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Jun 14, 20263 min read

Designing Resilient Microservices with Spring Boot

Microservices fail in predictable ways. A pragmatic guide to building services that degrade gracefully instead of cascading — with the Spring ecosystem tools that make resilience a default rather than an afterthought.

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May 2, 20262 min read

PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Indexing Strategies That Matter

Most slow queries are slow because of indexing mistakes, not because PostgreSQL is slow. A field guide to reading query plans, choosing index types, and knowing when to stop adding indexes.

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