Improve the performance of your application without really changing anything. Why do we need a connection pool? Creating a connection with the database system is an expensive and time-consuming operation when you are running a platform that experiences a large scale of users building and clearing DB connections over and over is simply not feasible. …

How to manage distributed transactions across microservices? Undoubtedly, the microservice architecture has a ton of pros when compared to the monolith architecture, but there is one thing that just works better on monolith systems and that is transactionality. Its easier to achieve ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) properties on a…

Some things we don't like to do, but we have to do! Schema alters on the production databases have always been a pain, the problem is just amplified when we are talking about millions of records, if you have run ALTERs on the production server in the past then you…

The annotation we all needed The Problem When using transactions in spring, often it is needed for some specific methods to run post the transaction is successfully committed, let's understand this with an example:- Assume there are two microservices in a system, first one manages user lifecycle, let's call it User Management…

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