When doing web development, one of the most important aspects is to get a site performing well with SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). One contributing factor to this (there are many), is effective resource caching. In this article, I'm going to show ...
Introduction In my previous article, I showed how to connect to an Amazon RDS host by changing the security group and allowing direct access to port 3306. This works but does have security implications in that potentially the entire internet can sta...
Elastic Beanstalk (EB) is a Platform As A Service from AWS that allows you to easily deploy applications without having to worry about setting up the base infrastructure, such as HTTP servers, or load balancers. One of the benefits of EB is that is ...
Google Cloud Platform is a set of services that Google offer to customers providing different type of computing functionality, for example, Virtual Machines, Databases, Message Queues etc. These services are running on the same global infrastructure ...
Introduction The MicroProfile initiative provides the excellent web based Starter application to allow developers to easily scaffold MicroProfile based applications. MicroProfile Starter REST Interface Recently, a new version of the Starter has been ...
In MongoDB, it’s possible to preserve the insertion order of documents into a collection in a circular fashion. These types of collections are called Capped Collections in MongoDB. The MongoDB documentation describes Capped Collections: “Capped co...
SDKMAN! allows us to easily install and use different JDKs. It can become frustrating to have to change JDK versions manually for different projects. Fortunately, SDKMAN! has a solution to this in the form of the sdk env command. This command allo...
When developing any application, it’s quite common to have to access multiple databases. Out of the box, Spring Boot provides easy access to a single datasource, in the simplest case just by specifying the JDBC driver on the class path! Accessing mul...
SDKMAN! describes itself as: a tool for managing parallel versions of multiple Software Development Kits on most Unix based systems. It provides a convenient Command Line Interface (CLI) and API for installing, switching, removing and listing Candid...
