Introduction When I joined this project, the team was already heavily invested in Spring Batch partitioned steps to push millions of records through nightly. On paper it looked great: parallelism, shorter SLAs, and clean separation of work. In practice, one… Read More »Case Study: Making Spring Batch Partitioned Steps Truly Restartable
Introduction: Why Micronaut and Quarkus Still Run Slow in Production Micronaut and Quarkus are marketed as ultra-fast Java frameworks, and in benchmarks they absolutely deliver. Yet in real production systems, I keep seeing teams complain that their shiny new REST… Read More »Top 7 Micronaut and Quarkus REST API Mistakes Killing Performance
Introduction: Why Java JSON vs Avro vs Protobuf Performance Matters When I design high-throughput Java services, one of the first decisions I lock in is the data serialization format. The choice between JSON, Avro, and Protobuf quietly shapes everything from… Read More »Top 5 Strategies to Optimize Java JSON vs Avro vs Protobuf Performance
Introduction: Why Spring Boot Microservices Need Better Performance Strategies When teams move to Spring Boot microservices, the first wins usually come quickly: faster releases, cleaner boundaries, and independent scaling. In my own projects, though, the real test came a few… Read More »Top 7 Strategies for High‑Performance Spring Boot Microservices