* There can be **multiple processes** of the **same program** running at the same time.

If you check out the "task manager" or "system monitor" (or similar tools) in your operating system, you will be able to see many of those processes running.

	dataScannerCompactAtChildren     = 10000                            // Compact when there are this many children in a branch.
	dataScannerCompactAtFolders      = dataScannerCompactAtChildren / 4 // Compact when this many subfolders in a single folder.
	dataScannerForceCompactAtFolders = 1_000_000                        // Compact when this many subfolders in a single folder (even top level).

This also means that in many cases you can pass the same object you get from a request **directly to the database**, as everything is validated automatically.

The same applies the other way around, in many cases you can just pass the object you get from the database **directly to the client**.

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"_Honestly, what you've built looks super solid and polished. In many ways, it's what I wanted **Hug** to be - it's really inspiring to see someone build that._"

A "build session" represents a single invocation of Gradle, for example when you run `gradlew build`.
A session runs the build one or more times.
For example, when continuous build is enabled, the session may run the build many times, but when it is disabled, the session will run the build once only.

The build session state is managed by the `BuildSessionState` class.

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"_Honestly, what you've built looks super solid and polished. In many ways, it's what I wanted **Hug** to be - it's really inspiring to see someone build that._"

# Settings and Environment Variables

In many cases your application could need some external settings or configurations, for example secret keys, database credentials, credentials for email services, etc.

Most of these settings are variable (can change), like database URLs. And many could be sensitive, like secrets.

For this reason it's common to provide them in environment variables that are read by the application.

## Environment Variables

!!! tip

hostnames for us to make sure that we can provide horizontal distribution, however we have come across situations where sometimes this is not feasible and there are no easier alternatives without modifying /etc/hosts on the host system as root user.  Many times in airgapped deployments this is not allowed or requires audits and approvals.

MinIO server configuration file allows users to provide topology that allows for heterogeneous hostnames, allowing MinIO to deployed in pre-existing environments...

	ObjectAttributes    map[string]struct{} // Attribute tags defined by the users for the GetObjectAttributes request
	MaxParts            int                 // used in GetObjectAttributes. Signals how many parts we should return
	PartNumberMarker    int                 // used in GetObjectAttributes. Signals the part number after which results should be returned

For example, there's an official <a href="https://hub.docker.com/_/python" class="external-link" target="_blank">Python Image</a>.

And there are many other images for different things like databases, for example for: