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.
- Spring Boot
Monitoring the Error Rate of a Spring Boot Web Application
In my previous blog posts about creating monitoring metrics with Dropwizard Metrics and exposing them for the Prometheus monitoring application we already have gained a little insight into why monitoring is important and how to implement it.
- Spring Boot
Exposing Metrics of a Spring Boot Application for Prometheus
Monitoring is an important quality requirement for applications that claim to be production-ready. In a previous blog post I discussed how to expose metrics of your Spring Boot application with the help of the Dropwizard Metrics library.
- Spring Boot
Exposing Metrics of a Spring Boot Application using Dropwizard
How do we know if an application we just put into production is working as it should? How do we know that the application can cope with the number of users and is not slowing down to a crawl?
- programming
Modeling Git Commits with Neo4j
For the coderadar project, I’m currently searching for a way to create a persistent model of a git commit history that contains the relationships between all commits and the files that were touched within these commits.
- Software Craft
Tool-based Database Refactoring
The term “refactoring” is well defined in software development. It is usually used to describe a restructuring of source code ranging from simply renaming a variable to completely re-thinking whole components or applications.
- Spring Boot
Loading External Application Properties in the Gradle bootRun Task
The Spring Boot gradle plugin provides the bootRun task that allows a developer to start the application in a “developer mode” without first building a JAR file and then starting this JAR file.
Tom Hombergs