Traces, Tempo and the LGTM stack
Auto-instrumenting Spring Batch 6 with OpenTelemetry — four silent failures
Wiring Spring Boot 4 + Spring Batch 6 to emit job/step traces into Tempo and spring_batch_* metrics into Prometheus — and the four config traps that each failed the same way: green build, zero errors, nothing exported.
26 Aug 2026
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Spring and Java mechanics
Spring Batch 6, Hands-On: A New Engine, a Real Operator, and Stops That Cross JVMs
A code-forward tour of Spring Batch 6 on Spring Boot 4 and Java 25 — the resourceless repository, the new ChunkOrientedStep engine, Spring Framework 7 retry, the CommandLineJobOperator, and how stop and recover actually work under the hood.
28 Jun 2026
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