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Database migrations are critical to modern application development and deployment, enabling teams to evolve their database schema alongside their application code. However, as systems grow in complexity and scale, managing migrations becomes increasingly challenging. At scale, a simple schema update…

Testing is a crucial part of software development, verifying that a system functions as intended. Developers create unit tests to validate the behavior of individual components, isolating them from external dependencies such as file systems, databases, message brokers, and third-party APIs. However,…

Developers usually spend more time reading existing code than writing new code. To understand the existing codebase of an application, developers spend a good amount of time looking at how various frameworks and libraries are configured and how different components interact with each other. While…

Most software applications use SQL databases on account of their reliability, consistency, and maturity when it comes to handling structured data. The database schema evolves over time as business requirements change to add new features or update existing ones. Object-relational mapping (ORM) fra…

Spring Boot is an application framework for the Java platform designed to make it easy to build Spring-powered applications. Its opinionated convention-over-configuration approach to building Spring applications improves developer productivity. IntelliJ IDEA provides extensive coding assistance f…