[MM’s] Boot Notes — JUnit Retries: The Good, The Bad and The Flaky Recognizing and managing non-deterministic test failures. JUnit Retries: The Good, The Bad and The Flaky Every developer knows the...

[MM’s] Engineering Weekly #45 — Smaller Artifacts, Smarter Systems From ultra-lean containers to modern JVM tooling, all about efficiency across the stack. I Cut My Docker Image by 99.7% (846MB to ...

[MM’s] Engineering Weekly #44 — Optimizing for Reality, Not Just the Model From algorithms and JVM internals to AI agents and the future of developer work I got paid minimum wage to solve an imposs...

[MM’s] Boot Notes — OpenRewrite Automated, auditable migrations to Java 25 and Spring Boot 4 Automated, auditable migrations to Java 25 and Spring Boot 4 Upgrading a large Java codebase is rarely b...

[MM’s] Engineering Weekly #43 — Investing in Systems, Not Shortcuts Career moves, JVM performance and architectural choices that compound over time. Just Get a Better Job 🎯 Featured Article 🧭 Just ...

[MM’s] Engineering Weekly #42 — Momentum, Performance and Better Defaults From personal motivation to leaner JVM services and more resilient architectures How To Stop Being Lazy And Get More Done 🎯...

[MM’s] Engineering Weekly #41 — Engineering Visibility, JVM Depth and Spring Mastery How sharing your work, mastering Java internals and evolving Spring practices compound long-term impact Publishi...

[MM’s] Engineering Weekly #40 — Writing, Threads and Pragmatic Engineering From public writing impact to virtual threads, Spring Boot 4 and rethinking engineering dogma The impact of technical blog...

[MM’s] Engineering Weekly #39 — Kotlin, Java and Spring Modern JVM development is maturing fast: better Kotlin ergonomics, safer Java and a more modular Spring ecosystem. Next level Kotlin support ...

[MM’s] Terraform Notes — Kafka as Code with Terraform and Confluent Cloud Mastering Confluent Cloud resource management with HCL. Kafka as Code with Terraform and Confluent Cloud Confluent Cloud Ka...