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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 1.10 Release 🚀

This week, we published another update to Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS. This time it’s a pretty big one, as we’ve migrated the Stratospheric sample Todo application to Spring Boot 3.0 and Spring Cloud 3.0. The release of Spring Boot 3.0 marks a new era of developing applications with the Spring Framework. 4.5 years after the release of Spring Boot 2.0, we’re now looking into a bright future and can make the most of Spring Framework 6, ...

Sunday February 26th, 2023 by Bjoern in Business, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications

Stratospheric Online Course Early-Bird Batch #4

This week, we've released another iteration of the Stratospheric online course. With that release, we've closed our early-bird batch #3 and opened the penultimate batch. The new videos at a glance: Part I: Deploying with AWS Deploying a Network Stack with CDK Deploying a Service Stack with CDK Part II: Spring Boot & AWS Sharing Todos with Amazon SQS and Amazon SES You can find further information about the early-bird program on our website. If you want to get a feel for the course check out the sample video ...

Sunday January 29th, 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications

Stratospheric Online Course Early-Bird Batch #3

This week, we've published the next iteration of the Stratospheric online course. With that release, we've closed our early-bird batch #2 and opened the second to last batch. These are the new videos for this release: Part I: Deploying with AWS Getting Started with CDK CDK Best Practices Part II: Spring Boot & AWS Building User Registration and Login with Amazon Cognito Part I Building User Registration and Login with Amazon Cognito Part II Building User Registration and Login with Amazon Cognito Part III Part III: Production Readiness with AWS Creating ...

Sunday November 6th, 2022 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications

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 ...

Sunday October 9th, 2022 by Bjoern in Business, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications

Harnessing Amazon’s DynamoDB with Spring by Iuliana Cosmina @ Spring I/O 2022

Sunday September 4th, 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

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

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