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 ...

Overview: Cloud-native and microservices architectures are becoming even more central to modern applications, with Java and Spring Boot powering scalable backen ...

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 ...

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 ...