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This site is supposed to be a showcase for my thoughts about software engineering, less a personal homepage. If you want to know more about me, invite me to a beer.

 

Moving a Spring-Angular-App from Cloudfoundry to AWS

24 Oct 2020
Posted by Steven

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

Some weeks ago, Pivotal announced the end of availability (EOA) for Pivotal Web Services (PWS), effective as of January 15, 2021. As the maintainer of the IT Hub, this forced me to move the application to a different solution pretty fast.

How to start a Spring Boot app with spring-cloud-starter-aws-jdbc dependency locally

17 Oct 2020
Posted by Steven

To access a database on AWS, the following dependency is needed:

  1. implementation('org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-aws-jdbc:2.2.4.RELEASE')

As soon it is added to a Spring Boot project, it can not be started locally because it will throw exceptions like this one:

Accessing routes in an Angular application on AWS S3 with CloudFront

16 Oct 2020
Posted by Steven

As I wrote earlier, 

How to hire Steven Schwenke

07 Oct 2020
Posted by Steven

This is a guide on how to approach me regarding job offers.

TL;DR

Currently, I'm not actively searching for a new job. This article is meant to be a guide for people who are offering extraordinary jobs that I would be a perfect fit for.

Stevens priorities

From most important to less important:

1. Content.

I want to do something useful,
contribute to something great and
add value
while having a positive ecological and sociological impact.

Returning an empty ResponseEntity in Spring MVC

28 Sep 2020
Posted by Steven

Spring MVC is a great way of creating REST interfaces. Many convenience classes and methods are provided, such as the Response Entity object for returning data:

Lessons Learned + News in August 2020

31 Aug 2020
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in August 2020:

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