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3 min · 2026-03-17T05:45:42.372+00:00
Engineering Production-Grade API Clients in Spring Boot
Most backend systems eventually need to integrate with external APIs, such as Payment gateways. Tax validation services. Identity providers. CRM systems, and more.
14 min · 2026-03-13T13:29:04.489+00:00
Stop Lying to Your CI Pipeline
How to set up and review PR verification pipelines for Spring Boot services, and the patterns that mature teams follow after they learn these lessons the hard way.
8 min · 2026-03-01
Stop Lying to Your Tests
Why modern Spring Boot integration testing should run against real infrastructure using Testcontainers instead of H2.
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