10 Essential Spring Boot Logging Best Practices for Production Apps
Spring Boot logging best practices: SLF4J, logback-spring.xml, structured JSON logs, MDC for request context, parameterised messages and levels.
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Spring Boot Native Image GraalVM Tutorial: From Source to Instant-On Binary
Build a Spring Boot native image with GraalVM: AOT processing explained, compiling the executable, startup and memory results, and limitations.
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Is Spring Boot Worth Learning in 2026? A Backend Engineer’s Honest Review
Is Spring Boot still worth learning? Why it dominates enterprise Java, its trade-offs, GraalVM native images, virtual threads and career value.
Mastering Framework Logic: A Spring Boot Custom Annotation Example
Create a custom annotation in Spring Boot: define it, implement the behaviour with an AOP aspect, apply it to methods and avoid proxy pitfalls.
Mastering Your Spring Boot Redis Caching Strategy: A Deep Dive into Performance
Redis caching in Spring Boot: the cache abstraction, TTLs and eviction, cache-aside vs write-through, serialisation and avoiding stale data.
Testing & QA
Mastering Spring Boot Testing with Testcontainers: A Complete Tutorial
Integration tests with Testcontainers in Spring Boot: dependencies, real database containers, @ServiceConnection, writing tests and speeding them up.