Hi, I'm

WJ Boshoff

Software Engineer, Java / Spring Boot · C# / .NET · AWS

I'm a backend-leaning software engineer. I spend most of my time in the Java / Spring Boot and C# / .NET worlds, wrangling authentication, distributed systems, and the small matter of shipping to production without everything catching fire.

When I grow up, I want to be a cloud engineer. I'm reliably informed this is mostly the same fires, just billed by the hour and spread across more availability zones. So for now I'm collecting AWS certs and quietly learning which buttons not to press.

This site is where I write that thinking down, and where I keep the things I build and solve for fun. Have a look around, and say hi.

Latest writing

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8 July 20266 min read

HTTP got a new verb and I am unreasonably excited about it

QUERY is the first new HTTP method in 16 years, and it fixes the thing we have all been lying to POST about.

HTTP APIs Web

2 July 20263 min read

I could not sleep, so I built a deploy pipeline

A 1 AM story about insomnia, webhooks, and how this very post reached your screen.

The dark mode I swore I did not need

I was certain this site did not need a dark mode. It took roughly one human to prove me wrong.

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Case Studies

Long-form technical deep dives on AWS internals, software, and system design.

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Blog

Shorter, looser, more frequent notes on what I am working on.

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Problem Solving

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LeetCode and algorithm walkthroughs, with the reasoning, not just the answer.