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 an opinionated, cloud-native, software development framework that's purpose-built to create microservices and 12-factor apps. In other words, Spring Boot encourages container-based ...

HTMX is a newer technology that takes plain old HTML and gives it extra powers like Ajax and DOM swaps. It’s included in my personal list of good ideas because it eliminates a whole realm of ...

There are very good reasons for Java’s long-lived popularity as a server-side platform. It combines unbeatable maturity and breadth with a long and ongoing history of innovation. Using Spring adds a ...

Microsoft announced Spring Boot improvements in the latest update to Java on Visual Studio Code tooling. That tooling comes in the Spring Boot Extension Pack in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace, ...