Java and Spring Boot Production Checklist
A risk-based Spring Boot go-live review covering configuration, APIs, transactions, dependencies, observability, security, and recovery.
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Java notes here focus on production backend work: Spring Boot defaults, observability, HTTP safety, metrics, error handling, and the small operational decisions that make JVM services easier to trust.
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A risk-based Spring Boot go-live review covering configuration, APIs, transactions, dependencies, observability, security, and recovery.

A production playbook to harden outbound HTTP in Java using Spring Boot 4.1's InetAddressFilter, safe DNS, and egress controls.
A hands-on Java guide to latency metrics that do not lie: histograms, percentiles, SLOs, and safe tagging with Micrometer and OpenTelemetry.