Written by Matthias Noback
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on Sep. 24, 2020
This is just a quick post sharing something I was able to figure out after doing some research. The situation: our application throws exceptions by means of "talking back to the user". As developer we don't want to be notified about all these exceptions. They aren't as important as any other except…
Written by Matthias Noback
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on Sep. 9, 2020
If you want to write applications that are maintainable in the long run, you have to decouple from your framework, ORM, HTTP client, etc. because your application will outlive all of them. Three simple rules To accomplish framework decoupling you only have to follow these simple rules: All services…
Written by Matthias Noback
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on Sep. 7, 2020
I write about design rules a lot, but I sometimes forget to: Mention that these rules can't always be applied, Describe when that would be the case, and Add examples of situations where the rule really doesn't matter. The rules should work in most cases, but sometimes need to be "violated". Which…
Written by Matthias Noback
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on Jul. 29, 2020
One of my pet peeves is using the database schema to validate data. Several ways in which this normally happens: Specifying a column as "required", e.g. email VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL Adding an index to force column values to be unique (e.g. CREATE UNIQUE INDEX email_idx ON users(email)) Adding an ind…
Written by Matthias Noback
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on Jul. 22, 2020
I wanted to share with you a free chapter from my latest book, "Advanced Web Application Architecture". I've picked Chapter 11, which gives a compact overview of all the design patterns that are useful for structuring your web application in a way that will (almost) automatically make it independen…
Written by Matthias Noback
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on Jul. 8, 2020
100% done I'm happy to announce that my latest book "Advanced Web Application Architecture" is now complete. With ~390 pages it has become a well-rounded book full of useful design patterns and architectural principles built around the notion of object-pure code, that will help you create decoupled…