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Spring Boot
April 2025 · 8 min read

Spring Boot 3.x: our migration playbook for production workloads

Jakarta EE, observability with Micrometer, and the upgrade order that avoids 2 a.m. rollback calls on a live core-banking system.

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Angular
March 2025 · 6 min read

Signals vs. NgRx: a decision framework for Angular state in 2025

When a simple signal is enough, when you still need NgRx, and the migration path between the two for a 200k-line application.

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Modernization
March 2025 · 10 min read

Strangler fig, done properly: retiring a 15-year-old J2EE monolith

Seams, contract tests and the “dark launch” technique we use to migrate traffic without ever freezing a release window.

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Security
February 2025 · 7 min read

Securing Spring Boot APIs: OAuth2, OIDC and the mistakes we see most

From misconfigured CORS to JWKS caching bugs — the top ten security findings from 40+ Spring Boot audits.

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Front-End
January 2025 · 5 min read

Testing Angular design systems without testing your patience

Storybook, Playwright component tests and visual regression — a pragmatic pipeline for 40+ shared components.

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Architecture
January 2025 · 6 min read

Your Java monolith might be the right call (and how to keep it healthy)

Why we talk most clients out of premature microservices — and the modularity practices that keep monoliths fast.

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