Building SuomiSanat With AI Agents
I built SuomiSanat, a Finnish YKI level 3 vocabulary trainer, with AI agents. Here is what worked, what took longer than expected, and what I would reuse.
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Using Oracle Database with Docker for Spring Boot Integration Testing
Learn how to run Oracle Free in Docker and integrate it with Spring Boot for reliable integration testing
Solving N+1 and Playing with LISTAGG (Oracle/H2)
An exploratory deep-dive into using QueryDSL to solve N+1, build type-safe dynamic queries, and leverage LISTAGG in Oracle/H2 for efficient read models.
Distributed Locks and Fencing Tokens — Handling Concurrency Safely in Microservices
A practical explanation of distributed locks, why they are not enough on their own, and how fencing tokens prevent race conditions in microservice architectures.
Circuit Breakers, Retries, Backoff, and Timeouts — Making Microservices Resilient
A practical explanation of timeouts, retries, exponential backoff, and circuit breakers — and how they work together to prevent cascading failures in distributed systems.