🚨 **Spring Boot developers — I need your opinion on a production problem** I’m working on a Spring Boot application with **JPA + PostgreSQL + Kafka**, and I’ve hit a problem that took me way deeper than I expected. Imagine this: ```java @Transactional public void createOrder(Order order) { orderRepository.save(order); applicationEventPublisher.publishEvent( new OrderCreatedEvent(order.getId()) ); } ``` The event listener then publishes the event to Kafka: ```java @Async @TransactionalEventListener( phase = TransactionPhase.AFTER_COMMIT ) public void handle(OrderCreatedEvent event) { kafkaTemplate.send("orders", event.orderId()); } ``` At first glance, everything looks fine. But here's the problem: Sometimes the Kafka event **isn't published**, even though the order was successfully created. And if the application crashes at the wrong moment, we can end up with: Database ✅ GOOD Kafka ❌ NO Now I'm wondering: Would you use **Transactional Outbox** here? Is there another Spring-native approach you'd prefer? How would you guarantee that the database state and Kafka event don't get out of sync? I'm specifically interested in how you'd solve this in a **real production system**, not just theoretically.

I was trying to run the docker-compose file from the spring boot for beginners course on intellij and I can't run it. I already installed the plug in you mentioned. Here is the error message that appeared. I'm not sure where I went wrong.

The best code is no code at all. It has no bugs, requires no maintenance, and is infinitely scalable. Before you write, ask if you can avoid it. Do you agree?

We put a junior developer through a Java interview... with an AI interviewer 👀 New video is up. I ran a full mock interview with a community member, but the twist is the interviewer was an AI. Real questions, real pressure, real feedback at the end. We covered the stuff every junior gets asked: - The four pillars of OOP - Encapsulation and how immutability ties into it - Why the String class is immutable (it's not just performance) - ArrayList vs LinkedList and the real tradeoffs - The Stream API He held his own, but there were a couple of moments where he started rambling under pressure, which is honestly one of the most common things I see in real interviews. Watch it here 👉 https://youtu.be/1YBfizdkYls Then tell me in the comments: What's the one Java interview question that caught you off guard? Or if you've got an interview coming up, drop it below and the community will help you prep. Let's get more of you from junior to hired 🚀

Big thanks @Nelson Djalo for sharing this! On the amigoscode YouTube channel Always appreciate discovering useful content thank you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC2YuBeT1-0&t=211s