Monitoring Spring Boot with Actuator, Micrometer, and Prometheus
A practical guide to Spring Boot monitoring, covering Actuator setup, JVM and application metrics, PromQL queries, dependency health, and alert thresholds.
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18 minutes
Inversion of Control: From Java Objects to Spring Beans
Understand IoC and dependency injection through a Java example, then explore Spring bean configuration, injection styles, scopes, and common mistakes.
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7 minutes
A Practical Guide to Python Strings: Quotes, Prefixes, and Formatting
Learn how Python strings work, from quotes and escape sequences to f-strings, raw strings, bytes, format specifiers, and everyday string methods.
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Java Volatile Explained: Visibility, Ordering, and Memory Barriers
Learn what Java's volatile keyword guarantees, how happens-before and instruction reordering work, why volatile is not atomic, and when to use it instead of synchronization.
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7 minutes
Diagnosing HikariCP Connection Pool Exhaustion in Spring Boot
A production-focused guide to finding and fixing HikariCP connection leaks, long transactions, slow SQL, undersized pools, and excessive concurrency in Spring Boot.
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7 minutes
15 More Java Backend Interview Questions and Answers
Review core Java collections, concurrency, JVM internals, Spring, Spring Security, transactions, and MySQL through 15 common backend interview questions.
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Watch Out for This Hidden NPE Trap in Java's Ternary Operator
Learn why mixing int and Integer in a Java ternary expression can trigger a surprising NullPointerException—and how to avoid it.
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Sockets and WebSocket Explained
Understand sockets, the WebSocket protocol, its HTTP upgrade handshake, data framing, and how WebSocket compares with HTTP.
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