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Spring AI + RAG in Production: Structured Output, Ollama, and pgvector — What Actually Works
I built a production RAG pipeline with Spring AI, Ollama, and pgvector. Here's the structured output pattern, local dev setup, and the hybrid search approach that survived 6 months of real traffic.
What 3 Months of GraalVM Native Image Taught Me About Rust's Real Advantage
GraalVM gives Spring Boot millisecond startup and 75% less memory. But Rust still wins — just not where you'd expect. Here's what I learned running both in production.
Why I Stopped Using LangChain4j for Spring Boot APIs — And Started Using Spring AI
I spent weeks building a RAG pipeline with LangChain4j before switching to Spring AI. Here's the honest comparison — auto-config, pgvector, and why staying in the Spring ecosystem saved me from framework glue code.
Why I Stopped Writing Unit Tests for Spring Boot APIs — And Started Using Testcontainers
I spent years mocking repositories, faking transactions, and testing things that were already tested. Then I switched to integration tests with real PostgreSQL containers and caught 3x more bugs. Here's the honest case for Testcontainers in Spring Boot.
Spring Boot 3.x: What Actually Changed (And What to Do About It)
Spring Boot 3 dropped Java 17 minimum and brought records, virtual threads, and AOT compilation. Here's what matters for your existing apps and new projects.