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What's the version of my Jekyll site?
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What's the version of my Jekyll site?

A couple of years ago, I wrote how one could check the version of one’s deployed application. Recent technologies such as Spring Boot makes it even easier. It’s as important for regular applications as for static sites such as Jekyll. I wanted to have this blog display some basic Git data. As I publish from the tip of master and not from tags, the data I want is the commit hash.

Oct 27, 2019
Java

What's the version of my deployed application?

In my career, I’ve noticed many small and un-expensive features that didn’t find their way into the Sprint backlog because they didn’t provide business value. However, they provided plenty of Return Over Investment during the life of the application, but that was completely overlooked due to short-sighted objectives (set by short-sighted management). Those include, but are not limited to: Monitoring in general, and more specifically metrics, health checks, etc.

Apr 6, 2015
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