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Stratospheric Programming

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Some years ago I was doing some work to design a full text search capability for my employer. In my research, I stumbled on reflectoring.io . The site promotes itself as "Where the HOW meets the WHY" and I immediately found value in a couple of articles, then only a year or so old: Full-Text Search with Hibernate and Spring Boot and Using Elasticsearch with Spring Boot .  Reflectoring introduced me to Stratospheric ,  the work of several of the Reflectoring's authors, Björn Wilmsmann, Philip Riecks, and Tom Hombergs. I picked it up recently.  Why is a career Solutions Architect and Java apologist with 20+ years of experience picking up a book about Spring Boot and AWS? Because learning is a life long goal and learning from doers is as important as learning from thinkers. I tend to take apart books like this, not in a critical sense, but in an "applied theory" sense. Stratospheric approaches the project is a specific way, using tools I'm not comfortable wit...