advancedProduction Best Practices
Why should environment-specific behavior live in profile-specific properties files instead of if-checks in code?
Config-file-based environment differences (application-prod.properties vs application-dev.properties) are visible and auditable in one place, while scattered if-checks bury environment-dependent behavior inside business logic where it's easy to miss and easy to get wrong during a deploy.
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