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Shaping Reality

If you are working in software development, chances are high you are working on something user-facing. And if you do this, your decisions may shape reality. But how is this?...

SoCraTes Germany 2024

Wow, a year has passed. And still, it felt like coming home when I arrived in Soltau for the SoCraTes 2024. This says a lot in itself, I think. Last...

Creating a Spring Boot Starter

You may remember the story about the fictitious team developing a laboratory information management system (LIMS) from the article about “Evolving test setup and test data management”. This time we...

Coursera: Google Cybersecurity Course

One of the areas I want to get a better background and also want to focus more is security. This not only means securing an application while developing it, but...

CKAD: Why and how to master it

In early May 2024 I finally found the time to do the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam. The CKAD is offered by the Linux Foundation. It consists of a...

Evolving test setup and test data management

One of the things I do constantly learn anew is ways to create test data and manage it. Also, setting up tests evolves every time I start afresh.