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How I Optimized a Spring Boot Application to

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Discover the exact techniques I used to scale a Spring Boot application from
handling 50K to 1M requests per second. I’ll share the surprising bottlenecks I
uncovered, the reactive programming patterns that made the biggest difference,
and the configuration tweaks that unlocked massive performance gains.
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Last year, our team faced what seemed like an impossible challenge: our Spring
Boot application needed to handle a 20x increase in traffic, from 50,000 requests per
second to a staggering 1 million. With only three months to deliver and a limited
hardware budget, I wasn’t sure if we could pull it off.

Spoiler alert: we did it. Our application now comfortably handles peak loads of 1.2
million requests per second with sub-100ms response times, running on roughly the
same infrastructure cost as before.

In this guide, I’ll walk you through exactly how we accomplished this, sharing the
real bottlenecks we found, the optimizations that made the biggest difference…

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Manish Kumar Singh

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 Chirag Patel
Mar 13

Its great articles!!

I have two queries if anyone can help.

1. How @Query helps to optimize performance rather than auto generated method query
2.@Cacheable works for reactive return types like Mono or Flux?
Thanks!!... more

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Jonathan Valencia
Mar 17

Performance optimization isn’t about finding one magic bullet; it’s about
methodically identifying and addressing bottlenecks across your entire system.

You got me right here!. It's really important to understand our systems, their configurations and to pay
special attention in infrastructure. Everything is part of our system. Making informed decisions makes a big
difference.

Thank you for sharing.

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Lucas Fernandes 👨‍💻 he

Mar 4

Great article !!! Concepts and examples 👏👏👏

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