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The 5th edition of CodeCrafts in Vienna. A focused conference about building software systems that still make sense when the hype is gone.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vienna CodeCrafts 2022 was a strong first-time, single-day Vienna conference by SQUER that gathered 600+ attendees for a single-track program blending deep technical talks with practical software-craft mindset and networking.

Maintaining Checkstyle configs in a multi-repo project can be a chore. Let maven help you to create a global one.

This was originally posted as an answer to the question “Java: convert a byte array to a hex string?” on stackoverflow.com.

This was originally posted as an answer to the question “Spring WebFlux differences when Netty vs. Tomcat is used under the hood” on stackoverflow.com.

goto; Amsterdam 2019 was a well-organized software development conference with strong speakers, practical tech talks, and an interesting after party.

A new approach on protecting your internal IDs with a strong cryptographic schema and many other useful features. Inspired by HashIds.

This was originally posted as an answer to the question “Java String to SHA1” on stackoverflow.com.