Tag: spring

Inversion of Control vs Dependency Injection

Background Lately, I have been interviewing candidates for a Developer role and realised how much confusion there is, still, around the concepts of Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection. The majority of people use both terms interchangeably. Probably, the confusion derives from the heavy use of those concepts on Spring, where Inversion of Control is used to enable Dependency Injection. …

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AWS Key Management Service

One of the main concerns when developing an application is where/how to store the application secrets such as database passwords, tokens, etc. This post explores the use of AWS Key Management Service to manage the secrets in a Spring Boot application. The steps followed to configure AWS KMS are described in the next sections.   …

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