Spring Boot 4 Upgrade: Lessons From an AI-First Migration
What made our Spring Boot 3.5 to 4.1 upgrade easier than the 2 to 3 one, including the AI-first knowledge base we built and shared across service teams.
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Improving MongoDB Observability with Spring Data
How we improved MongoDB tracing spans in Spring Data by adding a custom command listener to surface query details while keeping sensitive values sanitized.
JPA Delete and Optimistic Locking: Why Batching Fails
Discovered why JPA deleteAll wasn’t batching: @Version fields force entity loading for optimistic locking. The fix: explicit @Query annotation.
Spring Boot 4 Migration Analysis
A detailed analysis of the major changes in Spring Boot 4, including Jackson 3 migration, Java 17 baseline, and dependency updates.
Getting Observability Right with Spring AI and WebFlux
How I got observability working in my reactive Spring AI app using WebFlux, after hours debugging tracing and context propagation issues.
Fixing Tracing Propagation in Spring WebFlux in One Line
Upgrading to Spring Boot 3.2 revealed tracing issues in a WebFlux service. A single line of code fixed broken span propagation and improved debugging.
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
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
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
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