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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.

Using Netflix Zuul As a Reverse Proxy / API Gateway

Zuul, which like the service discovery tool Eureka and the fault tolerance library Hystrix is part of Netflix' cloud orchestration stack, is a reverse proxy / API gateway. A reverse proxy conceptually works like this: A reverse proxy allows you to route requests to a single domain to multiple backing services behind that proxy. This can be conducive in situations where you want to break up your application into several loosely-coupled components that externally, that is facing the user, nonetheless act as if ...

Using Spring JdbcTemplate Instead of Object-Relational Mapping

Spring JDBC and Spring JdbcTemplate in particular has become my go-to tool for accessing relational databases for quite some time now and for good reason in my opinion: The common way for using data from an RDBMS in an object-oriented context used to be and for the most part still is object-relational mapping (ORM) frameworks like the Java Persistence API (JPA) or Rails' ActiveRecord. As the name suggests these frameworks attempt to map data (and concepts) from relational, set-oriented data structures, which ...

Sunday August 13th, 2017 by Bjoern in Software

Jeremy Keith @ beyond tellerrand 2017 – Evaluating Technology

Jeremy Keith @ beyond tellerrand 2017: Evaluating Technology – Jeremy Keith – btconfDUS2017 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

Sunday July 30th, 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web Applications

Flexbox Explained with Animations

Flexbox is a fairly new CSS3 layout standard that allows you to have layout elements automatically fit the available space according to layout rules defined in a website's stylesheet. While as of today still a W3C Candidate Recommendation Flexbox is already well-supported by all major browsers. In contrast to tried and true block- or grid-based layouts with Flexbox the onus of defining the exact placement of an element isn't on the designer but the browser. Flexbox therefore is much more, well, flexible ...

Sunday July 23rd, 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Web Applications

Sarah Drasner @ beyond tellerrand 2017 – Storytelling in JavaScript

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Sunday July 16th, 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web Applications

The Noun Project – Building the World’s Visual Language

Today there's certainly no shortage of icon sets and icon search engines (see the list below for a selection of those). These come in different flavours, mostly as icon fonts or SVG files, and can be easily integrated in a website or web application using standard HTML and CSS techniques. A particularly ambitious offering though is the Noun Project. The Noun Project provides a huge collection of curated icons (or rather huge amount of icon collections) created by a large community. Their ...

Sunday July 9th, 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Web Applications

Espen Brunborg @ beyond tellerrand 2017 – The Secret Life of Comedy

Espen Brunborg @ beyond tellerrand 2017: The Secret Life of Comedy – Espen Brunborg – btconfDUS2017 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

Sunday July 2nd, 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Entrepreneurship, Front End Development, Web, Web Applications

Phil Hawksworth @ beyond tellerrand 2017: Dodging Bullets – Microservices for Fewer Sleepless Nights

Phil Hawksworth @ beyond tellerrand 2017: Dodging bullets – Microservices for fewer sleepless nights from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

Sunday June 18th, 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Software, Web

Chris Heilmann @ beyond tellerrand 2017: Breaking out of the Tretris Mindset

Chris Heilmann @ beyond tellerrand 2017: Breaking out of the Tetris mind set from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

Sunday June 11th, 2017 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Development, Software, Web Applications

Designing Delivery and Moving Beyond Products

I'm a frequent attendee at Lean DUS, a regular event organised by the fantastic folks of sipgate. At LEAN DUS #23 earlier this year Jeff Sussna gave a talk on moving beyond products and unifying design and operations. Jeff runs a consulting company called Sussna Associates, which aims to help businesses to establish a comprehensive, continuous service delivery process. He also condensed his expertise in a book called Designing Delivery, which outlines a continuous value creation process involving design thinking, agile software development ...

Sunday May 28th, 2017 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

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