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The default isolation level is not always correct for your use case — understanding what read committed, repeatable read, and serializable actually guarantee determines whether your application has subtle data consistency bugs you haven't found yet.
Read moreCreating threads directly is expensive, uncontrolled, and hard to shut down cleanly. ExecutorService solves all three problems — but its default configurations have tradeoffs that matter in production.
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Read moreTests that mock every dependency are not unit tests — they are tests of mock configuration. When a test setup contains more mock declarations than real assertions, the test has stopped verifying behavior and started verifying wiring.
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