Vlad Mihalcea

How to emulate LEFT JOIN FETCH using Record-based projections

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

In this article, I’m going to show you how to emulate a LEFT JOIN FETCH between two root entities without fetching the intermediate child entity.

I got the inspiration for this article by this comment thread on my blog.
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The best way to replace the deprecated GenericGenerator

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

In this article, I’m going to show you the best way to replace the deprecated @GenericGenerator when upgrading your application to Hibernate 7.

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Book Review – Just Use Postgres!

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

My friend, Denis Magda, wrote a wonderful book called Just Use Postgres!, and I’m glad that I got the chance to read it.

Just Use Postgres!

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The best way to clean up test data with Spring and Hibernate

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

In this article, I’m going to show you the best way to clean up test data when using Spring and Hibernate.

While it’s very common to use the @DataJpaTest annotation when implementing integration tests, in this blog post, you will see why you are better off avoiding using this annotation.

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Book Review – Troubleshooting Java

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

My friend, Laurentiu Spilca, has been working on the second edition of his Troubleshooting Java book, and when I was asked to review it, I was more than happy to do it since the book features a lot of topics that I’m also very interested in, such as performance tuning and query optimization.

Troubleshooting Java

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Twelve years of blogging

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Twelve years later!

Twelve years ago today, I decided to create this blog on WordPress.com to share whatever I was finding interesting while working as a software architect.

Prior to starting this blog, I didn’t have any writing experience, which you can clearly see in the first article I’ve ever published. However, practice makes perfect, and in time, I managed to learn how to express myself in writing, whether it was an article, a social media post, an answer on StackOverflow, or a book.

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MySQL Query Optimization with Releem

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

In this article, I’m going to show you how to optimize the queries executed by a Spring application running on MySQL using Releem.

For a short introduction about Releem, check out this previous article, in which I explained how to set up Releem to collect metrics from your MySQL database.

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Foundations of AI and Machine Learning for Java Developers Course Review

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

In this article, I’m going to review the Foundations of AI and Machine Learning for Java Developers video course from my fellow Java Champion, Frank Greco.

If you are new to AI and ML and want to get a great introduction to these topics, then you should definitely join watch the video lessons created by Frank Greco.

And, thanks to LinkedIn Learning’s generosity, until June 20, you can enroll in this video course for free.

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How to map the Oracle TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE with JPA

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

In this article, I’m going to explain how to map the Oracle TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE with JPA and Hibernate.

While the DATE and TIMESTAMP column types are suitable for mapping the LocalDateTime, the TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE column type allows us to map both the ZonedDateTime and OffsetDateTime.

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MySQL Performance Tuning with Releem

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

If your application uses MySQL and you’re interested in getting the best out of it via performance tuning and monitoring, then Releem is a very nice tool that can assist you in your endeavor.

I discovered Releem from Roman Agabekov’s posts on social media. Roman is the founder of this tool, and since his posts about MySQL performance tuning are very insightful, I decided to give it a try and see what it has to offer.

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