Lessons Learned and News in December 2022
This is what I learned in December 2022: I learned a lot about Germany’s and Europe’s energy production, using the Electricity Maps. This awesome website an...
Lessons Learned and News in October and November 2022
Because of important family projects, this article covers my lessons learned in both October and November. This is what I learned in October and November 20...
My First Week in Mastodon
One week ago, I created my first Mastodon account @stevenschwenke@digitalcourage.social and used it as my primary microblogging service, which was Twitter (@...
Using Meta-Annotations in Spring MVC Controllers
I saw a nice best practice recently that I want to share. It’s about how to handle @PreAuthorize annotations in Spring controllers. An architect proposed to ...
Lessons Learned and News in September 2022
Time goes by! I published my last lessons learned article one year ago! :D :D Well, time for another one! I decided not to write about everything that happen...
Testing Java HTTP Clients with MockWebServer
This article briefly introduces the MockWebServer, a nice way to test HTTP calls from a Java application. While reviewing code in one of my major projects, ...
stevenschwenke.de Version 2.0
It’s done. After months of working on migrating stevenschwenke.de to a completely new setup, I can finally announce the website to be online. In this article...
Getting and Using Session Tokens with MFA in the AWS CLI
Securing your AWS IAM user with multi factor authentication (MFA) is a good idea. However, when working on the command line interface (CLI), the need to ente...
Kubernetes Icons Set for Kubernetes Architecture Diagrams
Working with AWS a lot lately, I became used to drawing beautiful architecture diagrams with the help of diagrams.net, formerly known as DrawIO and its built...