Questions tagged [configuration]
Configuration is an arrangement of functional units according to their nature, number, and chief characteristics.
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How do I decide whether an option belongs in an environment variable, command-line option, or both?
I am working on an executable program - an application or utility. At some point, I want to introduce a new option (to be considered at run-time rather than build-time); the option may be boolean, ...
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Handling user strategy choice over many strategy patterns
I’m building a framework with many parallel implementations of strategy patterns, and I want to know the best way to handle the user’s choice of the set of strategies. E.g.
I want to calculate the ...
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How to implement a server application that can reload configuration without restart
I have a game server implemented in Python to which clients can connect and play against each other.
I'd like to be able to reload configuration from a config file without restarting the server (as ...
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Feasibility of using different java version for different project with different compatibility properties
I have multiple Flutter Android app projects that have different compatibilities of Java.
Now, what should I do if I am developing more than one project simultaneously?
If the first one uses Java 17, ...
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How can I manage validation logic for 150+ screens with unique business rules across microservices?
Currently, I'm working on an application with a microservice architecture. Each screen may corresponds to a separate microservice, and each screen has its own unique validation logic. Some screens ...
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Should you test configuration?
There's a (mis)conception that you don't have to test configuration
But what if your configuration is in the form of runnable code? What if it's not just static values?
I wrote an abstraction for ...
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What are the benefits of configuration languages over just using the source language?
TL;DR why do people pick YAML/JSON/ini/TOML/XML/plain text to configure applications/packages instead of having the configuration be defined in source files the application/package is written in? I ...
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ASP.NET Core configuration system: Isn't the default configuration prone to naming conflicts in environment variables?
I'm trying to wrap my head around the ASP.NET Core Configuration system.
If I understand the default configuration correctly, non-prefixed environment variables will override appsettings.json entries.
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How can we avoid extremely complex configurations in enterprise software?
This is the situation that I've seen two times in a row already.
A company makes software intended to be sold to other companies. So there will be relatively few clients, but each is an important one. ...
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Effective way to develop software on two machines (PC and Laptop) [duplicate]
When writing code on a desktop pc as well as on a laptop or other computer, is there a general recommended strategy for being able to keep the same environments set up on both machines?
I use Git ...
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Where to put DLL specific settings?
I'm not sure how to manage configuration settings in a C#/.NET environment. For simplicity lets say I have 3 assemblies: My MainApplication is the project being started and containing the business ...
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Infrequent config set up
There is a string field x, contains value a/b/c/d
The order of a/b/c/d is changed infrequently , only once a year or several years.
What is the best approach to store this config?
Currently , it's ...
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SQL as a means of avoiding "releases"
The system I'm working on started as a small training project within the company I work for but quickly caught interest from management as a means to help to standardize the existing excel-heavy ...
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How to handle root paths in a custom package?
I am writing a custom python package, which produces some files in a certain directory. This directory I call root_path and should be set by the user. So basically, it should be a conf variable but ...
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What Semantic Version increment to use for a filename change?
I have a program that runs on command-line, let's call it myprogram 1.0.1. It's published on GitHub.
Now I discovered that name already exist for a well-know software, so I want to change the name ...
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The notion of configurable strategies
I'm designing an algorithm that matches entries based on some notion of "proximity" (for the sake of discussion, assume we're matching floats). Furthermore:
The input is a scalar and a ...
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Should I "modularize" my configuration file into different files?
I have a simulation in Python which reads its configuration from a toml file. Since I have tons of parameters, the toml file can grow quite large.
This is an example file, similar in structure to my ...
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In a microservice architecture, can individual microservices contain any configuration file? Is keeping a small config a good practice?
I thought, In a microservice architecture, only the "Configuration Server" will be responsible for providing configuration to individual microservices even if it's a small config. So that we ...
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How to handle config/env vars in a library project
I am building a new Python library project to be consumed by several of my application projects. The existing code consumes environment variables for various configuration settings. Should my ...
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Decisions according to environment
I am trying to convince others that the following first code snippet is bad practice and the second snippet is best practice.
Bad practice:
// There is only one implementation of Adapter
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Should Configurations Be Split To Different Microservices?
As part of a microservice-based system design, I'm struggling to decide where system configurations should reside in terms of domain ownership.
For example, let's assume I'm designing a "store ...
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Should we directly read environment variables when/where we need them?
Why most frameworks (at least in PHP. I suppose in other languages, too) use the environment variables to set a corresponding configuration parameter and then access the value through a config object/...
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In what configuration file format do regular expressions not need escaping?
I want a configuration file for a .NET program.
This file is to configure pairs of regular expressions.
The regular expressions belong within a hierarchy of sections.
Section1
SubsectionA
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How do you identify unused parts of app and web .config files in .NET? [duplicate]
I am working on removing obsolete/unused pieces of configuration from a .NET product starting with appSettings. There are multiple solutions and I've noticed that appSettings can be in a .config file ...
