Patrick Favre

I presented a talk titled “Breaking Up with Your Default Stack” about my transition from Java/Spring to modern Node/NestJS as my new default stack.

A community-driven, architecture-focused CodeCrafts 2025 in Vienna that felt reassuringly familiar to 2024—great stage and execution in the big Expedithalle but slightly less “wow” in the lineup.

A blog post from “n0rdy”, featured also on hacker news, investigating different bcrypt implementations with a positive mention of my java implementation.

CodeCrafts 2024 in Vienna was a bigger, less intimate but still high-quality conference with strong lessons on sociotechnical design, scaling architecture, and value-driven modernization.

Sharing my experience building a Cloud Data Architecture in AWS and diving into the general concepts of Data Architectures from Data Warehouses to Data Meshes. Talk was held at a local meetup.

Ein Konferenz-Report über die Craft Conference in Budapest, die sich auf das Handwerk (“craft”) der Softwareentwicklung spezialisiert.

CodeCrafts 2023 in Vienna mixed architecture, product thinking, and real-world engineering lessons into a conference that felt bigger and more ambitious than last year.

Craft Conference 2023 in Budapest mixed strong keynotes with a festival-like venue and lots of breadth across architecture, testing, and platforms—great for inspiration, but sometimes not deep enough.

A docker-compose setup that maintaines a Pi-hole DNS with an with an upstream Unbound recursive DNS all hosted locally.

This article provides an overview of various bytes-to-text encodings, including Binary, Octal, Decimal, Hex, Base26, Base32, Base36, Base58, Base64, Ascii85, and Base122. I will show you their respective properties and when to use what.

To find out if Digital Ocean is a viable alternative to current hyperscalers, I gave a talk about my experience with Digital Ocean at a local meetup.

The website for the guests of my wedding 2023. Created with gohugo.io, a static website builder framework.

KanDDDinsky 2022 in Berlin was a Domain-Driven Design conference that explored how software architecture, team structures, and organizational design co-evolve to enable sustainable flow in complex sociotechnical systems.

A two-day conference in Graz about agile transformation, organizational structures, leadership, and the ongoing tension between agile ideals and process-heavy enterprise reality.

As a critique of the overuse of Agile frameworks not helping working in an agile way, I gave a talk about the topic at a local Agile meetup.