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Albert Wesker
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πŸ”„ Starting Again, But Stronger: My Spring Boot Microservices Journey

Every restart feels like a fresh challenge. This time, I’m diving deeper into production-ready technologies in Java Spring development β€” not just building APIs, but designing systems that can scale and survive in the real world.

🧩 What I’m Exploring
Eureka Server β†’ Service discovery made simple.

OpenFeign β†’ Declarative REST clients for clean inter-service calls.

Spring Cloud Gateway β†’ Routing and load balancing at the edge.

Resilience4j β†’ Circuit breakers and fault tolerance.

Docker + Kubernetes β†’ Containerization and orchestration for deployment.

πŸš€ Why It Feels New
Even though I’ve touched these concepts before, revisiting them with a production mindset changes everything. It’s not just about β€œmaking it work” β€” it’s about making it reliable, scalable, and maintainable.

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