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Pull back the curtain on the Spring Boot magic and see how the Spring Debugger plugin makes the invisible visible. 

Developing an application with AWS services can introduce significant local‑development hurdles. Often, developers don’t receive timely AWS access, or a sysadmin inadvertently grants credentials for the wrong account – only to fix the error a week later. Then, when engineers discover they still lack…

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…

Choosing the right Java runtime for your Spring Boot project might seem trivial at first glance. After all, all runtimes are based on the OpenJDK code and offer the same APIs. But not all runtimes are created equal. This article will discuss various metrics that could influence your decision to s…

Spring Boot is great for developing web services. A request handler (for example, a REST controller) is where you define methods that handle requests to specific endpoints. To test those requests, you could use an external tool, but with IntelliJ IDEA, you don’t need to leave your IDE. The integrate…