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Problems I ran into, what I tried, and what I learned along the way. Some are finished stories, some are notes I'm still adding to.
- Why we chose Spring Modulith Our customers couldn't run a dozen microservices, but our monolith was getting tangled. Spring Modulith gave us boundaries without the containers.
- Do I really need to think about isolation levels? Just querying the database as usual works, right up until two people try to book the last ticket at the same time.
- How SSL/TLS actually works I thought I understood the TLS handshake. Then I dug a little deeper and found out the picture in my head was from an older version of TLS.
- Prefer dependency injection to hardwiring resources A static utility class looked tidy, until I tried to test it. Notes on Effective Java's Item 5, and why it stuck with me.
- Changing annotation values at runtime with Java Reflection Annotations are supposed to be fixed once the code is compiled. I needed one to change, so I went looking for where Java actually keeps them.