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If you are on the java platform I have an unpopular recommendation: get familiar with OSGi. Its specs, its history and its core concepts. The learning path you go will teach you a lot about how to build systems, how to think about api design, modularisation and standards (compared to one-off company owned tech). Its almost certainly makes you a better developer/thinker.

The true question is: are the values that OSGi stands for (still) reasonable? The values are: modularity as core concept at build and runtime, low footprint adaptive services and vendor-agnostic specification.

Now, OSGi may have a poor image in the current Microservices/cloud vendor driven bubble. But let’s step a bit back and ask: 1. isn’t constructing software from building-blocks useful? What’s up with reuse, synergy, not throw away software?

2. Wouldn’t services be useful that don’t just die but reconfigure (adapt) when upstream dependencies change/go away?

3. Is time to market really the best incentive these days? What’s up with making sure software is constructed with security and privacy in mind? What about assuming your startup isn’t sold (sell and forget) but you need to evolve it?

So, incidentally those qualities are part of the OSGi values made up about 20 years ago. If not OSGi (a messenger of values), wouldn’t the values make more sense now more than ever?

What about „green“ software development?

/ Toni

rebaze - http://rebaze.com | "Developer Advocate as a Service" - Type of Engineer | Hannover, Germany | REMOTE + ONSITE in Germany | Fulltime

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Cheers, Toni

Frohes neues Jahr! (german)

i am not sjure about 20+ hour spurts unless you include the most valuable time for coding: doing something away from any computer.. coding in you head. I think pg has written about it not too long ago. For me, this coding in your head continues and gets re-forumlated, stored as pseudocode in my head until i can write down the full the implementation in one step. This way i sometimes come to 48h+ of work (including dreaming of code;-) which is just 10percent pysical hacking at a keyboard. /Toni

well, am i missing something? There is a about minute audio-only intro which just tells me i am at zombo.com. Nothing else. whats the point? altough, without headphones (i tried first) this is even more confusing.. /Toni