5h ago · 6 min read · Most tutorials show you the Outbox Pattern on a clean, ideal codebase. This is not that tutorial. This is how I implemented it in a real Spring Boot project — a portfolio notification service I built
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16h ago · 5 min read · Java has evolved dramatically since the release of Java 8 in 2014. For many years, Java 8 remained the industry standard because of its stability and long-term support. However, modern Java releases h
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10h ago · 6 min read · I've read probably forty Spring Boot JWT tutorials over the years. They all show you the same thing: how to generate a token on login, how to validate it on each request, and how to wire up SecurityFilterChain. And they all stop right there. What the...
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12h ago · 1 min read · Spring AI Tool Calling: From Chatbot to AI Agent with @Tool Your AI is smart. It knows an enormous amount. But it's frozen. It doesn't know what time it is right now. It doesn't know what's on your calendar. It can't check the weather, place an order...
Join discussion1d ago · 3 min read · Hey folks, David here, your friendly neighborhood tech gatekeeper. Today, we're diving deep into a Senior QA Automation Engineer role at Bjak. The promise of "cutting-edge platforms" and "equal access to financial services" sounds noble, but does the...
Join discussion1d ago · 12 min read · Source: Reasons TTL Alone Is a Weak Cache Strategy for Frequently Updated Business Data You know that feeling when a fast, simple idea looks like the obvious engineering short-cut—and then quietly turns into a production headache? TTL-based caching...
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1d ago · 21 min read · The incomparability problem Here is a question that has no clean answer. How do you know whether the architecture you chose was the right one? Not right in the sense of working — most systems work, ev
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4d ago · 10 min read · Hashnode readers tend to care about the practical boundary: what actually happens when a Java library and a .NET library have to live in the same product? This version focuses on the implementation choices teams can ship — process wrappers, REST/gRPC...
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