Managing Architecture Decision Records with ADR-Tools

Every software project includes a set of architecture decisions defining boundaries and constraints for further design and implementation. It’s important to document those decisions somehow or else a development team might not know which decisions where made and with which assumptions. Or they know the decision but are missing the context and the consequences and therefore decisions are blindly accepted or blindly changed. In the following short tutorial I will show how to structure architecture decisions in so called Architecture Decision Records and how to manage them with a simple tool named ADR-Tools. ...

May 27, 2018 · 8 min · 1535 words · Micha Kops

Java Snippets

Remote Debug a Pod’s Java Process Simple steps for remote debugging a Java process running on a k8 pod: Edit deployment and add the following parameters to the Java start line: -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=127.0.0.1:5005 Also add the following port mapping at the section container → ports in the deployment: - containerPort: 5005 protocol: TCP Safe, wait for the new pods and then add a port forward for port 5005 for this pod: kubectl port-forward podname 5005 ...

March 1, 2010 · 13 min · 2583 words · Micha Kops