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Phase 10
Production Engineering and Observability
Health checks, logs/metrics/traces, production safety patterns, and monitoring for backend services.
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Health Checks and Spring Boot Actuator in Production
A staff-engineer guide to Spring Boot Actuator, custom health indicators, and Kubernetes liveness/readiness probe semantics.
backend-engineeractuatorhealth
2
Logs, Metrics, and Traces: The Three Pillars of Observability
A staff-engineer guide to structured logging, Micrometer metrics, and OpenTelemetry distributed tracing in Spring Boot 3.x.
backend-engineerobservabilitymetrics
3
Resilience and Production Safety for Backend Services
A staff-engineer guide to idempotency, graceful shutdown, feature flags, and connection/thread-pool tuning in Spring Boot.
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Monitoring and Alerting: Prometheus, Grafana, Golden Signals
A staff-engineer guide to Prometheus scraping, PromQL, Grafana dashboards, golden signals, and alert design that avoids fatigue.
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