Reflectoring

Recent Articles

Simplify

My System for Organizing Work in a Distracted World

Tom Hombergs
March 22, 2020

As knowledge workers, we software developers are very vulnerable to distractions. Have you counted the number of context switches you’ve had today?

Spring Boot

Clean Architecture Boundaries with Spring Boot and ArchUnit

Tom Hombergs
March 14, 2020

When we’re building software, we want to build for “-ilities”: understandability, maintainability, extensibility, and - trending right now - decomposability (so we can decompose a monolith into microservices if the need arises).

Spring Boot

API-First Development with Spring Boot and Swagger

Petros Stergioulas
March 12, 2020

Following an API-first approach, we specify an API before we start coding. Via API description languages, teams can collaborate without having implemented anything, yet.

Spring Boot

Custom Web Controller Arguments with Spring MVC and Spring Boot

Tom Hombergs
March 6, 2020

Spring MVC provides a very convenient programming model for creating web controllers. We declare a method signature and the method arguments will be resolved automatically by Spring.

Spring Boot

Handling Passwords with Spring Boot and Spring Security

Artur Kuksin
March 4, 2020

Systems with user management require authentication. If we use password-based authentication, we have to handle users' passwords in our system. This article shows how to encode and store passwords securely with Spring Security.