Spring Boot development — configuration, REST APIs, data access, testing, and building production-ready Java microservices.
A perfectly engineered microservice is useless if developers hate the API. This article covers the CLEAR framework for REST design — consistent naming, multi-layer validation, RFC 7807 error contracts, and OpenAPI documentation that turns your endpoints into a product people want to use.
Spring Boot auto-configuration feels like magic until something breaks at 2 AM. This article deconstructs the PROPS framework — profiles, property binding, bean lifecycle, and starter dependencies — so you understand every piece of the machinery running your microservice.
Every tangled codebase started as a clean idea. This article introduces the SLICED framework for layered architecture in Spring Boot, with automated ArchUnit rules that enforce boundaries for you.
