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Why you probably don't need Spring Cloud Config

Why you probably don't need Spring Cloud Config

Spring cloud config is a configuration management solution and part of the Spring ecosystem. It’s easy to integrate and use, but it has severe downsides from an architectural perspective. Also, I have seen many projects where it was added just because “it is a thing” and even more often, it was used to solve or work around problems in the software architecture or deployment for which it doesn’t provide a real solution. In this blog post, I’ll point out some conceptional issues and downsides of that project I have seen so far.

The Spring Security Oauth2 Blues - Simplicity

The Spring Security Oauth2 Blues - Simplicity

I personally like the Spring Framework and its security components, because it’s pretty full-featured and easy to use, but when it comes to Spring Security OAuth2, there’s a huge quality breakdown. In this (probably series) of blogposts, I’ll try to sum up the good, the bad, the evil and why I ended up completely dropping Spring Security OAuth2.