[MM’s] Boot Notes — SOAP in 2026
Why Contract-First Design Is Becoming Relevant Again — and SOAP Already Solved It. SOAP in 2026 Choosing between REST, gRPC, GraphQL or SOAP isn’t a personality test. It’s an architectural decision...
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[MM’s] Engineering Weekly #47 — Reinventing Foundations in the AI Era
[MM’s] Engineering Weekly #47 — Reinventing Foundations in the AI Era From rebuilding Git to rethinking Java, Spring, Kubernetes and AI-native workflows. I made my own git 🎯 Featured Article 🧩 I ma...
[MM’s] Engineering Weekly #46 — One Stack to Rule Them All
[MM’s] Engineering Weekly #46 — One Stack to Rule Them All From “just use Postgres” to modern JVM ergonomics and the agentic future of software It’s 2026, Just Use Postgres 🎯 Featured Article 🏠 It’...
[MM’s] Boot Notes — JUnit Retries: The Good, The Bad and The Flaky
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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...