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 ...

The Spring Boot Actuator is the one Spring starter that I recommend every developer add to their Gradle build or Maven POM file. What is the Spring Boot Actuator? The Spring Boot Actuator is a ...

When you get ready to deploy an application into production, the usual thought is: what’s the easiest way to meet all the application requirements? In this case, we have three components that need to ...