Raj Kundalia articles - 23 total
From println to Production Logging: Internals and Performance Across Languages and the OS
If you do not want to read the article, it is A-OK: I got interested in logging — and...
Distributed Tracing in Spring Boot: A Practical Guide to OpenTelemetry and Jaeger
TL;DR Distributed tracing helps you understand how requests flow through microservices by...
LangChain vs LangGraph vs LangSmith: Understanding the Ecosystem
Building LLM apps isn’t just about prompts anymore. It’s about composition, orchestration, and...
Understanding Model Context Protocol (MCP): Beyond the Hype
As always, I have created code repositories which will be easier to understand; also, resources much...
API Gateway vs Service Mesh: Beyond the North–South/East–West Myth
Please note that the page became big because I had questions on my own and less information would...
Micronaut Framework: The Next Generation JVM
Note: There are chances that you do not want to read the whole page and just see some code...
Quarkus: Revolutionizing Java Development for the Cloud-Native Era
In the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud-native development, Java has faced criticism for being...
Learning TypeScript by Building a Markdown Editor
When I wanted to learn TypeScript, I decided not to just read the docs — I built a small project with...
Saga Pattern — an Introduction
In the world of microservices and distributed systems, managing data consistency across multiple...
Hexagonal Architecture - Intro
Understanding Hexagonal Architecture (Ports & Adapters) Sample Code with...
Messaging Protocols Unpacked: Choosing the Right Communication Backbone for Your Application
The Challenge of Modern Application Communication Picture this: You’re building a smart...
REST vs gRPC vs GraphQL vs WebSockets vs SOAP: A Practical Guide for Engineers
In the world of distributed systems and microservices, choosing the right API communication pattern...
A Simple, Reliable Method I Use to Generate Unit Tests
When writing unit tests, I follow a quick multi-step prompting method that hasn't failed me yet. It's...
gRPC: A Modern Approach to Service Communication
In today’s microservices landscape, efficient inter-service communication is crucial. As software...
Explained: BDD and Cucumber
📝 What is BDD? Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a software development methodology...
Demystifying Domain-Driven Design (DDD): Principles, Practice & Relevance in Modern Software Architecture
Let's start with a joke: In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, few...
⚔️Lambda vs. Kappa: Choosing the Right Architectural Pattern for Your Modern Data Processing System
In today’s data-intensive world, organizations grapple with the challenge of processing massive data...
✨ What Is Vibe Coding?
Vibe coding is an AI-driven approach to software development where anyone could use plain, everyday...
How does AI tool actually search the web?
🌐 How AI Tools Use the Web: Behind the Scenes of Search-Enhanced Answers from ChatGPT, Gemini &...
How does AI tool decide when to use web search?
When you ask a question to an AI assistant, how does it decide whether to answer from its own...
Sharding with SpringBoot
Understanding Database Sharding Imagine your application has grown so popular that a...
Frameworks to write LinkedIn posts
I have written this article by using various LLMs. Prompt 1: Give me a list of frameworks that...
Exploration of Different AI Techniques
LLM, AI, ML, etc. have become so famous these days and everyone is jumping on to it and having their...