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Configuration of a staging environment vs production environment
For our software development process we used to set up 3 environments : integration , QA and master.
Recently it was decided to add a new staging environment that shall mirror the production ...
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How can I cleanly express these dependencies?
Consider this hypothetical scenario. I have a user form that has a collection of controls that are made available/unavailable based on certain criteria. One important criterion is product type. On ...
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"Hard coded" vs. configuration files for values in libraries? (code organization question)
I'm trying to get a good understanding as to whether there is a best practice or standard regarding keeping values within your code libraries or referencing them from another config file. I don't ...
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Dependencies in microservices configuration
I'm dealing with a system where:
A number of around 50 microservices are available
Depending on their needs, clients design their deployment choosing which of those microservices they need
Most of ...
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Improvement of the config file management
I am working on a personal project for more than 6 months now, this project is composed of three distinct parts, simulation (wrapping a software),
database related stuff (store the simulated data in a ...
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How to manage configuration file updates when deploying new application version?
Given an application having:
Configuration Files (xml or json)
An Automated Deployment Process
After the deployment the configuration files can be modified by users.
When deploying a new version of ...
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How to generate frontend URLs in a "12 factor app" service?
I'm working on a system with a user-facing frontend and with 1-n backend services which I'm trying to design according to the principles of the Twelve-Factor App.
I'm now facing the task of sending ...
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Deploying appconfigs to different environments
I have a project on Azure DevOps that uses an appconfig.
The appconfig holds sensetive data like usernames and passwords and is committed empty to the repo.
I have to deploy the project on two ...
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Ask for suggestion: data type for parsing stringified fractional numbers
I am the author of a C library for parsing INI files. So far I have delegated the task of parsing values as numbers to the standard atoi() family of functions. However I think time has come that I ...
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Best practice for config files in containerized apps
The suggested file structure for docker container is something like
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├── app/
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| └── Dockerfile
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├── db/
| ├── ...
| └── Dockerfile
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└── docker-compose.yaml
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How to design config files for each environment in github?
I have a list of application configs and business configs in a particular root folder inside our git repository.
Below is our current structure as of now:
We have a root Data folder and inside that ...
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Load single module based on configuration using dependency injection
I'm working on an application that will run on multiple systems and may use different modules to communicate with external systems, but on each system, only one module will be used at a time. As it ...
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app.config prevent end users from modifying it
On our product there are many config files (we have many processes)
For "logicical" configuration, we store all configuration in a document based database and then distribute the configuration to ...
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Use two parallel instances of the same .NET assembly
I've have an n-tier .NET 4.6 internal business application. It has a business logic layer class library project that references a data access layer class library project. It's designed to decouple the ...
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C# - Generic Configurable Condition checker at Runtime - Achievement System
I'm writing a "generic" achievement system for my MMORPG project, it needs to be friendly & efficient for my game designers (without having to write code to add new achievements).
If anyone got ...
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How do I maintain configuration in the case of multiple test environments and application instances
What's the best practice for maintaining app configuration for multiple test environments, (and production)?
At the moment I am keeping all the config in the code repo (a bitbucket server). Configs ...
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Managing Multiple Applications With Similar Configuration Files
From the .Net perspective (C#, VB, etc.) and MSSQL, I have noticed that for a set of applications (maintained by the same development team) typically have the same defined configuration for connecting ...
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Dynamic Configuration vs. Custom Service
I have been designing an email alert system for my customers which allows them to choose what alerts they receive. AlertManager seems suitable, except for it's static configuration file; A customer ...
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Managing config (environment variables) shared by many applications (lambda functions)
In AWS I've got lots (dozens) of lambda functions. As my organization has gained experience with AWS, we've gone through various generations of infrastrucure around building and maintaining our ...
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How to configure a React app for different environments
We're configuring the build and release pipeline for our frontend code which is built with React. The final output is just some static HTML/Javascript code. The differences between environments are ...
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How to batch organize configuration files?
I've got a program for analyzing specific folders / websites.
The program always does the same steps for each folder and website.
Therefore I've used JSON files to store configuration (domain name, ...
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How to handle different XML configurations for different deployments
I am a software developer facing the following problem. Normally, I develop software and put client specific settings in a separate place (config file, database etc.). A new version of the software ...
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How to configure front-end web application from environment?
I'm working on a relatively thin front-end web application that talks to an API. Depending on where this front-end application is served from (CI server, staging server, production server, etc.) I ...
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How to maintain and configure properties files for different environments in Java maven project?
A Java project with maven as build tool needs to be deployed to different environments, such as ci, dev, test, prod etc. Each environment has a properties file with the same set of properties such as:
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Advice on designing a scraper DSL
I am creating a DSL for a scraping library I am writing. I would like advice on how to design a DSL, and if the designs I have below are good ones. Apologies if this is an open-ended question, but it ...
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How to deal with configuration files that are becoming too complex
There is a db with tables of genes. And these genes would need to be annotated based on the client's needs. So if a gene matches condition x, then add a new column y and value z to that gene. Every ...
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