Learnings from the book I Don’t Want To Talk About It

These are my learnings from the book I Don’t Want To Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression

Top Podcasts of 2024: Smarter, Healthier, and Happier

Discover the top 5 podcasts that fueled my learning, health, and inspiration in 2024, along with key episodes and insights from my listening journey

Learnings from the book Hidden Potential

These are my learnings from the book Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things written by Adam Grant

Celestron Travel Scope 80 Review: My First Telescope

My experience with the Celestron Travel Scope 80: a budget-friendly, compact telescope with some challenges in stability and magnification.

Created: September 23, 2024 · 3 min · Luiz Vieira · Hobbies

Automated Library Changelogs in GitLab Release Notes

Learn how to automate GitLab library changelogs for streamlined release notes, improving efficiency and consistency in your development workflow

Modified: November 13, 2024 · Created: September 16, 2024 · 7 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

Navigating a Major Spring Boot Upgrade: Key Takeaways

Learn key insights from upgrading Spring Boot from 2.7 to 3.2. Discover practical tips, challenges faced, and best practices for a smooth transition

Modified: August 8, 2026 · Created: August 27, 2024 · 5 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

Spring Batch 5: Backwards Compatible Params Table Migration

From Spring Batch 4 to 5 there were changes in the rows on BATCH_JOB_EXECUTION_PARAMS we show an approach that makes the migration easy and backward-compatible

Modified: November 13, 2024 · Created: August 19, 2024 · 7 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

Spring Boot 3 Upgrade Lost 90% of Our Distributed Traces

After upgrading Spring Boot version to 3.3.1 we noticed that 90% of our distributed tracing in our observability tool were gone. In this post we tell the story

Modified: November 13, 2024 · Created: July 17, 2024 · 4 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

How Spring Boot 3.3.1 Broke Our Jackson Object Mapper

After upgrading Spring Boot from version 3.2.5 to 3.3.1 we started to have a serialization issue with the Optional class. Check how to fix it in this post

Modified: November 13, 2024 · Created: July 15, 2024 · 2 min · Luiz Vieira · Software Engineering

Goals and purposes for the next year

Planning for the year enables me to accomplish my goals. In this post, I share some of the aspirations I aim to achieve.