Novice programmers rarely see the value in externalized configuration. It's tedious and doesn't result in an immediate payoff. That means this task is often overlooked or done poorly, if at all. For ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Git has four, and arguably five, separate scopes in which variables can be set. Git cascades ...

In ASP.NET Core, your web.config file with its <appsettings> section is gone. The replacement is a more extensive and configurable system that you can leverage to simplify configuring your objects. In ...

Still using property files? You’re not managing environments — you’re babysitting chaos. It’s time to break free and future-proof your architecture. In large organizations, environments go way beyond ...