Ve is delighted to announce the official launch of its most recent tech development centre in Cluj, Romania. With over 80 talented developers now hired and fully trained, this latest opening brings Ve’s award-winning global development team to a total of 240 developers, across offices in London, Paris, Bilbao and now Cluj.

It can be a bit intimidating to write an article on TSM as an expert in education, rather than an expert in the relevant field. At first... until I reached the 3rd or 4th line... when I realised that I am writing about talented students capable of nice performances in programming, about young programmers willing to share their experience, about learning, or the factors that influence performance in this field. That is, a subject of interest for any IT professional or company.

A couple of weeks ago, I received from the Arxia company the invitation to participate in TYPO3 Summer Camp 2015. I admit having been a little bit reluctant, due to my lack of experience with this framework, but TYPO3 eventually turned out to be a wonderful experience for me, which I have lived together with wonderful people.

A few weeks ago, I received from Ovidiu Matan the invitation to participate, from TSM, in I.T.A.K.E. I had been waiting for this event since autumn, ever since I had a conversation during IT Days with Alex Bolboaca about the "unconference" concept, which I found very interesting. I admit having been a little reserved, given the fact that a "Software craftsmanship" conference had been announced, a movement I do not really resonate with. However, in the program, there were also a few presentations regarding functional programming, and I was hoping to meet more people interested in this subject. Therefore, I didn't hesitate and I accepted immediately.

The 2nd edition of JSCamp, A JavaScript conference for Romania and Eastern-Europe, took place on the 2nd of June in Bucharest at Radisson Blu Hotel.

This is our second article on patterns for Microservices based systems. See also our previous article on (Micro)service Discovery using Netflix Eureka. This article introduces Hystrix, an open-source Java library from Netflix. Hystrix is a production-ready implementation of the Circuit Breaker - pattern for reducing the impact of failure and latency in distributed systems.

Every once in a while, I have conversations with people about what really is TDD. Since I built a certain knowledge on the topic in time not only by using it but also by explaining it to others, I decided to write this article that details my definite view on what TDD is. I hope you’ll find it useful.

This article offers a minimal theoretical approach to Model Driven Design through Model Driven Architecture. It describes what a Conceptual Model is and how it is linked with the Domain Model/Problem Model. Afterwards, it offers a simple example of how a Model is created and manipulated in Model-driven Software Development.

In a dynamic world, in which business objectives change along the domain trends and based on the ever varying consumer's interest, the mutual understanding of the requirements by those that formulate them and by those who implement them represents the key to succeed in software development projects.

"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect." - Paul Valery. Clean Architecture is great! Let's try that again…Clean Architecture is beautiful! Clean Architecture is symmetric! Clean Architecture is natural! Clean Architecture should really be common sense! Clean Architecture is the structure that naturally emerges when truly applying DIP: "High level modules should not depend on low level modules. Both should depend on abstractions"