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Our team of 5 members are managing a microservice architecture that currently includes around 200 Java Spring boot microservices, with approximately 50 new services being added each year. We follow ...
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Designing a Scalable Caching Layer for User and Tenant Metadata in a Messaging System
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Search requests with multiple search values
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Code reusability/inheritance introduces pointless testing
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Best way to add asynchronous execution for already implemented synchronous process
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Domain data classes with fluid property lists
Is it fine for your data models to have a sort of "open-ended" list of properties?
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Why should I never ever ever use Java serialization?
I've heard that I should never use Java serialization (Serializable/ObjectInputStream/ObjectOutputStream) because of security. What's the problem?
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Naming convention for boolean returning methods
There's a convention for boolean property accessors to name them like isX().
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Why do I need an authorisation server if my micro services can validate JWTs directly?
I'm working on a Spring-based micro service project and considering different approaches for handling authentication and authorisation. Instead of setting up a dedicated authorisation server, I’m ...
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