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
Reactive Multi-Threading with RxJava - Pitfalls and Solutions
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Tom Hombergs
- February 3, 2020
I recently had a rough time refactoring a multi-threaded, reactive message processor. It just didn’t seem to be working the way I expected.
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Book Review: Atomic Habits
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Tom Hombergs
- January 18, 2020
TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you want to raise your awareness of your habits you are looking for a framework to help in starting or stopping habits you enjoy real-world stories about habits Overview {% include book-link.
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On Blogging, Writing, and Habits: This Was 2019
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Tom Hombergs
- January 11, 2020
There it is. 2019 is gone. 2020 is here. I feel old. As I did last year, I take this time to reflect on my year 2019 and to set some plans for 2020.
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One-Stop Guide to Profiles with Spring Boot
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Tom Hombergs
- January 2, 2020
Spring provides a mighty tool for grouping configuration properties into so-called profiles, allowing us to activate a bunch of configurations with a single profile parameter.
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Insights from YOW! 2019
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Tom Hombergs
- December 12, 2019
I visited the YOW! conference in Sydney in December 2019. What better way to persist what I learned than in a blog post?
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Executing Code on Spring Boot Application Startup
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Tom Hombergs
- December 2, 2019
Sometimes we just need to run a snippet of code on application startup, be it only to log that a certain bean has loaded or the application is ready to process requests.
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