There is no international standards organization that specifies the criteria a Spring Boot application has to satisfy to qualify as a microservice. The closest thing developers have to a set of ...

Novice programmers rarely see the value in externalized configuration. It's tedious and doesn't result in an immediate payoff. That means this task is often overlooked or done poorly, if at all. For ...

When you get ready to deploy an application into production, the usual thought is: what’s the easiest way to meet all the application requirements? In this case, we have three components that need to ...

Spring Framework 6.1 and Spring Boot 3.2 support Java 21, Java’s latest LTS version, while Java 17 remains the baseline. The debut of virtual threads simplifies concurrent programming and makes it ...