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2 weeks ago | 
techtarget.com | Matt Heusser |Excelon Development |Matthew Heusser
At some point, all developers must decide whether to refactor code or rewrite it. Base this choice on factors such as architectural soundness, time, money and goals.
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1 month ago | 
techtarget.com | Matt Heusser |Matthew Heusser
By Matt Heusser, Excelon Development Published: 20 May 2025
Large language models seem to be a double-edged sword. While they can answer questions -- including questions on how to create code and test it -- the answers to those questions are not always reliable.
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2 months ago | 
techtarget.com | Matt Heusser |Matthew Heusser
By Matt Heusser, Excelon Development Published: 30 Apr 2025
The need to test APIs often appears suddenly. Front-end programmers argue with back-end programmers about where the error is, and traditional testing methods through the front end are failing. Meanwhile, the build process is slow and monolithic, making it difficult to isolate individual APIs for troubleshooting.
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2 months ago | 
techtarget.com | Matt Heusser |Excelon Development |Matthew Heusser
APIs often provide development teams the support needed to deal with many microservices-specific problems. For instance, they can act as a mechanism that decouples the business logic from the user interface, replicate application functions for reuse, or even isolate functionality for simplified testing and deployment. Unfortunately, APIs can also introduce problems.
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Mar 25, 2025 | 
techtarget.com | Matt Heusser |Excelon Development |Matthew Heusser
Imagine owning a motorcycle that needs fixing up. Instead of disassembling it and spending months rebuilding, what-if you replaced one part at a time so you could keep using it?
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
techtarget.com | Matt Heusser |Excelon Development |Matthew Heusser
Oleg Blokhin - Getty Images Webhooks are a simple technology, so make the implementation strategy simple, too. Start by designing an intuitive workflow that plans for the unexpected and prioritizes security.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
techtarget.com | Matt Heusser |Matthew Heusser
When an organization builds a mobile app, many decisions come down to Android vs. iOS. The right approach can minimize development costs and support a positive user experience.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
techtarget.com | Matt Heusser |Matthew Heusser
ByMatt Heusser,Excelon DevelopmentPublished: 18 Oct 2024 Is your CI/CD pipeline secure? If it's not, your code could be at risk. The next generation of continuous integration (CI) tools live online, pull code from cloud-based code repositories, gather dependencies and create artifacts, including container images for easy deployment. At the same time, they create a new attack vector by potentially injecting problems into the build pipeline.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
techtarget.com | Matt Heusser |Matthew Heusser
ByMatt Heusser,Excelon DevelopmentPublished: 14 Aug 2024 The initial confusion has cleared since CrowdStrike's software caused a Windows system outage on July 19, 2024. Since then, enough time has passed that a retrospective could be valuable, not just for CrowdStrike, but for the greater software community. In this article, we cover what happened, why, who was impacted and what your organization might be able to learn from this incident. What happened in the CrowdStrike outage?
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
mheusser.medium.com | Matthew Heusser
By Matthew Heusser I saw this on facebook today:A common meme about economics If you want a free market, it is your only choice. If you want to limit economic freedom, yes, there is a bunch you could do. In theory, in a free market, when someone is predatory, competition arrives. Start your own company and compete etc. this runs into problems with monopolies, or when the sheer investment to get started is too high...
