The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

Spring profiles are an advanced feature in Spring Boot. That's not to say they are difficult to understand -- they're actually very straightforward. However, new Spring developers often brush over the ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to implement simulated annealing for the Traveling Salesman Problem (find the best ordering of a set of discrete items). The goal of a combinatorial ...

Today's applications require monitoring, logging, configuration, etc. Each of these concerns can be implemented as a ...