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Spring is a long-time friend to enterprise companies throughout the world. When Spring Boot came along in 2014, it greatly simplified configuring a Spring application. This led to widespread adoption and continued investment in related Spring projects.
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Okta is a customizable, secure solution that lets you add authentication and access management to your applications. Since this can be a complex topic, we recommend setting up your first project with our CLI. In this walkthrough, we will:
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Prisma is an ORM (object–relational mapping) tool for Node.js using TypeScript. The software integrates with many of the most popular databases today, including MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite, and MongoDB, and emphasizes a human-readable schema with a type-safe database client. Prisma also includes other features such as migrations, seed data, and…
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In the last post of this SPA security series, we covered Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and how Angular helps you with a mitigation technique.
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Previously, I wrote about web security at a high level and the framework-agnostic ways to increase safety and mitigate vulnerabilities.
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Updating an application to use OAuth 2.0 doesn't need to be complicated. Most of the time, your language or framework will already have an OAuth library. Sometimes, this isn't the case, and you need to find an alternative. In this post, I'll walk through setting up and using OAuth2 Proxy…
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In this tutorial, you'll use JHipster to build a microservice stack and deploy it to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). The microservices will use Java and Spring Boot for resource servers and Vue for the frontend. The server-side applications will use Spring's Reactive technology stack. The microservice will include multiple…
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This is the second post in a series about web security for SPAs. In the last post, we laid the groundwork for thinking about web security and applying security mechanisms to our application stack. We covered the OWASP Top Ten, using secure data communication with SSL/TLS, using security headers to…
Read more about Defend Your SPA from Common Web Attacks
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There's a lot of information floating out there about web security. But when I read through the material, I noticed some information wasn't up to date, or it was written specifically for traditional server-rendered web applications, or the author recommended anti-patterns. In a series of posts, I will cover web…
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Firebase is an exciting cloud platform from Google available to businesses today. Firebase connects everything from simple static websites to IoT devices to AI and machine learning platforms. The platform provides various services to facilitate these connections, like storage and authentication.
Read more about Build a React App with Firebase Serverless Functions
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When it comes to infrastructure, public clouds are the most popular choice these days, especially Amazon Web Services (AWS). If you are in one of those lucky or unlucky (depending on how you see it) teams running microservices, then you need a way to orchestrate their deployments. When it comes…
Read more about How to Deploy Java Microservices on Amazon EKS Using Terraform and Kubernetes
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React was designed to make it painless to create interactive UIs. Its state management is efficient and only updates components when your data changes. Component logic is written in JavaScript, meaning you can keep state out of the DOM and create encapsulated components.
Read more about Use React and Spring Boot to Build a Simple CRUD App
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