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I’m an independent IT consultant and entrepreneur in the Internet and software business. I’m interested in design, enterprise applications, web apps and SaaS products. I design and develop business solutions and applications. I help companies in terms of software quality and knowledge transfer, e.g. with Angular and Spring Boot.

Spec-Driven Development: How AI Changed Everything (And Nothing) by Simon Martinelli @ Spring I/O 2026

Sunday May 17th, 2026 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Development, Software, Web Applications
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How to Migrate the Legacy Project to Spring Boot by Sergei Chernov @ Spring I/O 2026

Sunday May 10th, 2026 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software
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Claude Code for Spring Developers by Thomas Schilling @ Spring I/O 2026

Sunday May 3rd, 2026 by Bjoern in General
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Getting Your Application Production-Ready With Actuator by Michael Vitz @ Spring I/O 2025

Sunday April 26th, 2026 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software
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Java Meets Typescript: Full-Stack Web App Development With Spring Boot and React by Marcus Hellberg @ Spring I/O 2024

Sunday April 19th, 2026 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software
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Repost: I don’t want an app for that

About 11 years ago I wrote this - in hindsight, of course - eerily prescient article (in turn inspired by an article by Scott Adams) on what I considered to be the future of UIs: I don’t want an app for that As it turned out, LLM UIs such as ChatGPT and agentic AI systems now pretty much work that way I envisioned the user experience for future computing devices to be like.
Sunday April 12th, 2026 by Bjoern in General
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“Java Is Fast. Your Code Might Not Be.” by Jonathan Vogel

Recently, AWS developer advocate Jonathan Vogel published this first article of a planned three-part series on Java performance optimisation: Java Is Fast. Your Code Might Not Be. Jonathan describes how he optimised an order-processing application by addressing and fixing common Java performance anti-patterns such as string concatenation and stream iteration inside loops or autoboxing in hot paths.
Sunday April 5th, 2026 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software
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Continuations: The Magic Behind Virtual Threads in Java by Balkrishna Rawool @ Spring I/O 2024

Sunday March 29th, 2026 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software
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Francois Zaninotto on The Bright Future of Developers

A few months ago Marmelab CEO Francois Zaninotto wrote this interesting piece on The Bright Future of Developers in the age of AI and the rise of natural language developers. In this article, Francois outlines how generative AI has changed (and is still changing) software development - and coding in particular - for good by introducing a new abstraction level for programming: natural language. He goes on to explain that, like with previous iterations, while this new abstraction level frees developers from lower-level ...
Sunday March 22nd, 2026 by Bjoern in Software
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Spring Boot Code Structure: Package by Layer vs Package by Feature by Dan Vega

Sunday March 15th, 2026 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software
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