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asmhatre 66208bcd97 Add caching: the Spring cache abstraction, keys, eviction timing and the self-invocation trap
A Spring Boot 4.1.1 module whose test suite is the evidence for the article: 19 tests
producing 22 transcripts under docs/output/, plus 12 documentation chapters.

Findings the build pins:
- @EnableCaching has no exposeProxy attribute; the widely-copied
  @EnableCaching(exposeProxy = true) does not compile.
- Two methods sharing a cache name and an argument type share a key space, and one
  silently serves the other's answers.
- beforeInvocation = true is NOT deferred by TransactionAwareCacheManagerProxy on
  7.0.9 - doEvict picks evictIfPresent, which the decorator does not intercept.
- Four of five invalid declarations start a clean context and throw at the first call.
- Caffeine on the classpath silently displaces the simple provider.
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spring-boot-demo

Companion code for the Spring Boot articles on ankurm.com.

One directory per article. Each is a self-contained Maven project with its own README.md, numbered documentation chapters under docs/, and captured real output under docs/output/ that a single script regenerates. Every figure quoted in an article came out of one of those files.

Directory Article What it demonstrates
actuator-in-production/ Spring Boot Actuator in Production endpoint exposure defaults, securing Actuator, custom health indicators and how they hang
spring-boot-startup-time/ Why Your Spring Boot App Takes 8 Seconds to Start BufferingApplicationStartup, JFR startup events, self time vs total time, the classpath-scan tax, the JDK 25 AOT cache
configuration-properties/ @ConfigurationProperties vs @Value in Spring Boot 4 relaxed binding measured three ways, record constructor binding, validation, IDE metadata generation
profiles-and-config/ Spring Boot Profiles Done Right the precedence stack made visible, config trees and ConfigMaps, why a profile file loses to an environment variable
spring-aop/ Spring AOP Explained every pointcut designator with real matches, JDK vs CGLIB proxies, six aspects that do not fire
docker-images/ Dockerizing Spring Boot 4: Layered Jars, Buildpacks, Distroless and Image Size Benchmarks one service packaged nine ways and measured: size on disk and pushed, rebuild delta, startup, PID 1 and signals, jlink, the JDK 25 AOT cache
kubernetes-deployment/ Deploying Spring Boot 4 on Kubernetes 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/ Global Exception Handling with ProblemDetail (RFC 9457) in Spring Boot 4 thirteen failures under five handling setups, validation errors, i18n, content negotiation, errors outside MVC, silent 500s, decoding on the client
resilience/ Spring Framework 7's Built-in Resilience: @Retryable, @ConcurrencyLimit, and What's Left for Resilience4j @Retryable and @ConcurrencyLimit counted invocation by invocation, retries inside transactions, where Resilience4j still earns its place, migrating from Spring Retry
caching/ The Spring Cache Abstraction: @Cacheable, @CacheEvict, Key Generators and the 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

Articles whose text is kept here rather than only on the blog have it under <directory>/post/post.md for the body and meta.md for the title, excerpt and categories.

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:

cd <directory>
export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/jdk-25
mvn -DskipTests package
./scripts/run-all.sh          # regenerate every transcript under docs/output/

Licence

MIT — see LICENSE.