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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.

Francois Zaninotto on The Bright Future of Developers

A few months ago Marmelab CEO Francois Zaninotto wrote this interesting piece on The Bright Future of Developers in the age of AI and the rise of natural language developers. In this article, Francois outlines how generative AI has changed (and is still changing) software development - and coding in particular - for good by introducing a new abstraction level for programming: natural language. He goes on to explain that, like with previous iterations, while this new abstraction level frees developers from lower-level ...

Life With Spring Boot Inside a Monorepo by Fabio Mangione / Peter Laird @ Spring I/O 2025

Sunday February 1st, 2026 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Secure, Test, Repeat: A Guide to Spring Security Integration Testing by Laurentiu Spilca @ Spring I/O 2024

Sunday May 11th, 2025 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

About the Roles to Assume in Software Development

Software engineer Patrick Dubroy recently wrote this interesting article about five different hats to put on when thinking about and working with code - and much more importantly - the other people involved in the process. While each individual engineer's might differ slightly (though the most important one, in my opinion, the teaching hat, is something fairly universal), the key point is: You're not just coder. You're not an automaton merely producing code. In fact, these days, with LLMs and generative AI, ...

Sunday April 13th, 2025 by Bjoern in Entrepreneurship, Software

BuildPlan Maven Plugin

BuildPlan Maven Plugin allows you to inspect the lifecycle of your Java project. Michael Simons recently published this overview on how to use that plugin to display your Maven build plan and execution order

Sunday April 6th, 2025 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Modern Java Deep Dive by Nicolai Parlog @ Devoxx Belgium 2024

Sunday March 30th, 2025 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Introduction to OpenRewrite by Moderne

Introduction to OpenRewrite by Moderne OpenRewrite is an open-source automated refactoring ecosystem for source code, enabling developers to effectively eliminate technical debt within their repositories.

Monday March 10th, 2025 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Concerto for Java and AI – Building Production-Ready LLM Applications by Thomas Vitale @ Spring I/O 2024

Sunday January 5th, 2025 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Improve Developer Experience With Spring Interface Clients by Olga Maciaszek-Sharma @ Spring I/O 2024

Sunday December 22nd, 2024 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

The Modern Monolith, With Spring Modulith by Cora Iberkleid @ Spring I/O 2024

Sunday October 6th, 2024 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Björn Wilmsmann

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