Naveen Metta·23h ago10 Spring Boot Annotations That Do More Than You ThinkSome of the most common Spring annotations hide proxies, extra queries, and threading rules, and I've been burned by most of them in…
Khunal Shaik·1d agoSpring Framework: A Story of EvolutionSpring began as a rebellion against heavyweight enterprise Java, and over two decades it kept reinventing itself without losing that…
Md Jahid Hasan·2d agoWhy Your @Transactional Isn’t Rolling Back (And 4 Other Lies It Tells You)Part 1 of Passed Review, Failed in Prod: the Spring Boot bugs nobody catches until production does.A response icon1A response icon1
Cem Dırman·2d agoThe Decorator Pattern in Spring: Wrap a Bean With Caching or Metrics Without Touching ItIf you have used Spring’s @Cacheable or built a Strategy map of beans, you already know Spring likes to keep behavior out of your core…
irfan arshad·2d agoSpring Boot 3.5 is out of support. A practical, step-by-step Spring Boot 4 migration guide.Open-source support for Spring Boot 3.x ended on June 30, 2026. Here’s the migration order that keeps large codebases moving — and the…A response icon1A response icon1
InEngineering Under PressurebySoftware Engineering Knowledge·3d agoSpring Boot HikariCP Connection Pool Exhausted: 9 Causes That Actually Matter in ProductionYour API is timing out, PostgreSQL looks suspicious, and someone just suggested increasing maximumPoolSize to 200. Congratulations. Your…
InEngineering Under PressurebyBeyond Senior·3d agoI Asked a Staff Java Candidate Why Redis Returned Stale Data After @CacheEvictHe knew Spring Boot caching, PostgreSQL transactions, and Redis. Then I showed him a race condition that survived every cache invalidation…
InEngineering Under PressurebyEngineering Unfiltered | Prodrescue By Devrim·4d agoWe Doubled Our Spring Boot Connection Pool. Production Got Even SlowerThe PostgreSQL database was barely using its CPU. The APIs were timing out, customers couldn’t complete checkout, and the team’s first fix…
Timothy Ndichu·5d ago@Valid vs @Validated: The Spring Boot Annotation Pair Everyone Uses and Few UnderstandYou’ve typed both a hundred times. Do you know what happens when you pick the wrong one?
Ahmet Temel Kundupoglu·6d agoSpring @Transactional Self-Invocation: Why REQUIRES_NEW Is IgnoredSeven integration tests show why an active transaction can hide a missed proxy boundary — and how to verify an independent audit commit.
