Hi there 👋 I'm Raphael.
A Software Architect from Vienna, Austria
👨💻 What I do all day
I have always been interested in technology and business. My career started as a software developer, later I leaned more into software architecture and system design. Nowadays I am leading a team of brilliant engineers at the software company Moonshiner.
☁️ What I currently work on
My current focus is on MACH architectures. I design Microservice and Cloud Architectures, make a plan out of business requirements, write backend code with Laravel and make sure all of that works in combination.
🌳 What else I enjoy
I am a drone videographer and love to snowboard in winter (when the snow is good).
On my blog I share my thoughts about software architecture, development, cloud, startups,
organization design and engineering leadership.
In short: about technology and
business.
Not bored yet? Alright 📚
Latest Articles
Deploying Symfony on Railway
I'm sure you've heard about Symfony, the PHP web framework. But have you also heard about Railway? Railway is a cloud hosting provider that's a little different. First of all, it's super simple – comparable to Heroku or Vercel – and also you don't pay for provisioned resources but for used resources. That means if you deploy a container with 8 GB...
The disappearing customer: How unstable sorting breaks pagination
I have recently discovered a strange issue where a record in my database mysteriously disappears from a paginated API endpoint. And in fact, this is an issue that could happen to you as well, if your sorting is unstable. But let’s start from the beginning. The Starting Point In my application, I have an endpoint that returns all customers, sorted by customer group. So each customer is assigned to...
Your First Moves in Enterprise Architecture – A Strategic Guide to Getting Started
This guide will help you take the first steps successfully. The beginning feels like hacking your way through a dense jungle of many applications, technologies, teams and processes. But with the right tools and a clear strategy, you can cut a path towards a future-proof business....
Why the Cloud has so much Momentum these days
From an engineering perspective, the cloud is an amazing piece of technology. However, that's not the reason why so many companies are moving their applications into the cloud. The reason is that it helps businesses reach their goals. But how?...
Green Light, Red Light: What is a Watermelon Project?
Have you heard about the term Watermelon Project? It describes something that occurs in many organizations dealing with project-based work. So let's get into it. In update meetings, weekly check-ins or steering committees, the current project status is often described by a traffic light indicator....