Articles by Tom Hombergs
Tracing with Spring Boot, OpenTelemetry, and Jaeger
In a distributed system, many services can be involved in creating a response to a single request. Not only for debugging purposes it’s essential that the path of such a request can be traced through all involved services.
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Reflectoring Review 2021 - Growing Slowly
It’s the time of the year again when I reflect about the Reflectoring year (pun intended). In this article, I share a bit about my successes and failures as a creator of code, text, and (coming up) a SaaS product.
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Be Scrappy, Not Crappy
It’s not so long ago that I learned the term “scrappy”. Someone was looking to build a “scrappy” team of software engineers to build the next big thing, and build it fast.
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Feature Flags with Spring Boot
Feature flags are a great tool to improve confidence in deployments and to avoid impacting customers with unintended changes. Instead of deploying a new feature directly to production, we “hide” it behind an if/else statement in our code that evaluates a feature flag.
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Laws and Principles of Software Development
In discussions around software development, it’s almost impossible to avoid quoting a law or two. “This won’t work because of ‘The Law of X’!
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Zero Downtime Database Changes with Feature Flags - Step by Step
Whenever we make a change in our database schema, we also have to make a change in the code that uses that database schema.
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