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 ...

Spring Boot is the Java world's preeminent, cloud-native software development framework. Amazon prides itself as the preeminent cloud-hosting service. So, it's a natural fit to deploy apps built with ...

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 ...

When we unit test Spring MVC applications, we test each layer separately from the others. We create mock implementations, typically using Mockito, for each layer’s dependencies, then we simulate the ...