The Turtle Code·Oct 29HikariCP Connection Pool Explained: 12 Mistakes That Can Take Down Your Spring Boot APIYour database can be healthy, your SQL queries can be fast, and your Spring Boot application can still stop serving requests. One of the…
Naveen Metta·Oct 15The Connection Pool Incident That Took Down Checkout for 14 MinutesA postmortem on how one innocent HTTP call inside a transaction drained HikariCP and stalled every order.
IndevdomainbyMarcelo Domingues·Oct 6HikariCP Deep Dive: Tuning Your Connection Pool for ProductionThe connection pool is the most…HikariCP is the default connection pool in Spring Boot, and it’s fast and reliable — but “default” is not “tuned.” This deep dive walks…
Grazia D'Amico·Sep 24Why Can Scaling Kubernetes Pods Overload Your Database?Horizontal scaling is one of the most familiar ideas in Kubernetes.
InBoot Camp JavabyNavya Devadiga·Sep 8Virtual Threads Just Made HikariCP Your Hard Concurrency CeilingTen connections, unlimited virtual threads, and a thirty-second default connectionTimeout. The load test passes because it never sustains…
