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Add observability: real OTLP metrics/traces to grafana/otel-lgtm, Docker Compose auto-wiring, and a dual-version (Boot 4.0 vs 4.1) proof of the new OTEL_* env var support

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Companion module for the rewritten ankurm.com Prometheus/Grafana monitoring post. Verified
against a real running grafana/otel-lgtm container (not mocked): 8 real requests produce a real
orders_placed_total metric queried back from the bundled Prometheus-compatible API with zero
management.otlp.* properties, auto-wired entirely by Boot's Docker Compose service-connection
detection. Two real findings surfaced along the way and documented rather than smoothed over:
@Observed silently produces no span without an explicit ObservedAspect bean (AspectJ weaving
alone is not sufficient, despite Micrometer Tracing being active), and OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT
already worked on Boot 4.0 via Micrometer's own OtlpConfig fallback -- what's actually new in 4.1
is the rest of the standard OTEL_* surface (verified with OTEL_METRIC_EXPORT_INTERVAL against
identical source compiled on both Boot 4.0.8 and 4.1.1).

Also fixes the root README's module table, which was missing a row for
resilience4j-circuit-breaker (added in a previous commit but never indexed here).
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| [`kubernetes-deployment/`](kubernetes-deployment) | [Deploying Spring Boot 4 on Kubernetes](https://ankurm.com/spring-boot-4-kubernetes-probes-graceful-shutdown-cpu-limits-hpa/) | probe groups under a dependency outage, graceful shutdown under load four ways, JVM ergonomics per pod shape, CPU limits throttling GC, HPA on a Micrometer metric |
| [`problem-details/`](problem-details) | [Global Exception Handling with ProblemDetail (RFC 9457) in Spring Boot 4](https://ankurm.com/spring-boot-4-problemdetail-rfc-9457-global-exception-handling/) | thirteen failures under five handling setups, validation errors, i18n, content negotiation, errors outside MVC, silent 500s, decoding on the client |
| [`resilience/`](resilience) | [Spring Framework 7's Built-in Resilience: @Retryable, @ConcurrencyLimit, and What's Left for Resilience4j](https://ankurm.com/spring-framework-7-retryable-concurrencylimit-resilience4j/) | `@Retryable` and `@ConcurrencyLimit` counted invocation by invocation, retries inside transactions, where Resilience4j still earns its place, migrating from Spring Retry |
| [`resilience4j-circuit-breaker/`](resilience4j-circuit-breaker) | [Resilience4j Circuit Breaker in Spring Boot 4.1: What It's Still For](https://ankurm.com/resilience4j-circuit-breaker-spring-boot/) | the circuit breaker verified through trip/open/half-open/recover, `spring-boot-starter-aop` renamed to `spring-boot-starter-aspectj` (not removed), and where Resilience4j still beats Framework 7's own `@Retryable`/`@ConcurrencyLimit` |
| [`observability/`](observability) | [A Practical Guide to Monitoring Spring Boot Microservices: Prometheus, Grafana, and Boot 4.1's OpenTelemetry Starter](https://ankurm.com/a-practical-guide-to-monitoring-spring-boot-microservices-with-prometheus-grafana/) | real metrics and traces pushed via OTLP to a real `grafana/otel-lgtm` container, Docker Compose auto-wiring the endpoint with zero `management.otlp.*` properties, `@Observed` silently inert without an explicit `ObservedAspect` bean, and a dual-version (Boot 4.0 vs 4.1) proof of which `OTEL_*` environment variables are genuinely new |
| [`caching/`](caching) | [The Spring Cache Abstraction: @Cacheable, @CacheEvict, Key Generators and the Self-Invocation Trap](https://ankurm.com/spring-cache-abstraction-cacheable-cacheevict-self-invocation-trap/) | the self-invocation trap measured four ways, the key collision `SimpleKeyGenerator` makes easy, eviction timing under a thrown exception, a rollback the cache keeps, and where this sits next to Hibernate's L2 cache |
| [`spring-batch/`](spring-batch) | [Spring Batch on Boot 4.1: Jobs, Steps, Chunk Processing and Restartability](https://ankurm.com/) | a job that fails mid-chunk and resumes exactly where it left off across two separate JVMs, skip vs. restart on the same poisoned row, the resourceless job repository that forgets a restart ever happened, and the `chunk(int)` vs `chunk(int, tx)` builder split |
| [`spring-batch-partitioning/`](spring-batch-partitioning) | [Spring Batch Partitioning and Parallel Steps: Scaling a 10-Million-Row Job](https://ankurm.com/) | the real grid-size sweep at 10M and 300K rows (best speedup 1.42x, on 2 cores), `MultiResourcePartitioner` ignoring gridSize entirely, a rejected partition's `StepExecution` stuck at `STARTING` forever, and Spring Batch 6.0's new `JobOperator#recover` unsticking it |
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## Running any of them
Each project needs a JDK 25 and Maven 3.9. `docker-images` also needs Docker, and
`kubernetes-deployment` Docker plus a Kubernetes cluster; their READMEs list the rest:
Each project needs a JDK 25 and Maven 3.9. `docker-images` and `observability` also need
Docker, and `kubernetes-deployment` Docker plus a Kubernetes cluster; their READMEs list the rest:
```bash
cd <directory>