Technology Thoughts

The presentation below was delivered as an industrial keynote at the 16th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) held in Prague on 19 – 23 September 2022. For more information please refer to the ECSA 2022 website . Abstract The age of cloud computing presents software architects with a unique set of opportunities as well as a unique set of challenges. Designing, building, and operating applications at cloud scale has changed the very nature of software architecture discipline to accommodate a much larger set of objectives and skills. Prior to the cloud era, software architecture was primarily about fulfilling functional requirements while maintaining code modularity and meeting a narrow set of non-functional requirements, such as performance. The cloud-era architect needs to accommodate not only functional requirements and customer-defined throughput and performance requirements, but also a large set of non-functional requirements related to cyber security, compliance, ...

"Guys you will never have a chance to build the version 2.0, you have to get it right from the get-go, or keep suffering from your mistakes for the lifetime of the product." - Jiri Karpeta, my boss at LCS International, used to say. It was back in 1995, and while LCS's bread and butter were Helios, an ERP for the SMB segment, we were busy building Noris - the future LCS's flagship ERP for larger enterprises. Of course, given the above philosophy, LCS was quite heavily invested in CASE tools to support our software design efforts. That's where I learned the first time that software modeling matters. But back to the original statement above that you "never get a chance to build the version 2.0" . It may sound too harsh, too fatalistic. Well, you may be right, there are always exceptions to the rule. While I don't have exact statistics at hand, my experience shows that the statement is more often correct than not. I have interviewed hundreds of softw...

It may sound old-fashioned and laughable these days when techniques like UML are so unsexy, but I can still remember the days back at IBM T.J. Watson in the early 2000's when we were working on a prototype of a new VoiceXML browser to inform IBM's standardization efforts in the space. (The language was supposed to be VoiceXML 3.0, and we abbreviated the research project to "V-3" - pronounced "fau drai" in reference to the German V-2 rocket .) We took VoiceXML 2.0 as a foundation but added full DOM and DOM Events support together with XForms as the data model representation. It was shortly after IBM's acquisition of Rational Software , so we took advantage of that deal and got our hands dirty with  Rational Rose . While one of our colleagues kept pushing us to start coding and iterate towards the result in the agile fashion, given the incomplete specs and many open questions stemming from the combination of so many complex technologies in one piece...

Presentation held as a part of eClub @ Czech Technical University in Prague. eClub CVUT - How to organize work in a small startup? - Prague - April 11 2013 from Jaroslav Gergic

A presentation about what it takes to deliver a SaaS product as opposed to the traditional software engineering. Delivered to the students of computer science at Charles University, Prague on March 6 2013 as part of the Commercial Workshop series. SaaS - Software as a Service - Charles University - Prague - March 2013 from Jaroslav Gergic

On Tuesday April 12, coincidentally on the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight, GoodData have launched Release 50 featuring GoodData Sales Analytics for Salesforce . I took this special opportunity to look back and recap the journey from the " R1 " as we call it internally to the latest " R50 ". Continue reading GoodData turned 50 in just 32 months! on our developer blog .