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React has gained a lot of popularity over the last few years, and Redux is a term often heard in combination with it. While technically separate concepts, they do work quite nicely together. React is a component-based framework, often used to create a Single-Page App (SPA), but can also be…
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Do you need to build a REST API with ASP.NET Web API? If you're creating a new API, you should probably create it with .NET Core. But it's not always possible to use the latest and greatest technologies. If you're working in an existing ASP.NET 4.x app, or the organization…
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When building a web application, authentication and authorization is a must. Doing it right, however, is not simple. Computer security is a true specialty. Legions of developers work day and night against equally numerous international hackers creating a continual development cycle of finding vulnerabilities, attacking them, and fixing them. Keeping…
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I am a long-time relational database nerd, specifically SQL Server. At times in my career, I've focused on database design, deployments, migrations, administration, query optimization, and carefully crafting stored procedures, triggers, and views.
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Interested in building a secure ASP.NET MVC website that allows users to handle their own data with ease? Let's walk through creating a basic application that allows the creation, reading, updating, and deletion of data (CRUD) with Entity Framework by your users while managing them easily with Okta. For a…
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REST APIs are the backbone of modern web development. Most web applications these days are developed as single-page applications on the frontend, connected to backend APIs written in various languages. There are many great frameworks that can help you build REST APIs quickly. Laravel/Lumen and Symfony's API platform are the…
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Building a microservices architecture is possible with minimal code if you use Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring Cloud Config. Package everything up in Docker containers and you can run everything using Docker Compose. If you're communicating between services, you can ensure your services are somewhat secure by not exposing…
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In 2019, it's quite easy to find React components for pretty much everything. For example, if you want to add user authentication to your app, you can do so easily with Okta's React component. Here I'll walk you through creating a simple, fun React app that fetches random Chuck Norris…
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Spring Boot 1.5.x made it easier than ever before to integrate Spring Security with OAuth 2.0 into your application. Spring Boot 2.1.x dials it up to 11 by making OpenID Connect a first class citizen in the stack.
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Developers love to automate things. It's what we do for a living for the most part. We create programs that take the tediousness out of tasks. I do a lot of presentations and live demos. Over the past year, I've noticed that some of my demos have too many steps…
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In this post, you'll learn about microservices architecture and how to implement it using Spring Boot. After creating some projects with the technique, you will deploy the artifacts as Docker containers and will simulate a container orchestrator (such as Kubernetes) using Docker Compose for simplification. The icing on the cake…
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Storage as a Service (SaaS) is becoming ever more popular with many businesses. The advantages are clear. Instead of maintaining your own backend server you can outsource the service to a different provider. This can result in a significant increase in productivity, as well as a reduction in development and…
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