2019-01-02
You are looking for short loading times and high interactivity for your website? Nuxt got you covered: A JavaScript framework that serves a pre-rendered page for a fast first meaningful paint and then transforms the page into a full interactive single page
This post shows how to make Nuxt even faster with the webpack plugins imagemin, responsive-loader and postcss to minify images and CSS.
2018-12-23
Some DOs and DON’Ts for software architects. Peter Hruschka and Gernot Starke provide some insights about an IT architects’s role.
Beware: when reading this book, you’ll be tempted to read more of the referenced literature.
2018-12-13
Articles, Slides, recorded talks. Lots of material to get you started with Vue.js.
I’m also co-organizing Vue.js Frankfurt: If you are nearby, join one of our meetups!
2018-11-21
A good friend and colleague lent me this book.
Although the title “The Tangled Web” gave a different idea, the subtitle “A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications” pointed to its security background.
It turned out to be a dive into the history and workarounds of the web!
2018-11-04
To be able to identify and analyse problems, applications in a microservice environment need to provide standardized information to enable efficient operations. This talk presents four areas that are part of observability: status information, logs, metrics, and traces.
2018-09-09
The next conference is near – on September 29th I’ll present a talk about Monitoring, Metrics and Spring Boot at the JUG Saxony Day in Dresden. The focus will be how to use Micrometer and Prometheus in your projects.
2018-07-18
The full title reads “Java by Comparison - Become a Java Craftsman in 70 Examples”.
When I first heard of the book I was sceptical: Is there really enough common ground for 70 good code examples? Would the examples be the starting point of an argument if you would show them to a team of programmers? After a conference in Berlin, Simon offered me a free copy to read.
2018-04-06
Whenever I start a new project, I like to check in configurations to Git, so that every other developer uses the same settings as I did. This also leads to more reproducible build.
This post summarizes the different files and their interdependencies.
2018-03-22
I finally added a recording at Voxxed Days Cluj! There is now a recording in English and German.
The cycle is now complete. There is a lot of material to read, watch and try-out!
2018-03-16
Asciidoc is a markup language for documentation. Asciidoctor is a popular implementation of a rendering engine for Asciidoc.
I’ve given a talk Asciidoctor Deep Dive at the JavaLand conference. I post the code samples, the slides and a video recording here.
In the talk I share my experiences with Asciidoctor, tips and tricks and hints to style your PlantUML diagrams. I also show how to get most out of Asciidoctor PDF generation using templates and extensions.
2018-03-03
Over the next few months I’ll give several talks about Monitoring with Prometheus and creating Dashboards with Grafana.
Have a look here and find an event near you. Or do you want to book an event or private workshop near you?
2017-10-29
For the German magazine Informatik Spektrum I wrote an article capturing the current ideas of microservices as an introduction.
It’s based on my project experience over the last two years. A free online-version of the article is available as well!