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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.

HTTP Status Codes in a Nutshell

Recently, full-stack developer Parik tweeted this slide from a talk that neatly - if in a somewhat flippant manner - summarises HTTP status codes: https://twitter.com/parik36/status/1521467121720598536 1**: "Hold on!" 2** "Here you go!" 3**: "Go away!" 4**: "You fucked up." 5**: "I fucked up." In other - only slightly more technical - terms, HTTP status codes can be categorised as: 1**: Informational 2** Successful 3**: Redirects 4**: Client errors 5**: Server error
Sunday June 19th, 2022 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applications
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New Stratospheric Blog Post on Faster Amazon ECS Container Deployments

This week, we published a new Stratospheric blog post on how we achieved faster Amazon ECS Container deployments. So, if you're running containerized applications on AWS you might want to check this out. While that specific example uses the AWS CDK in its Java incarnation the general ideas and settings are generally applicable and therefore should easily translate to other languages and environments, too.
Sunday June 12th, 2022 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications
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Stratospheric Online Course: Early-Bird Offer

Earlier his week, we finally released the first iteration of the Stratospheric Online Course - a companion course to our ebook "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS"! Having just returned from Spring I/O 2022 in Barcelona - where, incidentally, the authors of Stratospheric met in person for the first time - I can say there are quite a few exciting things in store for Spring Boot and Spring in the near future, particularly when it comes to ...
Sunday June 5th, 2022 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications
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Jude Pullen – Designing for Questions and Provocations @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2022

Sunday May 29th, 2022 by Bjoern in Design
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Aarron Walter – Returning to Your Maker Roots @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2022

To me - with many of the speakers (Geri Coady, Jude Pullen, Cabeza Patata, among others) talking about change and experiments - Aarron Walter's idea of reconsidering (which inspired the Re:considering podcast co-hosted by Aarron) what's truly important to you has been the overarching theme of this year's beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf:
Sunday May 22nd, 2022 by Bjoern in Design, General
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Manuel Matuzovic – Lost in Translation @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2022

At beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2022 frontend developer and accessibility expert Manuel Matuzović gave this insightful - and genuinely funny - talk on web accessibility and in particular on how information often gets lost when web developers focus almost exclusively - to the exclusion of semantics and a design's intent - on the visual aspects while translating requirements into HTML and CSS:
Sunday May 15th, 2022 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web Applications
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Linda Liukas – Programming Playgrounds @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2022

At this year’s iteration of beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf, Linda Liukas gave this fascinating opening talk on her ideas and concepts for a reimagined programming education:
Sunday May 8th, 2022 by Bjoern in Design, Software
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New Java Features From Java 8 to Java 17: A Comprehensive Overview (Including Examples)

This useful article on Java Features from Java 8 to Java 17 (published on Reflectoring) provides a comprehensive overview of Java language features for each of the major Java versions that have ben released since 2014. Such a list comes in handy not only when dealing with different Java versions for different applications or projects but, especially due to the examples provided, can also serve as a conducive starting point for (re-)familiarising oneself with the features added to the core language with ...
Sunday May 1st, 2022 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software
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Self-Publishing a Book With (Almost) Complete Strangers: A Recap of Our Writing Process for Stratospheric

This week, Philip Riecks - one of the co-authors with whom I wrote Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS - published this article about our writing process for that ebook on his new blog about subjects such as freelancing, motivation, indie hacking, or productivity: Self-Publishing a Book With (Almost) Complete Strangers This highly detailed documentation of our writing process not only describes how we went about writing, publishing, and marketing Stratospheric but also gives a slew of suggestions, ...
Sunday April 24th, 2022 by Bjoern in Business, Entrepreneurship, Software
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7 Practical Design Tips

Some time ago, Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger of Tailwind CSS and Refactoring UI published this article with "7 Practical Tips for Cheating at Design". While I don't think that you can actually cheat at design, design being a skill that can and has to be learned, practiced, and honed like any other, pragmatic advice such as using colour and font weight for creating information hierarchy can help with achieving some quick wins and reaping the low-hanging fruit when it comes to ...
Sunday April 10th, 2022 by Bjoern in Software, Web Applications
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