Category: Hands-on / Engineering
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Hands-on: Building a “Massive” S3 Downloader with Rust
The Context A few weeks ago, while running User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with a client, we hit a simple snag that was causing a disproportionate amount of friction. The client used HTML templates hosted on an Amazon S3 bucket. Every time the user requested a copy change or a layout tweak, the team hit a…
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Hands-on: Migrating to Java 25 and Spring Boot 4.0.0
The Context Recently, a client approached me with a specific requirement: update two of their Spring Boot applications to the latest available versions. With the recent availability of Spring Boot 4 support for Java 25, we decided it was the perfect opportunity to embrace the bleeding edge. While the benefits of migrating are numerous (you…
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