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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 1.9 Release 🥳

This week, we released version 1.9 of Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS. With our current Stratospheric online course recording efforts, we added a ready-to-use blueprint for an operational Amazon CloudWatch dashboard for our Spring Boot application. Furthermore, we fixed some inconsistencies in our manuscript. Finally, as our complementary online course is making good progress, we now refer to it as part of the introduction and outro. You can read more about the new release in this blog post on ...

Let’s build components, not layers by Tom Hombergs @ Spring I/O 2022

At Spring I/O 2022, Tom Hombergs, another fellow co-author of "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS", explored the subject of how to design the architecture of an application to make it both accessible and composable:

Sunday October 2nd, 2022 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Stratospheric: 1-Year Anniversary Sale and Release 1.8

It’s been exactly one year since we have released version 1.0 of the Stratospheric book. The book already has 900 readers on Leanpub. Let’s make it 1,000 this month! We want to celebrate the anniversary with you by releasing version 1.8 of the book and doing an anniversary sale. You can read more about the new release in this blog post on the Stratospheric website.

Tuesday August 2nd, 2022 by Bjoern in Business, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications

How Fixing a Broken Window Cut Down Our Build Time by 50% By Philip Riecks @ Spring I/O 2022

At Spring I/O 2022, Philip Riecks, one of my fellow authors of "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS" gave this interesting talk on reducing build time by addressing a "broken windows" problem that can occur if we take (too many) shortcuts when writing software tests:

Sunday July 3rd, 2022 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

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

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

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

Stratospheric – 1.6 Released: AWS CDK Bootstrapping 🏗

This week, we released version 1.6 of Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS. The main reason behind this release is that we somehow entirely missed talking about an important topic: Bootstrapping an AWS environment for the AWS CDK. You may have already run into this issue when trying to deploy one of our AWS CDK stacks: Has the environment been bootstrapped? Please run 'cdk bootstrap' We've now added a dedicated section on the AWS environment bootstrapping and explained the why ...

Sunday April 3rd, 2022 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications

Stratospheric – 1.4 Released: Migration to AWS CDK v2 🏗

On Tuesday this week, we released another update of Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS, which includes these changes and updates: The AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) project, which we use to manage and deploy our AWS infrastructure, moves fast. Last year in December, AWS announced that the CDK v2 is now generally available. As one of our main goals for Stratospheric is to stay up-to-date with the latest tools and frameworks, we took the effort to update ...

Sunday January 23rd, 2022 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications

Stratospheric – 1.3 Released: 🔒SSL Setup Made Easy

After a minor update last month, which was largely about migrating to Spring Cloud AWS 2.3.2 and various configuration improvements, Tuesday we released a major update of Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS! Apart from general housekeeping efforts, revision 1.3 of the ebook contains these major improvements: A consistent SSL and (optional) custom domain setup: The previous order in which we introduced various infrastructure components caused problems with duplicate HTTP listeners in our ELB configuration and an SSL ...

Friday November 26th, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications

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