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Spring Boot Microservices in Production: My Checklist After 5 Shipped Services
Health checks, circuit breakers, distributed tracing, graceful shutdown, configuration management, secret rotation — the checklist I run before any Spring Boot microservice goes to production. Learned through shipped code, not tutorials.
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