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Oliver Drotbohm
Personal blog · olivergierke.deprogrammingsystems
Oliver Drotbohm's personal blog at olivergierke.de covers programming and systems. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Oliver Drotbohm's posts on software architecture and code clarity, including his argument against field injection and his writing on reducing cognitive load in architecture.
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What Hacker News says?
Agree. A few years ago I read this http://olivergierke.de/2013/01/whoops-where-did-my-architect... post which made a lot of sense to me. Also this: http://www.slideshare.net/olivergierke/whoops-where-did-my-a...
Comment linking /2013/01/whoops-where-did-my-architecture-go/
on “Simple Ways of Reducing the Cognitive Load in Code”Submitted The Benefits of Hypermedia APIs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFWIW, the Spring team fairly emphatically advise against anything but constructor injection[0], to the point that a major feature of Spring Framework 5 was to rework the code to be exclusively constructor injected[1]. [0] http://olivergierke.de/2013/11/why-field-injection-is-evil/ [1] https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/wiki/Wha...
Comment linking /2013/11/why-field-injection-is-evil/
on “History of Spring Framework and Spring Boot”Submitted Evolving Distributed Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussion