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2026-07-01

Migrating from Synchronous REST to Kafka-based Messaging

Lessons learned migrating a Java Spring Boot microservices workflow from synchronous REST APIs to asynchronous Apache Kafka messaging — improving throughput, fault tolerance, decoupling, observability, and scalability in a distributed system.

Apache KafkaJavaSpring BootMicroservicesDistributed SystemsEvent-driven ArchitectureREST APIFault ToleranceScalability

2026-06-15

Building a RAG Pipeline with Spring Boot and pgvector

How I built Git Archaeologist — an AI-powered developer tool using Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL with pgvector, vector embeddings, similarity search, OpenAI API, and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to answer natural-language questions about Git repositories.

RAGRetrieval Augmented GenerationJavaSpring BootPostgreSQLpgvectorVector EmbeddingsSimilarity SearchOpenAI APILLMAI EngineeringDeveloper Tools