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Exposing a Helpful Info Endpoint with Spring Boot Actuator

In a distributed, fast-paced environment, dev teams often want to find out at what time they deployed the app, what version of the app they deployed, what Git commit was deployed, and more.

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Complete Guide to Express Middleware

Middleware functions are an integral part of an application built with the Express framework (henceforth referred to as Express application). They access the HTTP request and response objects and can either terminate the HTTP request or forward it for further processing to another middleware function.

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Getting Started with Spring Boot

In this article, we will build a production-grade application with Spring Boot. After understanding the use case and requirements, we will implement the application layer by layer.

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Processing Streams with Amazon Kinesis

Processing Streams with Amazon Kinesis

Amazon Kinesis is a family of managed services for collecting and processing streaming data in real-time. Stream processing platforms are an integral part of the Big Data ecosystem.

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Feature Flags: Make or Buy?

According to Google’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) group, software delivery performance influences organizational performance in general. That means if you’re good at delivering software, you’re good at business.

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Getting Started with Spring WebFlux

Most traditional applications deal with blocking calls or, in other words, synchronous calls. This means that if we want to access a particular resource in a system with most of the threads being busy, then the application would block the new one or wait until the previous threads complete processing its requests.

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