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What I gave up to run Spring static analysis in a browser
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Week 10 of #100DaysOfCode: Exploring Microservices and Modern Architecture
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DeepSeek Now Prices Tokens Like Electricity: 50% Off-Peak Discount and a Spring Boot Pattern to Profit From It
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🚀 Building Spring by Example: Completing the Bean Lifecycle Module
When I started learning Spring, I noticed something about many of the tutorials I found. They often showed how to use a feature, but not always why…
From Querydsl to Spring Filter: One Syntax, Three Backends
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MCP Goes Stateless: Building AI Agent Servers with Spring AI 2.0
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Spring AI vs LangChain4j: Which Java AI Framework Should You Choose in 2026?
Earlier this year, I needed to add an AI assistant to a Spring Boot application I maintain. Nothing exotic -- just a chat interface that could answe…
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Running Snyk on Real Legacy Java Code — The Full Unfiltered Results
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Rod Johnson Is Back - and He's Bringing AI Agents to Java
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Explain the Concept of "Convention over Configuration" in Spring Boot
If you've ever started a Java project, you probably know how much configuration is usually required. You need to configure XML files, register beans…
Your Keycloak roles aren't working in Spring Security. Here's the actual reason.
If you've wired up a Spring Boot resource server behind Keycloak and your @PreAuthorize("hasRole('ADMIN')") is silently returning 403 for a user you…
Stop Begging Your LLM for Valid JSON: Self-Correcting Structured Output in Spring AI 2.0
Every developer who has worked with LLMs has been there. You ask the model for JSON. You describe the schema. You say "please only respond with vali…
How does Spring Boot simplify the development of Java applications?
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Four Bugs Stood Between Me amd "Sign in with Google"
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I Built a Tool That Shows the SQL Behind Any Spring Data Method Name
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I Built a RAG App, Then Asked It What Car I Like. It Didn't Know.
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Building an AI Chat Agent with MCP, Spring AI
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OrderHub Day 4: Bean Validation + Clean DTOs (Spring Boot)
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OrderHub Day 3: Versioned Schema With Flyway Migrations (Spring Boot)
OrderHub Day 2 let Hibernate create the schema with ddl-auto: update — fine for a demo, scary for a real team (unversioned, unreviewable, and it qui…
OrderHub Day 2: Persisting Orders with JPA + PostgreSQL (Spring Boot)
OrderHub Day 1 stored orders in a HashMap — restart the server and they're gone. Day 2 fixes that: real persistence with JPA + PostgreSQL , and than…
The Version That Broke Everything
A deep dive into API versioning — what goes wrong without it, the old way developers survived it, and why Spring 7's new approach changes everything…
Recap — M0 Foundations
This module built one thing, from many angles: the container — the part of Spring that creates your objects, wires them together, and hands them out…
OAuth2 Login with JWT and Refresh Tokens in Spring Boot — The Setup You'll Rebuild Every Time
Most Spring Boot applications eventually need authentication. And many teams rebuild the same foundation every time. Add a login endpoint. Generate…
Stop Hiding SQL Behind Your ORM: jOOQ, JPA, and JDBC Under Production Load
Most persistence debates in Java are framed incorrectly. The question is not: Should we use JPA, jOOQ, or JDBC? The real question is: Is this part o…