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Configuration Ownership

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  Building software at scale is tricky, and when you have lots of software, you have more problems to solve. Several times engineers look for ways to make their lives easier: make it simple, transparent, and easy to use. That sounds like a good idea, right? What can go wrong with that? Typing is never the bottleneck and will never be. We are all obsessed with reuse; several times, the reuse is marginal and brings way more problems than benefits. Working with an Object-Oriented Language such as Java makes a lot of sense to leverage Dependency. Injection and Ioc(Inversion of Control). Because it's easier to test the Application and also easier to change the Code. In the past, Spring Framework was all about XML; today, all configuration is pretty much done via Code. It's possible to use property files to configure some aspects of backend services written in Java with Spring, yes, but in reality, most of the Code is in the Code in the form of Java Spring Beans.  Spring Framework a