Tom Hombergs
As a professional software engineer, consultant, architect, general problem solver, I've been practicing the software craft for more than fifteen years and I'm still learning something new every day. I love sharing the things I learned, so you (and future me) can get a head start. That's why I founded reflectoring.io.
Articles by Tom Hombergs
Spring Basics
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Tom Hombergs
- December 4, 2023
At its core, Spring is a Dependency Injection framework. Although it now offers a variety of other features that simplify developers' lives, most of these are built on top of the Dependency Injection framework.
Read moreSpring Boot Basics
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Tom Hombergs
- December 4, 2023
Spring Boot builds on top of the Spring Framework and provides a wealth of additional features and integrations. To simplify somewhat, one could say that the Spring Framework focuses on functions related to the application context, while Spring Boot provides functions that are needed in many applications running in production or that simplify developer life.
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Feature Flags Best Practices
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Tom Hombergs
- October 21, 2022
Feature flags, in their simplest form, are just if conditions in your code that check if a certain feature is enabled or not.
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9 Practices to Support Continuous Deployment
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Tom Hombergs
- October 10, 2022
Continuous Deployment is the state-of-the-art way to ship software these days. Often, however, it’s not possible to practice continuous deployment because the context doesn’t allow it (yet).
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Rollout Strategies with Feature Flags
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Tom Hombergs
- August 29, 2022
Rolling out new features is one of the most satisfying parts of our job. Finally, users will see the new feature we’ve worked on so hard!
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Testing Feature Flags
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Tom Hombergs
- August 20, 2022
Putting your code behind a feature flag means that you can deploy unfinished changes. As long as the feature flag is disabled, the changes are not having an effect.
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