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.
- Meta
Two Years of AI Changed 20 Years of Habits
This article is my contribution to Pragmatic Engineer’s essay challenge about how AI changed the way I work in the context of my work at Atlassian.
- Spring
Spring Basics
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.
- Spring
Spring Boot Basics
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.
- Software Craft
Feature Flags Best Practices
Feature flags, in their simplest form, are just if conditions in your code that check if a certain feature is enabled or not.
- Software Craft
9 Practices to Support Continuous Deployment
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).
- Software Craft
Rollout Strategies with Feature Flags
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!
Tom Hombergs