Creating visually appealing and maintainable PDFs on the backend has always been a challenge. Traditional tools lag in support for modern HTML and CSS, leaving us with archaic table‑based designs. This guide explores using Chromium and Playwright in a Spring Boot application to produce great‑looking …
BigDecimal is the go‑to type for holding decimal numbers. It’s used whenever high precision is required and we can’t afford rounding issues. But not everything about it is great. BigDecimal exposes a trap for developers. Let’s look at what that is and how to secure our code against it. Why do we …
Kotlin data classes have been an awesome language addition—so good that they inspired Java 14’s record classes. Kotlin data classes are a great choice to create DTOs or Value Objects, but some of their features don’t go hand in hand with JPA entities. Let’s look at why it’s a bad idea to make JPA …