JPA Delete Queries and Optimistic Locking: Why Batching Fails
Discovered why JPA deleteAll wasn’t batching: @Version fields force entity loading for optimistic locking. The fix: explicit @Query annotation.
Software Engineering
Spring Boot 4 Migration Analysis
A detailed analysis of the major changes in Spring Boot 4, including Jackson 3 migration, Java 17 baseline, and dependency updates.
Getting Observability Right with Spring AI and WebFlux
How I got observability working in my reactive Spring AI app using WebFlux, after hours debugging tracing and context propagation issues.
Why Task Snacking Feels Productive But Holds You Back
Task snacking feels productive but can keep you from meaningful work. Stay aware, balance small tasks with big ones, and make sure progress truly matters
Fixing Tracing Propagation in Spring WebFlux: A One-Line Solution
Upgrading to Spring Boot 3.2 revealed tracing issues in a WebFlux service. A single line of code fixed broken span propagation and improved debugging.
Enhance GitLab Release Notes with Automated Library Changelogs
Learn how to automate GitLab library changelogs for streamlined release notes, improving efficiency and consistency in your development workflow
Navigating a Major Spring Boot Upgrade: Key Takeaways
Learn key insights from upgrading Spring Boot from 2.7 to 3.2. Discover practical tips, challenges faced, and best practices for a smooth transition
Backwards compatible migration for Spring Batch 5 params table
From Spring Batch 4 to 5 there were changes in the rows on BATCH_JOB_EXECUTION_PARAMS we show an approach that makes the migration easy and backward-compatible
90% of distributed traces observability gone after Spring Boot upgrade
After upgrading Spring Boot version to 3.3.1 we notice that 90% of our distributed tracing in our observability tool were gone. In this post we tell the story
How upgrading from Spring Boot 3.2.5 to 3.3.1 broke our object mapper
After upgrading Spring Boot from version 3.2.5 to 3.3.1 we started to have a serialization issue with the Optional class. Check how to fix it in this post