Markus Schlegel
Markus is a functional software architect at Active Group GmbH in
Tübingen, Germany. He tries to liberate programming from the von
Neumann bottleneck since 1991. Markus is interested in a diverse set
of technologies ranging from GUI design to concurrency and formal
methods.
Beitrag
In 2025 we wrote a software system supporting an EU funded research
project. What started as a run-of-the-mill client-server-database
architecture grew into an unusual combination of technologies: We use
Linked Data and the Resource Description Framework (RDF) in the form
of Apache Jena as the data model and git – yes, the source code
management tool – as our storage system. These technological choices
weren't rooted in a desire for novelty. They were derived as
straightforward consequences from our requirements. Thanks to
functional software architecture principles such as simple, and
precise specifications based on pure functions, what could have become
a hard to maintain Frankensteinian mess has actually evolved into
reasonable, maintainable, and well-performant software.