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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.

Stratospheric – In Orbit Now: Content-complete Version 1.0

Last week, we released version 1.0 of our eBook "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS"! We hope you like this now content-complete release version of Stratospheric. Thanks to everyone who showed their trust in this project during its early stages! Here are some key facts about this project and the application we built as part of the book: 445 pages eBook with practical hands-on advice for running production-ready Spring Boot applications on AWS three main modules: "Deploying with AWS", "Spring ...
Sunday August 8th, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications
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A Catalogue of Design Patterns

Recently, I came across this well-structured as well as visually appealing catalogue of software design patterns on Refactoring.Guru. The subject of design patterns can be a somewhat dry, unwieldy one. Hence, using visuals and metaphors can come in handy when explaining both the general idea behind design patterns and specific patterns alongside with their use cases. Refactoring.Guru does a great job not only at explaining the origin and purpose of and rationale behind design patterns and pattern languages but also at describing each ...
Sunday August 1st, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software
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A Collection of for a Improving the UX of Signup  and  Login Workflows

Independent UX designer Erik D. Kennedy recently published an article with 15 Tips for Better Signup / Login UX on Learn UI Design - a website through which he provides acclaimed courses on both UI and UX design. The article lists general suggestions such as autofocusing on the first field (i.e. the username, or rather: email, field), immediately validating form values, or making input labels clickable, as well as more specific - but no less expedient - ones like making password requirements explicit to ...
Sunday July 11th, 2021 by Bjoern in Design, Enterprise Software, Front End Development, Software, Web Applications
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Cloud Design Patterns

In the past few months, I've been working a lot with distributed applications and more complex cloud architectures, both in terms of Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS (the eBook I'm currently writing together with Tom Hombergs and Philip Riecks) and client work. Microsoft's library of Cloud Design Patterns (as previously mentioned in this blog post) is a collection of cloud-related software and infrastructure design patterns that can help you with weighing up the merits of common ...
Sunday May 23rd, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications
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Push Notifications with Amazon MQ – Sample From “Stratospheric – From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS”

The following is an excerpt from the chapter on "Push Notifications with Amazon MQ" from the eBook "Stratospheric – From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS" I'm currently writing together with Tom Hombergs and Philip Riecks. You can get the eBook over at Leanpub. Push Notifications With Amazon MQ As discussed in the chapter "Sharing Todos with SQS and SES" we might want to share our Todos with others. Being able to share Todos is already quite helpful for working on tasks ...
Sunday May 16th, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications
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Stratospheric – Almost in Orbit: Three More Chapters Available

Last week, we released the fourth version of of our eBook "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS"! Again, about two months have passed since the last release in February 2021. We hope that you like the new content we've been working on during that time. These are the new chapters you'll get with the latest update: ​ Building a Continuous Deployment Pipeline: Software delivery performance is highly correlated with organizational performance, so we'll want to deploy often. That means ...
Sunday April 18th, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications
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A Simple Yet Powerful Tool: Decision Tables

Decision tables are a tool for specifying which actions to perform given a number of conditions. They represent business logic in terms of rules for connecting actions with required conditions for those actions. While they might appear deceptively simple and trivial they can be a tremendously powerful tool for defining business logic and certain types of software requirements. This article on Decision Table Patterns by Hillel Wayne describes the general concept as well as patterns, techniques, and best practices for using decision ...
Sunday April 11th, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software
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Cloudcraft – Cloud Architecture Diagrams and Visualisations

After recently having written about AWS cloud visualisation and management tools such as CloudMapper and Vantage I was made aware of yet another such tool by Sebastian Reuße: Cloudcraft allows you to not only visualise your AWS cloud architecture with beautiful as well as somewhat playful isometric infrastructure diagrams reminiscent of turn-based strategy games but also provides live connectivity with your actual AWS infrastructure and so-called "smart" components. Using these features you don't have to manually draw and recreate your existing infrastructure in ...
Sunday April 4th, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications
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Vantage – A Unified AWS Console

In last week's blog post I casually mentioned that out-of-the-box with AWS there's no single unified console providing you with an overview of your deployed infrastructure. Thankfully, there's Vantage - a centralized dashboard that provides you with such an overview and cost transparency across AWS regions and accounts through views, global search, and actionable insights. Up to $500 in monthly AWS spend Vantage is free. Beyond that there are Pro and Business plans at a monthly price of $50 and $250, respectively.
Sunday March 28th, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications
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CloudMapper: An AWS Visualisation Tool

CloudMapper is an AWS visualisation tool that's highly useful for getting an overview of your AWS infrastructure and network setup. Depending on the number of services, instances, VPCs, and subnets used, getting lost is quite easy, especially when considering that out-of-the-box with AWS there's no single unified console from which to get an overview of your deployed resources but rather a multitude of consoles, one for each AWS service. Therefore, keeping track of your infrastructure and keeping your costs in check can be ...
Sunday March 21st, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, General, Software, Web Applications
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