Practical guides for backend engineers. Real patterns, real trade-offs, no fluff.
The definitive guide to Hibernate and Spring Data JPA. Entity mappings, query optimization, caching, transactions, and the performance pitfalls that only show up at scale.
Building, deploying, and operating microservices with Spring Boot 4. Service discovery, API gateways, distributed tracing, and the trade-offs of splitting the monolith.
JVM tuning, connection pooling, caching, virtual threads, and the profiling techniques that find where your Spring Boot application is actually slow.
End-to-end event-driven systems with Spring Boot and Kafka. Producers, consumers, the outbox pattern, schema evolution, and consistency without distributed transactions.
Deep dive into PostgreSQL internals and production operations. MVCC, vacuuming, index strategies, query planning, replication, and the configuration decisions that matter.
OAuth2, JWT, method security, and the Spring Security filter chain from the inside out. Real production configurations, not just the happy-path setup from the documentation.
A comprehensive guide to building production-ready applications with Spring Boot 4. Covers auto-configuration, testing, security, observability, and deployment.
Integrating LLMs and AI tooling into Spring Boot applications. Prompt engineering, vector databases, RAG pipelines, and production patterns for AI-powered backend services.
Running Spring Boot applications on Kubernetes. Container configuration, health probes, resource limits, horizontal scaling, and operational patterns for cloud-native Java services.
Records, sealed classes, pattern matching, virtual threads, and the modern Java features that actually improve production code. Real use cases, not contrived examples.
Structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and dashboards that actually help during incidents. End-to-end observability for Spring Boot using OpenTelemetry and Grafana.
Cache-aside, write-through, TTL strategies, and cache invalidation. The hard part. Practical patterns for Redis, Memcached, and Hazelcast in production Spring Boot applications.