Novice programmers rarely see the value in externalized configuration. It's tedious and doesn't result in an immediate payoff. That means this task is often overlooked or done poorly, if at all. For ...

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Developers like to code. They declare variables, write methods and integrate classes together. What developers aren't big on is configuration. It's a hassle to configure an application so that it can ...

There is still a lot of Java applications out there that power our businesses. But what happens when we move those Java applications to the public cloud? Can we deploy them without rewriting them and ...

Spring WebFlux introduces reactive web development to the Spring ecosystem. This article will get you started with reactive systems and reactive programming with Spring. First you’ll find out why ...

We're in the home stretch now. In the first post of this series I looked at the general characteristics of Linux installations on systems with UEFI firmware - specifically how the disk is partitioned, ...