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SoftwareEngineering

A collection of 6 posts

Ensuring data consistency in a micro-service application

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Ensuring data consistency in a micro-service application

A few years ago, we had to rewrite an old mainframe application, used by a few thousand people. The application was known (or believed) to be fast, reliable and almost bug free. To maintain the level of service we chose a micro service architecture for the new solution, which means

Designing Kafka Streams Applications

Designing Kafka Streams Applications

For the past 4 years, our journey into the heart of Kafka's capabilities has been shaped by two pivotal concepts: Master Topologies and Micro Topologies. These conceptual frameworks have become the backbone of our Kafka Streams application design, offering a comprehensive and granular understanding of our end-to-end communication.

Michelin loves Open Source Software and we can prove it - Part 2

Michelin loves Open Source Software and we can prove it - Part 2

I began my software developer journey 10 years ago. From the beginning and still today, open-source has been an integral part of my work. Yet, it was only as consumer, and I never completely embraced the model because I never contributed to any projects. In this post, retrospective of the

Anti-Corruption Layer : Transforming Legacy Applications into Modern Cloud Native Applications

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Anti-Corruption Layer : Transforming Legacy Applications into Modern Cloud Native Applications

As part of my team's modernization we decided to review all aspects of our application to make our features and processes streamlined which included the data and the data schemas. We knew we had some outdated schemas that needed to be reorganized. We also decided not to migrate

Software engineer will never die

Software engineer will never die

Software engineering is a domain where developers will never become obsolete but must continually evolve, adapting to new technologies like AI to stay relevant.

Pair Programming Experiment

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Pair Programming Experiment

As part of my teams' modernization of our application, we hired an outside company to help us deliver faster with their defined processes. One of these defined practices was pairing Michelin development engineers with their development engineers. It sounds crazy to put two engineers to work on one development