Archive - June 2017

Flexible Data Model Design

Introduction

Data often changes. When it comes to integration, the data can change unpredictably. Of course, large vendors notify the community about the breaking changes in advance or give us some period for migration. However, if you implement your own component of a (distributed) system then you likely face a situation when, for example, Tom changed something, while you were working on your cool feature of a Java-application and now you have to fix some unexpected failures on your side. Or a customer asked you to include some small (or big) changes in the initial specifications and next day Tom found out that his part did not seem to be working.

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How to grow your project without failing at architecture, scalability and system integration

Today I would like to talk about problems of project growth. Suppose you’re doing the right things as we did. We ate lots of pizzas, had lots of fun and worked very hard. And the first project architecture design was made on a napkin during a lunch break. But even if you’re doing all of the above, there is no guarantee to reach the goals of the project. The project can still ruin under the weight of circumstances. This article is about things that may help to avoid that. It also focuses on project scalability and system integration issues.

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Fast creation of performance tests based on SoapUI project

The role of API has grown over the last few years. The growing use of cloud based technologies leads to more API-interfaces providing access to web-services. API supports this important interaction between the client and service. In this case, not only the proper operation of API methods is very important, but also their performance. Let’s take a look at the tools which are the leaders in conducting automated API testing such as SoapUI API testing.
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