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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.

(English) Stratospheric – Three New Chapters!

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.Last week, we released the 3rd iteration of our eBook Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS. Roughly two months have passed since the last release in December 2020. We hope that we've made good use of this time by adding a few more chapters, as well as by improving and "refactoring" some of the already existing content. The latest release contains these new chapters: Designing a Deployment Project with CDK: Building ...

(English) Five Articles on Software Quality and Design Patterns

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.This week I'd like to point you to five articles I previously posted on this blog and from which I think that they're as relevant as they were at the time. The first three are about general software design principles, software architecture and software quality while the final two refer to specific best practices and common design patterns for Angular: Writing Disposable Code, Not Reusable Code (November 06, 2016) What Causes Over-engineering and How Can ...

Januar 24, 2021 by Bjoern in Design, Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

(English) Second Version of Stratospheric – From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.Two weeks ago, we released the second version of our eBook "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS". This release contains these new chapters on IAM, local development, and automated deployments: Managing Permissions with IAM - this chapter gives an overview of the concepts we can use with AWS in order to secure our resources and to authorize both individuals and applications to access them. Local Development Setup - this chapter explains ...

Januar 3, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

(English) Using Maven Failsafe With Spring Boot

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.Maven Failsafe is a Maven plugin designed to be used in conjunction with the Maven Surefire Plugin. While the former plugin is intended for running integration tests the latter's purpose is to run unit tests. These plugins are tremendously useful for partitioning tests in Maven-based Java applications in order to make tests and builds run faster. When recently using Maven Failsafe with a Spring Boot application, though, I encountered a somewhat gnarly problem. Running mvn ...

Dezember 6, 2020 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

(English) Mock Data Generators for Tabular Data

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.Developing a JavaScript-based web front-end, e.g. with frameworks such as Angular, at some point - especially during the prototype phase - often requires working with data supplied by a back-end data source. Tools such as JSON Server enable you to spin up such a data source as a REST API server in no time with zero coding involved. However, running a back-end server is only part of the equation that is testing a front-end against ...

November 15, 2020 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

(English) Stratospheric – eBook Released Today

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.Today is the day! We released the first version of our eBook "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS". This version contains the following chapters: The Sample Todo Application: The first chapter describes the "The Sample Todo Application" we created as an example for introducing various AWS features, techniques, and best practices. Getting Warm With AWS: After setting up to work with AWS, you'll deploy your first Spring Boot application. No previous AWS ...

November 8, 2020 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

(English) API-First Development with Spring Boot and Swagger at Reflectoring

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.When I recently had to look into some of the specifics of using Swagger and OpenAPI for designing an API specification and generating a Spring Boot application skeleton from that specification (using OpenAPI Generator) I came across this very useful and comprehensive article on the subject on the Reflectoring blog: API-First Development with Spring Boot and Swagger From creating an API specification with the Swagger editor to generating code (with the OpenAPI Generator Maven plugin, ...

November 1, 2020 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

(English) A New Name for Our Upcoming Ebook: Stratospheric – From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.A few weeks ago I announced that together with fellow software developers and tech bloggers Tom Hombergs and Philip Riecks I have been working on a new project called AWS 101 for a few months now. To recap, the basic idea behind that project is to provide software developers and businesses with basic templates, recipes, building blocks, and overall best practices for developing, deploying, and running a Spring Boot application on Amazon Web Services ...

September 27, 2020 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.Grace Hopper was a brilliant computer scientist, who - among numerous other achievements throughout her career in mathematics and computer science, the military, and the at the time nascent software business - can be credited with having had a pivotal role in the development of the business programming language COBOL (which quite deservedly got her the nickname Grandma COBOL and which in turn gave rise to enterprise software and the enterprise software industry) ...

September 6, 2020 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

(English) AWS 101 – A Teaser: What to Expect and When

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.This past three months I have been working with fellow software developers and tech bloggers Tom Hombergs and Philip Riecks on a new project called AWS 101. So far and for the most part, we've been flying under the radar (the project is developed in the open though, see below) but the time has come to give you a little information about what to expect from this. The basic idea behind AWS 101 is to ...

August 30, 2020 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

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