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Steven Schwenke

My Name is Steven Schwenke. I am a passionate software craftsman and love to share my experiences.

Developer on the Stage Newsletter 3

Welcome to the 3rd newsletter for my upcoming book “Developer on the Stage”! In the last weeks, a lot has been going on. Here are the most important facts an...

Lessons Learned + News in April 2021

Lessons Learned + News in April 2021

This is what I learned in April 2021: I found the Gingko-App that lets you create outlines for articles and books easily. I like the keyboard navigation...

Developer on the Stage newsletter 2

Welcome to the second newsletter for my upcoming book “Developer on the Stage” that will guide software developers to their first successful talk. In the la...

Lessons Learned and News in March 2021

Lessons Learned and News in March 2021

This is what I learned in March 2021: My colleague Sönke gave a great introduction to AWS CDK at the most recent HackTalk. The Cloud Development Kit is a...

Four Examples of Great Marketing in Software Development

I’m not a marketing guy. Actually, there are some issues involving me that would qualify as anti-marketing. However, I know some awesome things I perceive as...

Developer on the Stage Newsletter 1

Kind of sneakily, I mentioned before that I’m about to publish a book. It is called “Developer on the Stage”. This book will guide you through your very firs...

Lessons Learned and News in September and October 2020

Lessons Learned and News in September and October 2020

This is what I learned in September and October 2020: I wrote an article how to return an empty response entity in Spring MVC. Life gave me some intere...

Moving a Spring-Angular-App from Cloudfoundry to AWS

Recently, I moved the IT Hub from Pivotal Cloudfoundry to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This article highlights some of the decisions and illustrates the result...

How to Start a Spring Boot App with spring-cloud-starter-aws-jdbc dependency locally

To access a database on AWS, the following dependency is needed: implementation('org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-aws-jdbc:2.2.4.RELEASE') As...