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

Software Craft

Laws and Principles of Software Development

Tom Hombergs
October 31, 2021

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’!

Spring Boot

Zero Downtime Database Changes with Feature Flags - Step by Step

Tom Hombergs
September 22, 2021

Whenever we make a change in our database schema, we also have to make a change in the code that uses that database schema.

Simplify

Read Intentionally

Tom Hombergs
September 12, 2021

How many words are you reading every day? As a software developer, I read a lot. And I’m pretty sure that I should read even more.

Simplify

Make it Easy

Tom Hombergs
September 5, 2021

We like telling other people that we’re working hard. Hard work gains us respect. We just have to push through to get the results we want.

Spring Boot

Saving Time with Structured Logging

Tom Hombergs
August 30, 2021

Logging is the ultimate resource for investigating incidents and learning about what is happening within your application. Every application has logs of some type.