New Year Resolutions and Spring Boot upgrades
Spring Boot 3.0.0 released, and keeping up with the tides
2023 is going to be an exciting new year for me and Spring Boot development!
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Developing Enterprise Spring Boot Starters
Convention over Configuration
One of Spring Boot’s main goals is to make development easier. In my previous article, I demoed how to layer enterprise libraries on top of the spring boot stack. This time I wanted to show the benefits of creating libraries using this method by developing our own in-house enterprise starter.... [Read More] -
Creating Internal Java Libraries, the Spring Boot Way
BOM's, Autoconfigure, oh my!
Spring changed the way alot of programmers thought about dependency injection. Spring Boot’s aim was to tighten the dependency chain with Spring, and provide autoconfiguration that allows programmers to start developing applications with minimum fuss. [Read More] -
Why Spring Boot Config should almost never be on the Config Server
Docker Compose is not always the answer!
Spring Cloud Config Server is a wonderful tool when developing Spring Boot apps. It can externalize all of your application configuration into one location, and even provide a layer of security with its secret store. However, not all of this is a good thing. [Read More] -
12 Factor App Series - Codebase
One Codebase to Rule the App!
Although simple, this is a very powerful and core concept in developing SaaS. Before I jump right in, I wanted to define what a codebase is. [Read More]