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Understanding configuration complexity

Have you struggled with increasing complexity of managing and maintaining software configuration? Some time ago, I saw a reference to what was called the Configuration Complexity Clock. It describes phases in how the complexity of software configuration grows. This name originally came from a blog post by Mike Hadlow in 2012.

This is something we should know and think about before we end up in a bad, unmaintainable place.

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I use Publii for managing this website, which is a pretty nice static site generator and content management system. However, it only has built-in support for Disqus as a comment…

Take a cue to supercharge your configurations

Do you have a love/hate relationship with YAML or JSON for configurations?

Are your configurations getting messed up because of simple typos, or problems with white space, or confusion between strings and numbers?

Do you try to manage some templating solution on top of YAML?

Is it hard to manage complex overrides across multiple configuration files?

If any of these questions resonate with you, then this article may interest you!