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Using Terraform to Deploy AWS Resources

Using Terraform to Deploy AWS Resources

Provisioning infrastructure resources has always been a time-consuming manual process. Infrastructure has now moved away from physical hardware in data centers to software-defined infrastructure using virtualization technology and cloud computing.

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Getting Started With Java: Build a Robot Arena

Getting Started With Java: Build a Robot Arena

You are just beginning your programming career? Or you have dabbled a bit in programming but want to get into Java?

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Using Maven's Bill of Materials (BOM)

Using Maven’s Bill of Materials (BOM)

As Java developers, we may maintain many applications using Maven for their dependency management. These applications need upgrades from time to time to be up to date and to add new features or security updates.

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Implementing Plugins with Java's Service Provider Interface

Implementing Plugins with Java’s Service Provider Interface

In this article, we are going to talk about Java’s Service Provider Interface (SPI). We will have a short overview of what the SPI is and describe some cases where we can use it.

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Don't Use the @Profile Annotation in a Spring Boot App!

Don’t Use the @Profile Annotation in a Spring Boot App!

With profiles, Spring (Boot) provides a very powerful feature to configure our applications. Spring also offers the @Profile annotation to add beans to the application context only when a certain profile is active.

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Deploying a Spring Boot App with the AWS CDK

Deploying a Spring Boot App with the AWS CDK

In the article “Getting Started with AWS CloudFormation”, we have already played around a bit with AWS CloudFormation. We have deployed a network stack that provides the network infrastructure we need, and a service stack that deploys a Docker image with our Spring Boot application into that network.

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