Bertrand Florat

Solutions Architect at Freelance

Nantes, FR

Joined Jun 2009

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Beyond Murphy's Law

This article discusses a complementary or reciprocal aspect of Murphy's Law that I've often observed while working on large systems.

December 28, 2023

· 4,026 Views · 3 Likes

Make Your Jobs More Robust With Automatic Safety Switches

This article delves into enhancing error management in batch processing programs through the strategic implementation of automatic safety switches and their critical role in safeguarding data integrity during technical errors.

October 8, 2023

· 2,810 Views · 3 Likes

Top Mistakes Made by Product Owners in Agile Projects

In this article, we'll explore the actions that you should avoid as a PO to ensure your agile project stays on track and delivers valuable outcomes.

September 9, 2023

· 5,158 Views · 5 Likes

Datasets Staticity Levels

Choose wisely the correct solution to store data according to its change frequency. We define here three levels that may be implemented from enums to tables.

July 18, 2023

· 3,591 Views · 3 Likes

Architecture as Code With C4 and Plantuml

A new living documentation approach for effective software architecture.

Updated November 8, 2022

· 14,633 Views · 11 Likes

Designing Human-Targeted Random IDs

Very usable human-targeted random IDs are short, only contain digits and ASCII letters, and are designed to prevent and detect typos.

April 18, 2022

· 4,578 Views · 7 Likes

How to Do UUID as Primary Keys the Right Way

UUID V4 or its COMB variant are great to mitigate various security, stability, and architectural issues, but be aware of various pitfalls when using them.

Updated January 16, 2022

· 26,178 Views · 24 Likes

Proper String Normalization for Comparison Purposes

This article exposes some of the most important points to take into consideration when comparing strings from different systems.

Updated January 22, 2021

· 11,391 Views · 3 Likes

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Why I Prefer Trunk-Based Development

Jun 14, 2023 · Trisha Gee

We use an hybrid approach : TBD (with feature flags for new features BTW) but still short-living branches associated with merge requests.

Architecture as Code With C4 and Plantuml

Jul 14, 2022 · Bertrand Florat

Thanks for the feedback. I can't fix this right now on this article because it would make it unavailable for a significant time. For now, please find a fixed version on my personal blog version : https://florat.net/architecture-as-code-with-c4-and-plantuml/

How to Submit a Post to DZone

Jun 14, 2022 · Michael Tharrington

Thanks Lauren. It's fine. I suppose you plan to update this documentation then ? It's a bit misleading...

How to Submit a Post to DZone

Jun 14, 2022 · Michael Tharrington

In draft edition mode, I no more see the 'topics' field but an apparently freetext 'Meta Description' field. Could you please detail ? is it new ? should I use this new field for keywords ?

Designing Human-Targeted Random IDs

Apr 25, 2022 · Bertrand Florat

Excellent feed-back! I have to admit we didn't think about it.

Are there some dictionary per language available somewhere ?