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In the first two articles of this series (part 1 and part 2), I demonstrated how quickly an idea can become a reality using Spring Boot, the framework I have used for over 10 years to establish new services. I stepped out of my comfort zone in the la...
My last two articles (part 1 and part 2) focused on getting to market quickly using Java. The only difference was the build automation tool that I used for each example. This time, I want to step outside of my comfort zone and try something a little ...
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If you're trying to decide between AWS and Heroku, let's cut through the noise. Heroku is easy, but AWS is powerful; and if you’re serious about building something that scales, AWS is the smarter play. At Valere, we’ve worked with everyone from scrap...
I’ve been experimenting with Cursor as a development tool, and it’s been surprisingly helpful in my day-to-day workflow. It’s not just that it writes code — it understands context, offers suggestions in the right moments, and even anticipates what I’...
In modern software development, Continuous Deployment (CD) has become a critical practice, enabling developers to automatically deploy their applications to production whenever changes are made. One of the most popular cloud platforms for deploying w...
What we switched to after Jira got too painful At some point, every remote dev team asks the same question: “Do we really need to keep using Jira?” For us, that moment came when our sprint planning started feeling more like a team-building exercis...
I’ve been a web developer for years, but I haven’t touched Java in a long time — like, late-90s long. Back then, Java development felt cumbersome: lots of boilerplate and complex configurations. It was not exactly a pleasant experience for building s...
In my last post, I wrote about how quick and easy it is to turn an idea into reality. I built a Spring Boot API service using Gradle as my build management tool, and then deployed it to Heroku. But what about for my readers who have Maven in their t...
