Sommer IT Consulting - No problem can be solved by the same kind of thinking that created it

1. May 2020 Matthias Sommer

Customer Story: Sales and administration platform for software and products

The requirement was to provide a central point of contact for all customer software in the form of an Internet portal. After ordering a product, the customer can find all documents, tutorials, as well as required software & tools in one place. The application must be easy to use and

19. April 2020 Matthias Sommer

Reduce Bundle Size of Your Single Page Application

It takes seconds for the first meaningful paint while your website visitors are looking at a white browser window as you are shipping way more code than what is needed to render the page. We had exactly these issue in one of my latest projects. Here is how we could

12. April 2020 Matthias Sommer

Speed Up Your Vue.js Single-Page App

One of my projects included building a single page web application with Vue.js. As the Go Live approached, the topic of performance optimization became more relevant. In this article I have collected everything I have learned about improving the performance of Vue.js applications with regards to loading times and rendering

2. February 2020 Matthias Sommer

Create Golang API Documentation with Swagger

When you develop a backend, at some point you always come to the point that you have to explain its interface to other developers. With go-swagger and SwaggerUI we can automatically create an interactive, well-structured API documentation. This blog post shows how to annotate a Golang REST API and create

25. December 2019 Matthias Sommer

FaaS: Setup Kubeless and Serverless in OpenShift

Serverless is a framework that provides a unique way to build and operate serverless applications with different Cloud providers. We will be using a plugin to extend the Serverless command line tool with a Kubernetes-based solution. The serverless setup will be deployed to a local OpenShift instance.

14. November 2019 Matthias Sommer

Docker Compose: Retry Database Connect With Docker and Go

When I implemented a Docker Compose file that starts our entire system, I stumbled upon a common problem. The database container is ready, but the database itself is not. So the services try to establish a connection, but fail, because the database is still starting.