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Anuj Kumar is the co-founder and chief architect of FORMCEPT, a data analytics startup based in Bangalore, India. He has more than 10 years of experience in designing large-scale distributed systems for storage, retrieval, and analytics. He has been in industry hacking, mainly in the area of data integration, data quality, and data analytics using NLP and machine learning techniques. He has published research papers at ACM conferences, got a few patents granted, and has spoken at TEDx. Prior to FORMCEPT, he has worked with the Oracle Server Technologies division in Bangalore, India.
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Configuration principles

All the application parameters that are related to the environment and affect the application state must be made configurable. For example, the connection string for a Datomic database that is used by Helping Hands services can be made configurable so that it can be updated externally to point to a specific instance of Datomic in production. Configuration parameters also make it possible to test the application in various environments. For example, if a Datomic connection string is made configurable for Helping Hands services, it can be used to test the services with an in-memory instance of Datomic in local development environments and later changed to point to the production instance of Datomic once they are deployed.

Defining configuration parameters

Applications must support multiple ways of defining the configuration parameters. Using command-line arguments is one of the most common ways of specifying the configuration parameters for the application. Environment...

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