Looking back at how software was built and deployed even 15 years ago, it seems surprising that our applications actually worked. In those days, a software development lifecycle consisted of running ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Perhaps the simplest way to deploy a WAR file to Tomcat is to copy the file to Tomcat’s webapps ...

As software development teams get larger, application packaging and deployment tasks become much harder. Handwritten scripts and low-level JDK utility calls just don't scale as teams grow, which is ...

When you get ready to deploy an application into production, the usual thought is: what’s the easiest way to meet all the application requirements? In this case, we have three components that need to ...