Versioning Protobuf APIs Without Breaking Clients

Design Patterns to Evolve .proto Files Safely in Production Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) have become the de facto standard for defining…

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Exporting the Maven Version Number to a File

When deploying applications, tracking the correct version is essential for debugging, rollback strategies, and ensuring compatibility with other services. In…

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Project Versioning With Rultor

All of my projects, libraries or applications, are published on Maven Central. In case you don’t know how that works,…

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Git Tutorial for Beginners

1. What is Git ? Git is a popular file versioning system used globally by numerous developers for their projects. It…

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An unambiguous software version scheme

When people talk about software versioning schemes they often refer to the commonly used X.Y.Z numerical scheme for versioning. This…

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Git vs. SVN – Commandline Syntax Reference

Learning the git workflow takes a bit of brain retraining, but since I’ve been using SVN almost entirely via commandline…

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Overview of the basics of versioning

Why use version control? Versioning is a crucial key of the development process for several reasons best described through the…

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