Knowledge base

Knowledge base was a buzzword a few years ago. A few companies were evangelizing the idea of wiki technology and nobody was using it. Today, the landscape of the knowledge base is totally different. All enterprises use some kind of wiki implementation that is there to share knowledge. They mostly use Confluence, but there are also other wiki solutions available, commercial and free as well.

Knowledge bases store information that you, as a developer, would write down in a paper notebook for your later reference, for example, the IP address of the development server, directories for where to install the JAR files, what commands to use, what libraries you have collected, and why you use them. The major difference is that you write ...

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