreviations and discovering first concepts a COBOL legacy mainframe codebase is made of with the help of Large Language Models. It uses Python, pandas and Claude 3.5 Sonnet to generate insights
1 OctBlog Post Generative AI: The End of “Too Expensive” in Business Software? ”We’ve found no use cases.” — No, you’ve got too many. Let’s take a look at how Generative AI will change business software beyond chatbots. What features might become possible that weren’t before, or were just too expensive?
1 SepBlog Post Java and its annotations Java code without annotations is hardly conceivable nowadays, even though it is constantly criticized. It’s hard to believe that there was a time before them. Three use cases demonstrate how these problems were solved before the introduction of annotations and how
1 AugBlog Post Here’s All You Need To Know To Start Building With Generative AI Curious on how to start building with Generative AI? This guide covers the basics, from deploying local models to utilizing tools like Huggingface and LangChain. Learn to create your first AI application, manage customer feed
1 AugBlog Post Perfect solution for legacy code This article is about people who are passionate about improving legacy systems. They are motivated to constantly reduce technical debt to ensure that software systems remain expandable in the long term. Prejudices and stereotypes in our industry prevent us
1 JulBlog Post How To Build a Data Product with Databricks In today’s data engineering, the focus is primarily on developing modular data products. This article outlines the advantages of modularity over monolithic data pipelines and explains, step-by-step, how to develop data products using Databricks –
1 JulBlog Post Type-safe SQL queries in Java and Rust In recent years, our industry has been in favour of strong typing and build-time verification to make certain classes of bugs impossible. How much influence has this trend had on how we can write SQL queries in Java? Let’s look at how typesafe SQL que
1 JulBlog Post Identification of Team Boundaries How to Identify Boundaries for Autonomous, Cross-Functional Teams Michael Plöd
1 JulBlog Post Type-safe HTML templates in Java and Rust The current fashion in our industry is to use static and strong typing wherever possible. How fashion-conscious is the Java community when it comes to HTML templating, though? Let’s have a look at what approaches at type-safe or build-time verified
1 JunBlog Post gRPC One of the main tasks that business sets for IT as an industry is the creation of effective software, according to criteria that clearly meet the needs of this business. On the other side, one of the main prerequisites for achieving the goals that a business sets for itself is the abi
1 JunBlog Post Type-safe HTTP routing in Java and Rust The Type-Safe Web Stack, Part 1 Daniel Westheide
1 MayBlog Post Where does it go from here? In this (fifth) installment of the mini-series on software architecture, we leave behind the realm of small to medium-sized systems and take a look at large, risky, and complex projects. In other words, we examine the “scaling” of the role of software architectu
1 MayBlog Post Who does it? In this (fourth) installment of the mini-series on software architecture, we explain who might carry out the architecture tasks that were discussed in the previous articles. I also present a number of possible role definitions for software architecture along with their pros an
1 MayBlog Post Communicating organizational changes with “Team Topologies” Jakob Oswald
1 MayBlog Post Automating Dependency Updates with Renovate Regardless of whether we are working on an application or a library, we always have to deal with dependencies. We are dependent on the version of our programming language, on external or internal libraries, and on tools. In addition to the actual
1 AprBlog Post Compliance in hybrid operating environments A socio-technical view Anja Kammer
1 AprBlog Post Technologies for the Integration of Services In the course of an internal study, we asked a number of INNOQ consultants about their experiences in current or past development projects. One interesting topic here was the integration of microservices and self-contained systems (SCS). Asynchr
1 AprBlog Post Tasks and activities – How is it done? Fundamentals of software architecture – Part 3 Dr. Gernot Starke
1 AprBlog Post Combinable Elements for User Interfaces on the Web The way we develop user interfaces on the web has changed significantly in recent years. In this column, we therefore want to examine what a modern approach looks like and which challenges this poses, especially for classic template engine
1 MarBlog Post Extending the OpenTelemetry Java Agent for Spring Auto-Instrumentation OpenTelemetry is great. A few days ago, I was diving a bit more into the intrinsics of the OpenTelemetry standard and the Java auto-instrumentation in particular. Dominik Guhr
1 MarBlog Post The Evolutionist Software Architecture Work on Existing Systems Markus Harrer
1 MarBlog Post Building, purpose, aesthetics Welcome to the first part in the mini-series on software architecture. We start by examining the original source of the term – since the word architecture presumably conjures in most people thoughts of buildings. Dr. Gernot Starke
1 MarBlog Post Terms Welcome to the second part in the mini-series on software architecture. Dr. Gernot Starke
1 MarBlog Post Rate Limiting with Spring Boot, Bucket4j, and Redis Martin Weck
1 FebBlog Post Rate Limiting with Spring Boot Let’s implement rate-limiting protection for your Spring Boot server without the need for any additional dependencies beyond those included in the Spring Boot Starter package. Martin Weck
1 FebBlog Post Compacted State Feeds Event notification vs. Event-carried State Transfer vs. Delta loads. How to design good event architectures for mutable data? Jochen Christ

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