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
Optimize Your Dev Loop with Spring Boot Dev Tools
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Tom Hombergs
- August 13, 2020
What are you doing when you’ve made a change to a Spring Boot app and want to test it? You probably restart it and go get a coffee or swipe through your Twitter feed until it’s up and running again.
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The AWS Journey Part 4: Zero-Downtime Deployment with CloudFormation and ECS
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Tom Hombergs
- July 13, 2020
The AWS journey started with deploying a Spring Boot application in a Docker container manually and we continued with automatically deploying it with CloudFormation and connecting it to an RDS database instance.
Read moreThe AWS Journey Part 3: Connecting a Spring Boot Application to an RDS Instance with CloudFormation
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Tom Hombergs
- May 19, 2020
The AWS journey started with deploying a Spring Boot application in a Docker container manually. In the previous episode, we then automated the deployment with CloudFormation.
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Book Notes: Accelerate
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Tom Hombergs
- May 15, 2020
TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you want to know what makes software teams (and their companies) successful you need arguments for moving towards DevOps you are interested in the science behind a survey Book Facts Title: Accelerate Authors: Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim Word Count: ~ 55.
Read moreThe AWS Journey Part 2: Deploying a Docker Image with AWS CloudFormation
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Tom Hombergs
- May 2, 2020
In the first article of my AWS Journey, we deployed a Docker image via the AWS web console. While this works fine, it includes manual work and doesn’t provide fine-grained control over the network and other resources we might need.
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Building a Robust SQS Client with Spring Boot
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Tom Hombergs
- April 13, 2020
I mistrust tools and products that have the word “simple” in their name. This was also the case when I had First Contact with AWS’s “Simple Queue Service” or SQS.
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