When I joined campus for my Computer Science degree studies, I had many expectations. One of those expectations was that we would primarily learn how to program a computer — we all thought so. However, as soon as I had joined, I realized that that was not the case. Why…

HTTP Methods define the action desired to be performed on a given resource. They are also referred to as HTTP Verbs. Some HTTP methods are safe. It means that they should do not have significance of taking an action other than retrieval. Examples include GET and HEAD. A method is…

According to the HTTP RFC, HTTP is a stateless, application level protocol for distributed, collaborative hypertext information systems. Why Stateless? By being stateless, it means that each request is executed independently without any knowledge of requests that were executed before it. Once the transaction ends then the connection is lost. The request…

KEY LESSONS FROM MY INTERNSHIP AT MELIORA TECHNOLOGIES I am a product of the Meliora Academy. I joined the team with the desire to learn and help the team. The team did not fail me, I was given room to learn and the opportunity to help the team. By the…

Spring Boot is built around configurations. An example of a configuration file is the application.properties Sometimes we need to export/import the properties into a Java class so as to make them usable. Suppose we have a JWT(Json Web Token) key. If we want to make use of it in our…

Profiles are a core feature of the Spring Framework. They allow us to map different profiles for example, dev, test and prod. We can then activate the different profiles in the different environments. — Suppose you are working on a Spring Project and you have a development environment and a production environment. Then, you have a media folder to store images on your development environment, usually most of the times your laptop.

Just like any other journey, my coding journey has been full of lessons. I am going to highlight them in this story so that you may also learn from my lessons. The official documentation has it all I always wondered where the ‘experts learnt it all from’. In the spirit…

MongoDB is an open source document database. It is a NoSQL database. This means that it is non-tabular and stores data differently than relational tables. NoSQL databases do not require Object Relational Mapping and data normalization. In this tutorial I will show you how to install MongoDB, a NoSQL database…

A Comprehensive Guide On How To Install MySQL On Ubuntu 20.04 — MySQL is a freely available open source Relational Database Management System(RDBMS). The SQL in MySQL is the query language. A query language is used to manipulate the data stored in the database. To use MySQL within your installed Ubuntu 20.04 system, we have to install the server and configure it. …