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# Working w/ Gradle: A Practical Guide 

## Maven Status
- not incremental in practice
- no remote caching
- snapshot handling/updating
- installing
- slow, why it's slow
- plugin dependency hell
- fairly simple/standard

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# Staging
These are recommendations. The team is free to do what they deem best.

Overarching principle:
* *Staging is where you validate the known-unknowns of your systems*
* Known-unknowns:
	* interactions between various systems and edge cases
	* possible to write unit tests, but difficult, especially when UIs are involved 
* Unknown-unknowns:
	* e.g. traffic patterns, traffic loads etc.

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// Testing main method.
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
  String firstID = "491d69e08dbdaeacbed17194761f97b1b9c9a3928e7c3b1b0add760a37a45b4d";
  String salt = "DPK54AN4HZE4N9G0D4RC2EOH8A58H1Z6";

  String answer = "71e10f9d4ab22a8c0a31ec27c8913a13a12a5ebb6500baaaea9a9bd694447cc1";

  // Only do second transformation
  // 1. Hex decode |firstID|.
  // 3. Prefix |salt| to |base|.