A guide to compose a sustainable react app, based on production ready technologies and frameworks. Management summary included! — I’m working with stone age applications to pay my bills and react is a technology/framework that allows me to speed up work, bring new flavors into those monolithic dinosaurs and separate front end and back end developers/work packages. But also react is changing (evolving) a lot and the pace is…

More than a decade in the technology business. This mindset and these habits are fundamental to success. Get on the fast lane now! — I’m in the information technology business now for more than a decade and from the beginning on, I tried to optimize my working day. It was ever since a process of do->analyze->optimize and the uncertainty of life, changing responsibilities and personal expectations are continuously adding new variables to the underlying…

Step-by-step guide: Render db-data in .net web-app, create docker-containers and -network and dive deeper into the .net-docker-ecosystem. — In a previous article, I was showing you how to create a .net5 webapp with the ultimate goal to containerize it using docker. In this second part of the journey, I will show you how to make your webapp consume data from your own database and how to turn this…

Ever wanted to try graph databases on your own? Need inspiration where to use them? Check out this hands-on lab and take the first steps! — I was heavily using relational SQL databases for ages and I would even call myself a SQL-Ninja. Oh boy… how flat my earth has been for years. There’s nothing wrong with relational databases if one knows their limitations. Relational database systems like Microsoft SQL server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL etc. are…

Step by step .NET5 web app on Docker: An easy to follow how-to guide for beginners. No black magic and everything explained! — I spent a few hours during the Christmas holidays to see if I could migrate my .net5 (aspnetcore) app and all of it’s components into Docker on my shiny new Synology DS220+ NAS. This is part one of the journey and the part-time goal is a .NET5 …