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
Structuring and Testing Modules and Layers with Spring Boot
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Tom Hombergs
- May 27, 2018
Well-behaved software consists of highly cohesive modules that are loosely coupled to other modules. Each module takes care from user input in the web layer down to writing into and reading from the database.
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Microservice Communication Patterns
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Tom Hombergs
- May 14, 2018
A microservice architecture is all about communication. How should services communicate in any given business scenario? Should they call each other synchronously?
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Modularizing a Spring Boot Application
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Tom Hombergs
- February 6, 2018
Every software project comes to a point where the code should be broken up into modules. These may be modules within a single code base or modules that each live in their own code base.
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Publishing Open Source Releases to JCenter and Maven Central
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Tom Hombergs
- January 24, 2018
In previous articles, I discussed how to publish snapshots to oss.jfrog.org and how to publish releases to Bintray using Gradle as a build tool.
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Testing a Spring Boot REST API Consumer against a Contract with Spring Cloud Contract
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Tom Hombergs
- January 18, 2018
Consumer-driven contract tests are a technique to test integration points between API providers and API consumers without the hassle of end-to-end tests (read it up in a recent blog post).
Read moreA Fully Automated Open Source Release Chain with Gradle and Travis CI
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Tom Hombergs
- December 29, 2017
“Release early, release often”. This philosophy should be a goal for every software project. Users can only give quality feedback when they have early access to a software release.
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