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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.

The Modern JavaScript Tutorial

The Modern JavaScript Tutorial is a comprehensive guide to - well - modern JavaScript. Regularly updated and available both for free online (under a CC-BY-NC licence) and as an ebook, this tutorial introduces the reader to JavaScript as it is (or should be) written today. From JavaScript basics to object orientation, data types, functional programming and asynchronous behaviour, it covers everything the prospective JavaScript developer needs to know about writing high-quality, maintainable JavaScript code according to best practices. Read more

Why Spring Belongs In Your Data Stream (From Edge to Multi Cloud) by Fabrizio Marini @ Spring I/O 23

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Build resilient systems with Spring Cloud Contract and Testcontainers by Olga & Oleg @ Spring I/O 23

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The Easy Way to Run and Scale Spring Apps on Cloud by Sean Li & Adib Saikali @ Spring I/O 2023

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OpenCost – Open Source Cost Monitoring for Cloud Environments

Some time ago, I recommended Vantage as a unified AWS cost tracking tool. As an - also cloud vendor-neutral - cost monitoring tool, with OpenCost there now is an open source solution for this use case as well. Instead of relying on a third-party service, OpenCost allows you to run your own cost monitoring service in your Kubernetes cluster, which might be a useful alternative, especially for enterprise environments where Kubernetes experience and DevOps resources are often readily available. Read more

Vector Similarity Search in Spring with Redis Stack by Brian Sam-Bodden @ Spring I/O 2023

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Testing with Spring, AOT, GraalVM, and JUnit 5 by Sam Brannen @ Spring I/O 2023

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Architecturally evident Spring applications with jMolecules by Oliver Drotbohm @ Spring I/O 2023

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Tiny, but Useful Spring Boot-related Tool: YAML to Properties Converter

Amongst other options, Spring Boot allows application developers to work with both "traditional" Java-style flat application.properties and hierarchical application.yml (or application.yaml, for that matter) YAML configuration files for providing applications with externalised configuration. Occasionally, for example when migrating from flat properties files to YAML ones (in order to avoid repetition of property keys), the need might arise to convert one of of those formats to the other. To help with that and to avoid tedious - and error-prone - manual work, there's Yaml ... Read more

Automating away bugs with Error Prone in practice by Rick Ossendrijver @ Spring I/O 2023

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