MongoDB Server Timeout: When Client Timeouts Aren't Enough
Discovered why a query ran for 14 hours on MongoDB server despite client timeout: missing server-side timeout configuration. Solutions for MongoClientSettings.
Staff Engineering
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.
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.
90% of distributed traces observability gone after Spring Boot upgrade
After upgrading Spring Boot version to 3.3.1 we noticed 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
Learnings from the book The Staff Engineer's Path
These are my learnings from the book The Staff Engineer’s Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change written by Tanya Reilly