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In this post I will describe how you can create a SaltStack infrastructure with one master and two minion nodes, using VMs created with libvirt, QEMU and KVM. [Read More]

Well, I will not list exactly 10 things someone could do after installing Eclipse, but I always liked these cool titles, like 10 Things to do after installing Ubuntu or 10 ways to boost your laptop and decided to name my post similarly. Maybe by time it will actually be... [Read More]

In this post I will talk about the importance of connecting software components inside an application, how Dependency Injection emerged as a best practice and how you can wire components using the Spring framework. [Read More]

I like to use Maven for my projects. I don’t think that there is any developer team not using a build tool today and there is also no reason to argue why you SHOULD use a build tool to manage your dependencies. I have read nice things about Gradle as... [Read More]

In this post, I will describe RESTful web services, starting from the enterprise need for sharing data and the way World Wide Web was developed in this direction. Then, I will talk about web services and how they emerged stepping on the web and the Internet, the general constraints of... [Read More]