Coding Steve's Blog

I'm a senior software developer with about 9 years of experience doing devops and development work. This is my blog where I write posts I wish I had found online myself.

I also write on my substack, which is a little less technical and sometimes a bit more personal. You can find that at https://substack.com/@stevenpg1

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Featured

• JLink - Java Runtime Optimization Reference Guide

  Published:Jun 18, 2025 |  at 08:00 AM

  Complete reference guide for using JLink to create optimized Java runtime images and reduce application size by 60%.

• Hibernate 6.6 Breaking Changes - StaleObjectStateException

  Published:Mar 1, 2025 |  at 07:00 AM

  Spring Boot's update to Hibernate 6.6 brings with it a breaking change that could silently cause issues in projects using it.

• Spring Cloud Stream's Record Recoverable Processor

  Published:Feb 7, 2025 |  at 07:00 AM

  An example using the new RecordRecoverableProcessor class in Spring Cloud Streams for highly configurable error handling.

• Easy Spring Rest Client w/ OAuth2

  Published:Sep 19, 2024 |  at 08:00 AM

  Using the new Spring RestClient with newly supported OAuth2 capabilities!

• GraalVM Native Image Reflect Config Demystified

  Published:Apr 13, 2024 |  at 08:00 AM

  This post digs into the native-image configurations, specifically the reflect-config.json!.

• Logging Request Body with Spring WebClient

  Published:Mar 5, 2024 |  at 07:00 AM

  An article describing the latest way to log spring web client requests and responses using Logbook.

• Converting Spring Boot 2 to Spring Boot 3 Native Image w/ GraalVM

  Published:Mar 4, 2024 |  at 07:00 AM

  A walkthrough of updating a Spring Boot 2 application to Spring 3 running on GraalVM as a native application.

Recent Posts

• Building a Website Purely with Vibes

  Published:Jul 31, 2025 |  at 08:00 AM

  I'm usually skeptical of AI-generated content, but I wanted to see if I could build a website purely with vibes. Here's how it went.

• Always Set Up AuditorAware in Spring JPA

  Published:Jul 26, 2025 |  at 08:00 AM

  AuditorAware is a powerful feature in Spring JPA that allows you to automatically populate auditing fields like createdBy and lastModifiedBy. In this post, I explain why I always set it up in my projects and how it can simplify your code.

• Getting Camera Height in Cesium.js - A Complete Guide

  Published:Jun 15, 2025 |  at 08:00 AM

  A comprehensive tutorial on how to retrieve and display camera height in Cesium.js, including terrain-relative altitude calculations.

• Multiple OAuth2 Resource Servers with Spring Boot 3.5.0

  Published:Jun 12, 2025 |  at 08:00 AM

  How to configure Spring Boot to handle multiple OAuth2 Resource Servers using JwtDecoder based on token issuer

• UV - The Modern Python Package Manager

  Published:Jun 10, 2025 |  at 08:00 AM

  Exploring uv, the ultra-fast Python package manager and resolver that's changing how we manage dependencies.

• Spring Data Pagination Serialization Warning

  Published:Jun 5, 2025 |  at 08:00 AM

  A short post detailing a common serialization error and the potential solutions