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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.

Spring Boot & Flyway – How to Clear a Test Database Between Integration Tests

A few months ago, consultant and prolific open source contributor Maciej Walkowiak, of Spring Cloud AWS and just fame, wrote about clearing test databases between integration tests with Spring Boot and Flyway. The recipe / pattern for restoring a test database to its previous state (i.e. the state before a specific integration test has been executed) outlined in that article should come in handy to anyone working with Spring Boot. Moreover, the basic concept is generic enough to be applied to another ...
Sunday November 12th, 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software
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Keeping database schemas up-to-date with Flyway

At least ever since Ruby on Rails' Active Record Migrations put an emphasis on keeping database schemas consistent with your software's source code both during development and in production database migration tools have become a staple in modern software development. Database migration (or database refactoring as this technique is sometimes called as well) tools allow you to apply data definition language (DDL) statements like "CREATE TABLE ..." or "ALTER ..." to databases in an automated, consistent and traceable manner instead of either ...
Sunday March 12th, 2017 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software
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