Architecture for Raccoons

Christian Beck

Christian Beck

I am a software engineer and software architect. I regularly reflect on my doings and try to understand the things i do. And this little blog is me sharing insights from these reflections.

Subtractive change

Sep 3, 20224 min read

People i work with realize very soon, that there is nothing more that i love to do, than reduce complexity - in code, structures, tools, process... I...

Subtractive change

Just change stuff

Aug 28, 20223 min read

The last few months i was supporting another team in it's efforts to deliver their product for a deadline. I was a guest developer with a fixed set of...

Just change stuff

Processes with build-in defect loops

Jul 15, 20223 min read

From time to time i hear stories of organizations - or to be more specific managers - that struggle with agile concepts. One of these stories goes...

Processes with build-in defect loops

Are we training to write complicated code?

Dec 22, 20214 min read

It is again this time of the year where i find some rest to code just for fun. The last few days i was doing some Codewars katas. When i solve a kata...

Are we training to write complicated code?

Recap of the Global day of code retreat

Nov 15, 20213 min read

The Global day of code retreat is an annual event which i cherish a lot. Last year it had to be skipped due to the still ongoing pandemic, but this...

Recap of the Global day of code retreat

The misunderstanding of code coverage

Nov 3, 202111 min read

Code coverage is an important metric about your code and tests. And like any metric you have to understand the underlying assumptions and computations...

The misunderstanding of code coverage