Video Tutorial: Configuring Logback in Spring Boot Using YAML

In the video below, we take a closer look at how to configure Logback in the Spring boot application using the YAML Configuration file. Let's get started!

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Safely Upgrade the Istio Control Plane With Revisions and Tags

Like all security software, your service mesh should be kept up-to-date. The Istio community releases new versions every quarter, with regular patch releases for bug fixes and security vulnerabilities. The operator of a service mesh will need to upgrade the control plane and data plane components many times. You must take care when upgrading, as a mistake...

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Services Offered by Software Development Companies

Software development is an umbrella term. Most people consider it as building new software. However, it is much more than that. Even upgrading a system is a form of software development. With the business world advancing towards digitization, software development projects are multiplying in their scope and offerings. Creating and maintaining a product...

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OMG, SVG Favicons FTW!

I’ve been working on some side projects recently (Style Check and bedrocss), and as with any project I work on long enough, I got to the point where I wanted to add a favicon. I decided to play around with SVG favicons. The support is just ok (boo Safari) but it’s good enough for my needs. I’m alright if no favicon shows up on unsupported browsers....

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Pattern Matching for Switch in Java (JDK 17)

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. This sentence summarizes pretty much how I felt about the idiomatic polymorphism approach to most problems in Java until recently. Polymorphism is just a tool, and as for any tool, it excels at some tasks and performs poorly at others.

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API Security Weekly: Issue #145

This week, we take a look at the recently discovered (and fixed) API vulnerabilities in electric car charging stations, a Udemy course on OAuth 2.0, the recently released Gartner Hype Cycle on APIs, and how APIs in microservices architectures can be exploited if they construct backend calls without properly validating inputs. Vulnerability: Electric...

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Development Teamwork Has Nothing To Do With Sports - Stop the Analogy

All software teams I have worked in over the last ten years practiced some sort of Agile, sometimes effectively, sometimes in-name-only. I discovered a lot about the value of teamwork and leadership and I increasingly side with the Agile2 movement that the original ideas expressed in the Agile manifesto on these topics are routinely misinterpreted and...

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Cloud factory - Architectural introduction

This article launches a new series exploring a cloud factory architecture. It's focusing on presenting access to ways of mapping successful implementations for specific use cases. It's an interesting challenge creating architectural content based on common customer adoption patterns. That's very different from most of the traditional marketing activities...

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QA Interview With Serhii Zabolennyi, QA Automation Engineer

We are continuing with our interview series (previously we have interviewed Diego Ojeda – Android Lead at Apiumhub)  and today we have a QA interview with Serhii Zabolennyi – QA Automation engineer at Apiumhub. In this interview, Serhii shares his insights and recommendations on how to grow as a QA engineer and talks about his top lessons learned in...

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4 Ways Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning are Redefining CRO

Although conversion rate optimization (CRO) is nothing new, adopting new technologies to better enhance your CRO practices can seem a little unfamiliar and challenging. However, when it comes to utilizing predictive analytics and machine learning, the benefits to your conversion rates can be significant. Through analyzing user behavior and entrusting...

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