Recent Articles
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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Book Review: Clean Code
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Tom Hombergs
- November 19, 2019
TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you’re new to programming and want to learn some coding best practices you’re a coding veteran and want to confirm your own coding best practices you met a “Clean Code” fanatic and want to check out if the book really is as black-and-white as they are preaching (this was my main reason to read it) Overview I guess {% include book-link.
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Static Data with Spring Boot
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Tom Hombergs
- November 12, 2019
Sometimes we need some structured, static data in our application. Perhaps the static data is a workaround until we have built the full feature that stores the data in the database and allows users to maintain the data themselves.
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Hexagonal Architecture with Java and Spring
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Tom Hombergs
- November 3, 2019
The term “Hexagonal Architecture” has been around for a long time. Long enough that the primary source on this topic has been offline for a while and has only recently been rescued from the archives.
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Immutables in Java - Are Setters Allowed?
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Tom Hombergs
- October 22, 2021
In short, no. Feel free to jump right ahead to the section on bad practices. If you want to read a bit more on the why and how of immutables, have a look at the rest of this article.
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Mocking with (and without) Spring Boot
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Tom Hombergs
- September 18, 2019
Mockito is a very popular library to support testing. It allows us to replace real objects with “mocks”, i.e. with objects that are not the real thing and whose behavior we can control within our test.
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