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.
- Software Craft
Testing Feature Flags
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.
- Spring Boot
Testing Time-Based Features with Feature Flags
Time-based features in a software application are a pain to test. To test such a feature, you can (and should) write unit tests, of course.
- Software Craft
Feature Flags: Make or Buy?
According to Google’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) group, software delivery performance influences organizational performance in general. That means if you’re good at delivering software, you’re good at business.
- Spring Boot
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.
- Meta
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.
- Simplify
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.
Tom Hombergs