Frank Neff
When it comes to developer maturity, I heard many tech recruiters and decision-makers saying: “We should only hire senior devs.” This may be justified in some situations, projects, or teams, but I do not accept this statement as a general premise. In this blog post, I want to highlight the benefits that juniors can bring to the team and encourage you to find and foster new talent actively.
Frank Neff
Spring cloud config is a configuration management solution and part of the Spring ecosystem. It’s easy to integrate and use, but it has severe downsides from an architectural perspective. Also, I have seen many projects where it was added just because “it is a thing” and even more often, it was used to solve or work around problems in the software architecture or deployment for which it doesn’t provide a real solution. In this blog post, I’ll point out some conceptional issues and downsides of that project I have seen so far.
Frank Neff
In IT, there is a paradox when it comes to job titles. Somewhere along the way, the practice of linking job titles to a candidate’s (desired) experience became established in large parts of the market. This then created the now famous and omnipresent job titles like “Senior Software Engineer”, “Professional DevOps Engineer”, etc. In this blog post, I would like to explain the paradox around these designations and how I use them in the course of the talent search…
Frank Neff
I noticed that I write not as often as I want to, so I procrastinated and first relaunched my blog instead of writing. It has a new design and some new functionality, also the posts have now images. The relaunch was, for me, some kind of personal retrospective, where I read all my old posts and found out that I’m probably a better webmaster than a writer…
Frank Neff
There are (still) many people telling proudly, how complex their product is. There are job ads, explaining that you will “create highly complex software”. These false signals, which I personally saw in many positions and projects, create a potentially huge long-tail problem, not primarily for engineers, but for the product management and engineering team lead. In this blogpost, I want to point out some of those impacts of advertising complexity…