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

Modified: November 13, 2024 · Created: July 17, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

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

Modified: November 13, 2024 · Created: July 15, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

Goals and purposes for the next year

Planning for the year enables me to accomplish my goals. In this post, I share some of the aspirations I aim to achieve.

Learnings from the book The Comfort Crisis

These are my learnings from the book The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self written by Michael Easter

Migration from Netflix Zuul to Spring Cloud Gateway Server MVC

I have recently migrated our API gateway from Spring Cloud Starter Netflix Zuul to Spring Cloud Gateway Server MVC and here is a complete guide on how to do it

Modified: November 13, 2024 · Created: June 27, 2024 · João Vieira (JV) · Software Engineering

My Pillars of Health: Guidelines to help me live healthier and better

My Pillars of Health are guidelines that help me keep healthy and push me to do things that will make me feel better and have a good lifespan and healthspan.

Learnings from the book A Guide to the Good Life

These are my learnings from the book A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy written by William B. Irvine

The Best of Dubai: A review of all that we did and liked the most

We stayed 8 days in Dubai and in this post, we describe the best attractions and what you need to know before going to Dubai.

Dubai Desert Safari: Is it worth it?

We travel to Dubai and we took a Desert Safari tour to see the two things that we wanted the most: Camel ride and desert view. But, is it worth it?

Learnings from the book The Good Enough Job

These are my learnings from the book The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work