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Teams looking to control and reduce their cloud costs can choose from multiple cloud cost management approaches.

6 Proven Cloud Cost Management Practices for Kubernetes

Feature flags, in their simplest form, are just if conditions in your code that check if a certain feature is enabled or not.

Feature Flags Best Practices

Continuous Deployment is the state-of-the-art way to ship software these days.

9 Practices to Support Continuous Deployment

Rolling out new features is one of the most satisfying parts of our job.

Rollout Strategies with Feature Flags

Putting your code behind a feature flag means that you can deploy unfinished changes.

Testing Feature Flags

Time-based features in a software application are a pain to test.

Testing Time-Based Features with Feature Flags

According to Google’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) group, software delivery performance influences organizational performance in general.

Feature Flags: Make or Buy?

Let’s talk about what it means to find the one best way of doing something.

One Best Way - Continuous Improvement in Software Engineering

In discussions around software development, it’s almost impossible to avoid quoting a law or two.“This won’t work because of ‘The Law of X’!

In discussions around software development, it’s almost impossible to avoid quoting a law or two.

Laws and Principles of Software Development

Compound interest is both a powerful and apt analogy for when it comes to devising your workflows.

Atomic Habits in Software Development

Protecting a web application against various security threats and attacks is vital for the health and reputation of any web application.

Complete Guide to CSRF/XSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

“CORS” stands for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing.

Complete Guide to CORS

Amazon Web Services provide many possibilities to secure data in the cloud.

Securing Data in AWS

Writing meaningful commit messages can save a lot of time answering many “why?” and “how?” questions, and thus gives us more time in the day to do productive work.

Writing Meaningful Commit Messages

The Open-Closed Principle Explained

In this article, we are going to discuss some very important commands from Git and how they make the life of developers easy - working individually or in a team.

Git Rebase vs.

This article gives a quick intro to the Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP), why it’s important, and how to use it to validate object-oriented designs.

The Liskov Substitution Principle Explained

In the first article of my AWS Journey, we deployed a Docker image via the AWS web console.

The AWS Journey Part 2: Deploying a Docker Image with AWS CloudFormation

“Clients should not be forced to depend upon interfaces that they do not use.” — Robert Martin, paper “The Interface Segregation Principle”

“Clients should not be forced to depend upon interfaces that they do not use.

Interface Segregation Principle: Everything You Need to Know

This article explains the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP): what does it practically mean? And when and how should we apply it?

Single Responsibility Principle Unpacked

Self-contained systems (SCS) are systems that have no tight coupling to other systems.

Continuous Database Configuration with Flyway and Kubernetes

I visited the YOW! conference in Sydney in December 2019.

Insights from YOW! 2019

The term “Hexagonal Architecture” has been around for a long time.

Hexagonal Architecture with Java and Spring

In short, no. Feel free to jump right ahead to the section on bad practices.

Immutables in Java - Are Setters Allowed?

In the recent past, I stumbled a few times over the definition of the words “upstream” and “downstream” in various software development contexts.

What is Upstream and Downstream in Software Development?

Most software that does more than a “hello world” needs to be configured in some way or another in order to function in a certain environment.

Build Once, Run Anywhere: Externalize Your Configuration

Why You Should Enforce 100% Code Coverage*

To test our business code we always need some kind of test data.

Combining Object Mother and Fluent Builder for the Ultimate Test Data Factory

Logging to files and analyzing them by hand is not the way to go anymore.

5 Good Reasons to Use a Log Server

Have you ever had a situation where you stared at en error message in a log and wondered “how the hell is this supposed to help me?

Tip: Provide Contextual Information in Log Messages

Application logs are all about finding the right information in the least amount of time.

Tip: Use a Human-Readable Logging Format

When searching for a bug, or just trying to get a feel for an application, it helps a lot if we know which information we can expect to find in the logs.

Tip: Use Logging Levels Consistently

Skipping a CI build is like purposefully not brushing your teeth every morning and evening.

Skipping a CI Build for non-code changes

A microservice architecture is all about communication.

Microservice Communication Patterns

In previous articles, I discussed how to publish snapshots to oss.jfrog.org and how to publish releases to Bintray using Gradle as a build tool.

Publishing Open Source Releases to JCenter and Maven Central

In a distributed system, testing the successful integration betweendistributed services is essential for ensuring that the services won’t fail in production just because they’re not speaking the same language.

7 Reasons to Choose Consumer-Driven Contract Tests Over End-to-End Tests

I recently had the opportunity to propose the architecture for a new large-scale software project.

A Checklist for setting up a Java-based Software Architecture

You may have already heard about OpenID Connect as the new standard for single sign-on and identity provision on the internet.

OpenID Connect

The term “refactoring” is well defined in software development.

Tool-based Database Refactoring

If you are new to git and/or GitHub, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the different workflow models you can use to contribute code to a repository.

Github's Fork & Pull Workflow for Git Beginners

Believing Roy Fielding, who first coined the REST acronym, you may call your API a REST API only if you make use of hypertext.

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6 Proven Cloud Cost Management Practices for Kubernetes

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Feature Flags Best Practices

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9 Practices to Support Continuous Deployment

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Rollout Strategies with Feature Flags

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Testing Feature Flags

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Testing Time-Based Features with Feature Flags

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Feature Flags: Make or Buy?

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Complete Guide to CSRF/XSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

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Complete Guide to CORS

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Securing Data in AWS

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