Brian Vermeer

Java Champion | Developer | Speaker

18 November 2021

Modern application development is heavily dependent on third-party libraries. When looking at an average project, the amount of your code can be as little as 1%. As we do care a lot about the code we write, how do we augment this on the packages we depend on? Let’s look at best practices on how to build a proper dependency management strategy. How to pick dependencies, update them, and clean out manifest files with tons of dependencies. And maybe even more important, what happens if we are not on top of this?