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
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...
Accessing Routes in an Angular Application on AWS s3 with Cloudfront
As I wrote earlier, “Angular is a SPA-framework which means that an Angular app has exactly one html-file: the index.html. This is the only file a web serve...
How to Hire Steven Schwenke
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 ...
Returning an empty Responseentity in Spring MVC
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 da...