Blog of Sebastian Häni

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…

The following describes what can be an architecturally significant decision interpreted from Architectural Significance Test written by Olaf…

Central Architecture as executed by a single architect or a group of architects has three main problems: Bottlenecks — Having a central…

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…

Distributed Tracing Distributed Tracing enables us to follow invocations across services and monitor them. We can observe a single service…

What is OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry has been formed as a merge by the teams of OpenTracing and OpenCensus while providing full compatibility…

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…

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…

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…

This is my final review of the paper Sean J. Taylor & Benjamin Letham (2018) “Forecasting at Scale”, The American Statistician. I’m going…

This is my third blog post about the paper Sean J. Taylor & Benjamin Letham (2018) “Forecasting at Scale”, The American Statistician. I’m…

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 how to do it with NPM, Gradle and Jenkins yourself.

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…

For the AI seminar, I am attending, I selected the following paper: Sean J. Taylor & Benjamin Letham (2018) “Forecasting at Scale”, The…

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…

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 idea IMHO.