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Production Observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and Logs

Instrumenting a Spring Boot service end to end — OpenTelemetry setup, Prometheus metrics and alerting rules, Grafana dashboards, structured logs with correlation IDs, and how to design alerts that don't cause fatigue.

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Jun 26, 202620 min read

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Kubernetes for Backend Engineers: Deploying Java Services the Right Way

The Kubernetes concepts that actually matter for a Spring Boot service — probes, resource limits sized for the JVM, graceful shutdown, rolling updates, and debugging CrashLoopBackOff without guessing.

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Jun 5, 202621 min read

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CI/CD for Spring Boot Microservices: From Commit to Production

A practical, production-minded guide to building a CI/CD pipeline for Spring Boot microservices, covering tests, quality gates, Docker image tagging, environment promotion, blue-green and canary deployments, rollbacks, and secrets.

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May 15, 202619 min read