Spring Boot, @EnableWebMvc And Common Use-Cases

It turns out that Spring Boot doesn’t mix well with the standard Spring MVC @EnableWebMvc. What happens when you add…

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Distributed Cache – Overview

What’s a distributed cache? A solution that is “deployed” in an application (typically a web application) and that makes sure…

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Distributing Election Volunteers In Polling Stations

There’s an upcoming election in my country, and I’m a member of the governing body of one of the new…

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“Infinity” is a Bad Default Timeout

Many libraries wrap some external communication. Be it a REST-like API, a message queue, a database, a mail server or…

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Protecting Sensitive Data

If you are building a service that stores sensitive data, your number one concern should be how to protect it.…

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A Case For Native Smart Card Support in Browsers

A smart card is a device that holds a private key securely without letting it out of its storage. The…

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Computer Science Concepts That Non-Technical People Should Know

Sometimes it happens that people speak different languages. Even when speaking the same language. People have their own professional inclinings.…

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Forget ISO-8859-1

UTF-8 was first presented in 1993. One would assume that 24 years is enough to time for it to become…

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Anemic Objects Are OK

I thought for a while that object-oriented purism has died off. But it hasn’t – every now and then there’s…

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