Why I Stopped Using Microservices(And What I Replaced Them With)

I spent four years as a true believer. I gave conference talks. I drew the boxes and arrows on whiteboards.…

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Virtual Threads Two Years In: Production War Stories, the Pinning Edge Cases, and What JDK 25 Fixed

Java 21 shipped virtual threads in September 2023. Two-plus years of production data later, the picture is more nuanced than…

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The Economics of Technical Debt: Why Teams Rationally Choose to Accumulate It

Telling engineers to “just refactor it” is a bit like telling a country to “just pay off its national debt.”…

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HTMX in a Java World: Building Hypermedia APIswith Spring Boot and Thymeleaf

Tired of wiring up React for a search box? HTMX gives your Thymeleaf templates superpowers — live search, inline edits,…

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MCP for Java Developers: A Practical Tutorial WithSpring AI and the MCP Java SDK

The Model Context Protocol gives AI models a standardized way to call your services, read your data, and use your…

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Spring Boot 4 Migration: Breaking Changes, New Defaults,and What Actually Broke

Spring Boot 4 dropped in November 2025 alongside Spring Framework 7.0. It is the most significant release since the jump…

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Rust VS Go in 2026: The Systems vs Services Split Is Finally Clear — Which One Should You Actually Learn?

The systems vs. services split is no longer theoretical. After years of overlap and hype, real-world adoption data in 2026…

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Platform Engineering in 2026: What It Actually Is, Why It’s Not Just DevOps Renamed, and How to Build an Internal Developer Platform

Gartner predicts 80% of large engineering organisations will have dedicated platform teams by 2026. The DORA 2025 report confirms high-quality…

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MCP for Java Developers: A Practical Tutorial With Spring AI and the MCP Java SDK

The Model Context Protocol finally gives Java a universal plug for AI. Here is how to wire up your first…

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