[Editor's note: Peter rewrote this article after a reader pointed out he over-engineered his original solution. ("What can I say: The code worked -- I just didn't need nearly as much code as I thought ...

Today's applications require monitoring, logging, configuration, etc. Each of these concerns can be implemented as a ...

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