Database design using Anchor Modeling
07/28/17
Anchor Modeling is an approach that puts agility into your database layer. Use it to boost your ability to respond to change and deal with the temporal nature of your database state. Read more
Posts about Continuous Delivery
Scaling Spring Boot Apps on Docker Windows Containers with Ansible: A Complete Guide incl Spring Cloud Netflix and Docker Compose
05/30/17
Provision a Docker Windows Container with Ansible? No Problem! But wasn´t Docker meant for more than one Container?! Don´t we... Read more
Running Spring Boot Apps on Docker Windows Containers with Ansible: A Complete Guide incl Packer, Vagrant & Powershell
04/06/17
This is a crazy world. It´s not only possible to make Ansible provision Windows machines. No! There are Docker Windows... Read more
Running Spring Boot Apps on Windows with Ansible
01/02/17
There are times you have to use a Windows box to run your Spring Boot app on. For whatever reason - using the same Continuous Integration (CI) tools like we are used to should be non-negotiable! Read more
Continuous Delivery Patterns: Building your application inside a Docker container
11/16/16
Let me be clear: This post is not about building a Docker container for your application – it is about... Read more
Automatic Testing of Logstash Configuration
06/21/16
In the second half I show how you can test your Logstash configuration. However first I want to show why... Read more
Testing S2I Images
Source-to-Image (S2I) is part of the OpenShift tool chain. It is built on Docker and abstracts how applications are built... Read more
How to deploy Spring Boot applications to OpenShift
Spring Boot is a framework which helps to get applications up and running as quickly as possible. OpenShift is a... Read more
Using Exceptions to Write Robust Software for Stable Production
01/20/16
A study shows that the cause for almost all critical faults is bad error handling. I can back this up with... Read more