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Microservices trade one class of problem for several others. The architecture is legitimate — but teams routinely adopt it before they have the operational maturity to survive it.
Read moreMocking is the most overused tool in the Spring Boot testing toolkit. Used well, it isolates units and speeds up suites. Used carelessly, it builds a test suite that passes confidently while your application fails in production.
Read moreEndpoint naming seems trivial until it becomes inconsistent, ambiguous, and hard to evolve. Good naming requires treating APIs as long-lived contracts, not quick implementations.
Read moreOAuth 2.0 is not just authentication — it is a framework for delegated authorization. Once you see what it was designed to prevent, the flows stop looking arbitrary.
Read moreAn OpenAPI spec done well is a contract, a test harness, and an SDK generator. An OpenAPI spec done poorly is a documentation burden that diverges from reality within weeks.
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