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One Email. Two Invoices. The 10-Month Bug Hiding Behind a Slack Alert.

• Imad ALILAT
• May 28, 2026
• Advanced

A Slack alert said “duplicate notification.”

A 2-line fix would have shipped it the same day.

Both were wrong.

save, saveAndFlush, and REQUIRES_NEW: The Hibernate Questions Hiding in One Spring Service Method

• Imad ALILAT
• May 14, 2026
• Intermediate

Last week I was reading a teammate’s PR and stopped on a method that made me realise I’d been writing Spring + Hibernate code for years without actually understanding what save, flush, commit, and REQUIRES_NEW each do.

Javadoc Best Practices for Spring Boot - 5-Minute Professional Guide 2025

• Imad ALILAT
• October 20, 2025
• Beginner

You’ve written clean code. Your tests pass. Your PR is ready. Then comes the review comment: “Please add Javadoc.”

Sound familiar?

Spring Boot Testing Strategy – Context Management & Perf Secrets (Part 2)

• Imad ALILAT
• October 10, 2025
• Intermediate

Every second saved in test execution multiplies across your entire team and CI/CD pipeline. A 10x improvement in test performance can save hours of developer time daily—transforming a 10-minute test suite into a 1-minute feedback loop.

Spring Boot Testing Strategy – Ultimate Cheatsheet 2025 (Part 1)

• Imad ALILAT
• August 2, 2025
• Intermediate

Most Spring Boot testing articles bury you in theory. This one is built for action: a battle-tested reference you can keep open while coding.