Most tutorials teach you how to build a Spring Boot app.
But nobody tells you what to do when it breaks in production.
I built a repo that covers exactly that 👇
What's inside?
Each pattern has:
- ✅ Working Spring Boot code
- ✅ Docker Compose setup
- ✅ When to use & when NOT to use
Patterns covered
1. Circuit Breaker
When a downstream service fails repeatedly, stop calling it.
Prevent cascading failures across your entire system.
2. Rate Limiting
Control how many requests a client can make per minute.
Protect your API from abuse and traffic spikes.
3. Retry Logic
Network calls fail sometimes. Automatically retry with backoff
instead of returning an error on first failure.
4. Idempotency
User clicked "Pay" twice? Same request came twice from network retry?
Process it only once — return cached response for duplicates.
5. Caching
Same data requested 1000 times? Don't hit the DB 1000 times.
First call fetches from DB, rest served from cache instantly.
6. Bulkhead
One slow service consuming all threads?
Isolate each service into its own thread pool — failures stay contained.
GitHub Repo
👉 spring-boot-production-patterns
More patterns coming soon — Health Check, Saga, Throttling.
Feedback welcome! ⭐ Star if it helped you.