Playing card enum in Java

It’s fun to just play with a language. Why be in this business if it isn’t fun? So one day I wanted to make a Java enum. I thought - “a deck of cards is the perfect enum.”

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Configure a Spring Boot app for HTTPS on Amazon AWS.

Even trivial websites are moving from HTTP to HTTPS these days, as Google has made the deprecation of HTTP websites a corporate priority. Those of us who have had http websites for years are forced to deal with upgrading to https, and getting a certificate that works. I had Spring Boot apps running on Amazon EC-2 instances for years, and suddenly I needed to convert them to HTTPS. But how?

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