The MM Software Engineer’s Insights #2 — April 7th, 2025
Scale your back-end, secure your apps and navigate the latest in AI and open source.
Hey there! Ready for a fresh batch of insights and discoveries from the tech world? Let’s dive right into the latest happenings and cool finds.
Back-end & Performance
- How I Optimized a Spring Boot Application to Handle 1M Requests/Second: “Discover the exact techniques I used to scale a Spring Boot application from handling 50K to 1M requests per second.“
- Specifications in Jakarta Data: “How to do “specifications” in Hibernate or in Jakarta Data.“
- How Apple Pay Handles 41 Million Transactions a Day Securely: “A peek into the architecture that keeps those daily transactions safe.“
Security & Authentication
- Spring Security One-Time Token Login Example: “One-time token (OTT) authentication is a secure mechanism often used when a user needs temporary access without a permanent password.“
Database Insights
- Database Migrations in the Real World: “Database migrations are critical to modern application development and deployment, enabling teams to evolve their database schema alongside their application code.“
AI Advancements
- OpenAI and Anthropic are fighting over college students with free AI: “The AI startups are competing for who becomes the next generation’s default AI tool.“
- OpenAI adopts rival Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to data: “OpenAI is embracing rival Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data resides.“
- I tried Claude Code (3X Faster but Costly): “A first-hand look at the speed and cost of Claude Code.“
- How Japan’s Copyright Laws Allowed ChatGPT to Blatantly ‘Steal’ Studio Ghibli’s Work: “Exploring the implications of Japan’s copyright laws on AI and artistic work.“
Open Source & Interesting Projects
- Java Minecraft in the Browser: “Unmodified Minecraft running in the browser using CheerpJ. Play Minecraft in your browser!“
- Meta Open Source: 2024 by the numbers: “A look at Meta’s open-source contributions in the past year.“
- OpenNutrition: “OpenNutrition Foods is a free, public nutritional database of everyday generic, branded, and restaurant foods.“
Interesting Reads
- Kagi Search Stats: “Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi.“
- Terms of Service; Didn’t Read : ““I have read and agree to the Terms” is the biggest lie on the web. Together, we can fix that.“
- Modern Agile is Stupid: “A provocative take on why simple-minded approaches can hinder great ideas.“
- The 13 software engineering laws: “A concise collection of principles for software development.“
Originally posted on marconak-matej.medium.com.