Should you invest in a new SQA company? 3 facts

15th February 2019 | Code Quality, Opensource, Software, Software Quality, SQA, State of the art, Trends | No Comments

Some days ago, an investor asked me whether or not a fund should invest in a testing/SQA company. Here is my non-expert answer.

This post is talking about the software editor companies that creates Software quality tools.The investor concern is about how big is the threat of the opensource and how a company can create enough value to exists.

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Tags: Code Quality, Opensource, Software, Software Quality, SQA, State of the art, Trends

By Sylvain Leroy

How to tune your JVM memory and track your GC Usage ?

20th January 2019 | Java Development, Software Quality, Software Technologies, Technologies | No Comments

How to tune your JVM memory and track your GC Usage ? I had to tune recently some docker containers to fit the memory of my EC2. Here is a list of interesting resources that helped me.

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Tags: Java Development, Software Quality, Software Technologies, Technologies

By Sylvain Leroy

Java In Production : some useful tools for profiling and diagnostic.

27th September 2018 | Java Development, Software Technologies, Technologies | No Comments

jvisualvm2 : monitor your Java applications

This article has been written as “basic knowledge” for Junior Java developers to help them tracking their bugs in Java software.

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Tags: Java Development, Software Technologies, Technologies

By Sylvain Leroy

To rewrite or not to rewrite a software

18th June 2018 | Featured post, Legacy, Migration, Software Quality, Software Technologies | 1 Comment

To rewrite or not rewrite a software ?

Writing a software is a incredible difficult task. When the time has come for the software to know the retirement : should we rewrite it ? or have an progressive approach ?

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Tags: Featured post, Legacy, Migration, Software Quality, Software Technologies

By Sylvain Leroy

Using a self-hosted Cloud IDE in 2018, my TOP 3.

7th May 2018 | Cloud Computing, DevOps, Featured post, Opensource, Software, Software Factory, Software Quality, State of the art, Technologies, Trends | 1 Comment

I have been recently thinking about the opportunity to use an Cloud IDE for my personal coding projects.

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Tags: Cloud Computing, DevOps, Featured post, Opensource, Software, Software Factory, Software Quality, State of the art, Technologies, Trends

By Sylvain Leroy

Cleancode session – feedback

30th April 2018 | Cleancode, Code Quality, Code review, Featured post, Refactoring | 3 Comments

I was the guest of an amazing French IT company Slickteam last week. The subject was to share experience and tricks about Cleancode.

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Tags: Cleancode, Code Quality, Code review, Featured post, Refactoring

By Sylvain Leroy

Software Quality Weekly Review March 2018

13th March 2018 | Code Quality, Software Quality | No Comments

This article is a collection of links to interesting articles about Software Quality.

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Tags: Code Quality, Software Quality

By Sylvain Leroy

How to make a software developer happy ?

4th March 2018 | Cleancode, Featured post, Lifestyle, Trends | No Comments

To be or not to be (happy), that’s the question. In this article, I expose some thoughts about what could make a software developer happy in his work. I wrote this article with several targeted audience in mind : Junior developers, Senior Techleads and H&R resources.

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Tags: Cleancode, Featured post, Lifestyle, Trends

By Sylvain Leroy

Concurrency issues with Java software : useful links to troubleshoot

11th February 2018 | Cleancode, Java Development, Libraries, Opensource, Programming, Software Engineering | 1 Comment

Java 8 Threads/Promises/CompletableFuture/ForkNodePool

I am writing a new release of my Spring CQRS Module(link1, link2), including a parallel execution feature. Concurrency issues can be hard to solve especially with new programming language features.