[MM’s] Micronaut Notes — The Micronaut Startup Sequence
What Actually Happens During Micronaut Startup What Actually Happens During Micronaut Startup Every Micronaut application starts with a simple line: Micronaut.build(args) .start(); Behind th...
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[MM’s] Engineering Weekly #68 — Java’s Next Chapter
From JVM evolution to Spring AI patterns and developer tooling The Java Story: A Film About All of Us 🎯 Featured Article 🎬 The Java Story: A Film About All of Us The upcoming Java documentary celeb...
[MM’s] Engineering Weekly #67 — Building Smarter Systems in the Age of AI
From resilient JVM architectures to production AI frameworks and engineering culture Scaling Java-Based Real-Time Systems: The Hidden Tradeoffs of Event-Driven Design 🎯 Featured Article ⚡ Scaling J...
[MM’s] Boot Notes — The Spring Boot Shutdown Sequence
Understanding the complete shutdown lifecycle from JVM hooks to bean destruction Understanding the complete shutdown lifecycle from JVM hooks to bean destruction Most developers spend time optimizi...
[MM’s] Boot Notes — The Spring Boot Startup Sequence
What Actually Happens During Spring Boot Startup What Actually Happens During Spring Boot Startup Every Spring Boot application starts with the same line: SpringApplication.run(Application.class, a...
[MM’s] Engineering Weekly #66 — Modernizing the Java Stack
From incremental JVM upgrades to AI-powered development Jurassic JDK: Migrate or Extinct 🎯 Featured Article 🦖 Jurassic JDK: Migrate or Extinct Moving directly from JDK 7 to JDK 21 often creates unn...
[MM’s] Engineering Weekly #65 — Engineering Beyond the Framework
From Java performance and AI-assisted migration to agentic systems and the evolving role of software engineers. Can Java Microservices Be As Fast As Go? A 2026 Benchmark Update 🎯 Featured Article 🚀...
[MM’s] Boot Notes — Kafka’s New Consumer Group Protocol
How KIP-848 Moves Rebalancing to the Broker and Eliminates Group-Wide Pauses How KIP-848 Moves Rebalancing to the Broker and Eliminates Group-Wide Pauses Every Kafka developer has experienced it. Y...
[MM’s] Engineering Weekly #64 — Securing the Stack
From supply-chain hardening to agent-driven development, engineering workflows are being reshaped at every layer. Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12 🎯 Featured Article 🛡️ Upcoming breaking chang...
[MM’s] Boot Notes — Spring Boot 4.1
gRPC, tracing, security and testing are now easier to adopt than ever Spring Boot 4.1 Every microservice team eventually hits the same friction point: you want gRPC for your internal communications...