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Ich bin selbständiger IT Berater und Unternehmer in der Internet und Software Branche. Ich beschäftige mich mit Design, Enterprise Applikationen, Web Apps und SaaS Produkten. Ich entwerfe und entwickle Business Lösungen und Anwendungen. Ich helfe Unternehmen in Sachen Software Qualität und Wissenstransfer, z.B. mit Angular und Spring Boot.

Working Across Timezones in Remote Work Settings and Distributed Environments

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.When working in a distributed environment or remote work environment, as is increasingly - and quite fortunately - becoming the default for knowledge workers, and the software industry in particular, chances are, rather sooner than later you'll be collaborating across timezones. I'm currently collaborating with people from EDT, GMT, CEST, MYT, JST, and AEST timezones, for instance. Asynchronous communication is crucial in a remote work setting already when no time differences are involved. It becomes absolutely ...

30. Mai 2021 by Bjoern in Business, Entrepreneurship, Software

Push Notifications with Amazon MQ – Sample From “Stratospheric – From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS”

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.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 ...

16. Mai 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

Blogumentation Revisited

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Some time ago I wrote about a process called "blogumentation": Derived from the insight that arguably the best way to learn something and to internalise knowledge is to write about it and to try and explain that knowledge to others, blogumentation essentially means writing about a subject matter (e.g. a solution to a particular programming problem or a new practice you've just learned about) that you consider worth documenting and publishing the result. It means ...

9. Mai 2021 by Bjoern in Software

CORS: What It Is and How It Works

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Expanding on last week's article on best practices for REST API Design I'd like to point to a specific aspect working REST APIs frequently entails: A browser security feature called "Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)". This feature allows you to define which resources provided by a web application are supposed to be accessible from which origin, which in turn typically is comprised of protocol, host / domain name and port. This website's origin for example is ...

2. Mai 2021 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

REST API Design: Best Practices

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.It's probably safe to say that REST (REpresentational State Transfer - originally described by Roy Fielding) is the most widely used architectural pattern when it comes to APIs in web application contexts. From statelessness, to self-descriptive messages, and hypermedia as the engine of application state (HATEOAS) REST comes with quite a few principles, constraints, patterns, and flavours, not all of which are used or applied consistently with each REST API. REST often is a rather ...

25. April 2021 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applikation

Stratospheric – Almost in Orbit: Three More Chapters Available

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.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 ...

18. April 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

A Simple Yet Powerful Tool: Decision Tables

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.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, ...

11. April 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Cloudcraft – Cloud Architecture Diagrams and Visualisations

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.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 ...

4. April 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

Vantage – A Unified AWS Console

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.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 ...

28. März 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

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Reden wir über Digitales.

Working Across Timezones in Remote Work Settings and Distributed Environments

Blogumentation Revisited

CORS: What It Is and How It Works

REST API Design: Best Practices

A Simple Yet Powerful Tool: Decision Tables