Tom Hombergs

Simplicity nerd. Engineer @Atlassian. Occasional writer. Book: Newsletter:

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The 2nd edition of "Get Your Hands Dirty ond Clean Architecture" is out now! Find all versions of the book on https://t.co/Wo9ynf9j1E.

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@simas_ch But did it help you to roll out the database changes safely (i.e. in multie deployments with multiple backward-compatible versions of the code)? I'm curious, because I'm currently doing a database migration that touches a central entity in our app.

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@vlad_mihalcea Effizienzoptimierung

[John Crickett @johncrickett]

Software engineers: Context switching kills productivity.

Also software engineers: I'm now managing 19 AI agents and doing 1800 commits a day.

We’ve spent years complaining that managers who expect a quick 5-minute chat ruin our focus for the next hour. But a ping from an agent every few minutes, that’s ok?

We celebrated Paul Graham’s essay “Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule” in which he argued:

“When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in.”

Now we see software engineers claiming huge productivity gains from hordes of AI agents, celebrating thousands of commits per day from their 19 agents.

Either context switching was never really the problem, and we oversold our need for deep focus. Or we're not actually reviewing 1800 commits a day.

If we couldn't context switch before, we're not managing 19 agents. We're blindly trusting them.

That’s not engineering, it’s gambling.

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@kylewelch What do the numbers mean, though?

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@springrod @spring_io @sergialmar Indeed! The only conference for which I gladly spend 2 days in a plane travelling all the way from Sydney. Hope to see everyone again next year!

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I'm excited to be speaking at Spring I/O 2025 on May 23 about how to sell (software) maintainability. See you there? #springio25

[Darlene Pike @darlenepike]

Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.

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@simas_ch It's also harder, sadly 😪

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@sergialmar Happy Birthday! You still look young enough for me to confuse you with your your younger brother! 😀

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@nele_lea @bsansouci Did you get to see the bridge or was it shrouded in mist? I was in SF (the first time ever) a couple weeks ago so we just missed each other. When I went to see the bridge, it wasn't there...

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This.

[Wim Deblauwe @wimdeblauwe]

Solution 4: use a full-stack framework like Spring Boot with Thymeleaf and htmx (or Laravel, or Ruby on Rails or …)

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Watch my talk about Platform Engineering with Spring Boot for me so I don't have to (I hate watching myself) :)

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🍃 Platform Engineering with Spring Boot by @TomHombergs @ Spring I/O 2024

▶️ Video: https://t.co/kxSKDnRa8c

🔗Slides: https://t.co/GuslNCIKZs #springio24

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@lorenzo_bettini Your name is still in it since you reviewed the english version 😀

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Look what was in the mail today!

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German edition now available at https://t.co/adCpK3WteC

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The Spring I/O 2024 pictures are live! 📸 Check out all the amazing moments we captured. Relive the excitement and see if you can spot yourself! #springio24

https://t.co/uv5ZZiH30K

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@rieckpil Nice! I'm still waiting for my copy. It will also be published in Japanese in July, if you want the full collection 😀

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Relaxing in the airport lounge after @spring_io. I'm sad it's over, but it could be worse 😄

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@spring_io was a great event again (as always). My favorite conference by a great margin! Big thanks to @sergialmar and the team for making it happen and caring for speakers and attendees alike.

Find the slides of my talk here: https://t.co/wBTtHd0fwh

[Sergi Almar 🍃 @sergialmar]

What an amazing crowd! One more year finishing @spring_io with the classical bike & wine. #springio24