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

The AWS Journey Part 3: Connecting a Spring Boot Application to an RDS Instance with CloudFormation

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.

Book Notes

Book Notes: Accelerate

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.

Software Craft

The AWS Journey Part 2: Deploying a Docker Image with AWS CloudFormation

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.

Spring Boot

Building a Robust SQS Client with Spring Boot

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.

Book Notes

Book Notes: The Nature of Software Development

Tom Hombergs
April 1, 2020

TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you’re a manager, you don’t know much about software development and want to learn about agile software development you haven’t worked in an agile manner before and want to know the key methods you have worked in an agile manner before and want some re-affirmation that you’re doing the right thing Book Facts Title: The Nature of Software Development Author: Ron Jeffries Word Count: ~ 20.