
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.
- Book Notes
Book Notes: Essentialism
TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you feel you’re busy, but not productive you’re stretched thin between many different commitments you need arguments to say “no” to the next person asking you to do something Book Facts Title: Essentialism Authors: Greg McKeown Word Count: ~ 90.

- Java
Optimize Your Dev Loop with Spring Boot Dev Tools
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.

- AWS
The AWS Journey Part 4: Zero-Downtime Deployment with CloudFormation and ECS
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.

- Spring Boot
Marrying Vue.js and Thymeleaf: Embedding Javascript Components in Server-Side Templates
In the good old days, we implemented web applications with a server-side web framework. The browser sends a request to the server, the server processes the request and answers with HTML, the browser renders that HTML.

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