What do Architects do?
This blog post reflects my thoughts on what is architecture, what does an architect do and what they should focus on. I copied in some…
Blog of Sebastian Häni
A personal blog about things I am interested in.
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Architectural Significance
The following describes what can be an architecturally significant decision interpreted from Architectural Significance Test written by Olaf…
Decentralized Architecture
Central Architecture as executed by a single architect or a group of architects has three main problems: Bottlenecks — Having a central…
Maven Dependency Tree
Ever wanted to understand the dependency graph in a Maven project with sub-modules? Add the following to the parent pom.xml: Run The graph…
Introduction to Distributed Tracing
Distributed Tracing Distributed Tracing enables us to follow invocations across services and monitor them. We can observe a single service…
OpenTelemetry Introduction
What is OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry has been formed as a merge by the teams of OpenTracing and OpenCensus while providing full compatibility…
Setting up Apache Spark and Zeppelin
This article describes how to setup Spark and Zeppelin either on your own machine or on a server or cloud. Spark and Zeppelin are big…
Orgazining optimized code reviews in your team
In the teams I worked so far, we always opted for full reviews of each engineer’s code. But how do you organize these reviews in a fashion…
Seminar Assessment on Oneself
In my first blog post related to the AI seminar that I took, I laid out my learning goals. Now the seminar is coming to an end, and I will…
A Review of Forecasting at Scale
This is my final review of the paper Sean J. Taylor & Benjamin Letham (2018) “Forecasting at Scale”, The American Statistician. I’m going…
How to Forecast at Scale
This is my third blog post about the paper Sean J. Taylor & Benjamin Letham (2018) “Forecasting at Scale”, The American Statistician. I’m…
Automatically keep your dependencies up to date in closed source projects for free
We tackle the question of why it’s important to keep your dependencies up to date, compare a few proprietary solutions and then talk about…
Dissecting a paper's writing style
In this post I want to dissect a paper’s style and try to criticize it irregardless of it’s content. The paper is the one mentioned in the…
Facebook's Prophet and the paper
For the AI seminar, I am attending, I selected the following paper: Sean J. Taylor & Benjamin Letham (2018) “Forecasting at Scale”, The…
AI Seminar Intro
As mentioned in my first blog post New Beginnings, I’m inscribed to a course named “AI Seminar”. In this course, each student is expected to…
New Beginnings
Why am I starting my own blog? This post is the first ever post in a personal blog. I try to explain why having a personal blog is a good…