Recently I read a book titled Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans. This wasn’t the first time I read this book but this time I realized that I had been totally wrong about domain-driven design. I thought that the domain model consists of entities and value objects. In fact, I was obsessed with moving the domain […] Read more

I didn’t understand the service-oriented architecture. I thought that it was just one of those highly theoretical and very impractical software architecture patterns. In other words, I considered it to be an architecture fanatics’ wet dream. Then I read an article titled Microservices by Martin Fowler, and the service-oriented architecture started suddenly make sense to […] Read more

There are three ways to create new objects in Java programming language: The telescoping constructor (anti)pattern The Javabeans pattern The builder pattern I prefer the builder pattern over the other two methods. Why? Joshua Bloch described the builder pattern and the benefits of using it in Effective Java. He did an excellent job and I […] Read more

We have just started a new project to a customer who sells widgets. This customer is the leading widget provider of the whole world so the project can either make or break us. The project uses agile methods, and the Product Owner has come to talk with the team. He is going to describe the […] Read more

Yesterday I published a list of my most popular blog posts which were published in 2013. I also promised to choose the "best" blog posts of 2013 and publish that list in my blog. Selecting my favorite blog posts was much harder than I imagined. I also realized that my personal favorites aren't necessarily my […] Read more