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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, ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

Stratospheric – Version 1.1 Released

Last week, we released the first update of "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS" after our 1.0 release in August. Thanks a lot to GitHub users anthony-be, skhurram, alrawas, mygordienko, and lealceldeiro, who contributed to our sample Todo app by creating issues and pull requests. The code changes resulting from these contributions in turn are reflected in our latest update for the eBook, in which we clarified some aspects about scaling out / sticky sessions and added a ... Read more

Guest Post on the AWS Open Source Blog: Using PostgreSQL with Spring Boot on AWS

Last week, another two-part article by Tom Hombergs, Philip Riecks, and me was published on the AWS Open Source Blog. Thanks a lot to Ricardo Sueiras for making this possible. This time around we wrote about how to use a PostgreSQL database with Amazon RDS and Spring Boot: Using PostgreSQL with Spring Boot on AWS — Part 1 Using PostgreSQL with Spring Boot on AWS — Part 2 These articles draw upon the chapter Connecting to a Database with Amazon RDS from our eBook Stratospheric ... Read more

Now Available as a Kindle Edition, Too: “Stratospheric – From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS”

Stratospheric – From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS is now available as a Kindle edition on Amazon, too. Read more

Recording of the Stratospheric Release Party

The recording of the release party for the content-complete version 1.0 of Stratospheric – From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS is available here: Read more

Stratospheric – In Orbit Now: Content-complete Version 1.0

Last week, we released version 1.0 of our eBook "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS"! We hope you like this now content-complete release version of Stratospheric. Thanks to everyone who showed their trust in this project during its early stages! Here are some key facts about this project and the application we built as part of the book: 445 pages eBook with practical hands-on advice for running production-ready Spring Boot applications on AWS three main modules: "Deploying with AWS", "Spring ... Read more

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

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 already quite helpful for working on tasks ... Read more
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