Fabian Lee : Software Engineer

Syslog: Sending Java log4j2 to rsyslog on Ubuntu

October 17, 2016
Categories: DevOps, Java

Logging has always been a critical part of application development. But the rise of OS virtualization, applications containers, and cloud-scale logging solutions has turned logging into something bigger that managing local debug files. Modern applications and services are now expected to feed log aggregation and analysis stacks (ELK, Graylog, Loggly, Splunk, etc). This can be … Syslog: Sending Java log4j2 to rsyslog on Ubuntu

Documentum: Separating dfc.properties from your WAR

April 27, 2016
Categories: Documentum, Java

In the world of microservices and containers, it is often desirable to keep settings such as those found in dfc.properties outside of the jar or war so that the deployment binary is the same no matter which environment it is deployed into. The settings in dfc.properties can be externalized by specifying the location of dfc.properties … Documentum: Separating dfc.properties from your WAR