Real World Example

Launch Day for ShopEase

This is how a small Indian D2C brand (think a startup selling on its own site, like boAt or Mamaearth did in their early days) launches a Spring Boot backend. Every module of this course shows up in the timeline.

TimeWhat happensModule
T-7 daysload test at 2× expected traffic, fix N+1 and pool sizePerformance
T-3 daysdashboards and alerts live; payment health indicator addedActuator and Monitoring
T-1 dayproduct cache warmed on ApplicationReadyEventInternals, Caching
T-0 09:00release v1.0.0 via GitHub Actions, rolling deployPackaging and Deployment
T-0 10:15orders flow: events trigger email/SMS on a bounded poolEvents, Async
T-0 14:00payment provider slow → alert fires, fallback gateway switched by propertyInternals (@Conditional), AOP audit
T-0 23:30nightly report job runs once (ShedLock)Scheduling

Example

Status at the end of launch day:

curl -s localhost:8081/actuator/metrics/shopease.orders.placed

Example output

{"name":"shopease.orders.placed","description":"Orders placed","measurements":[{"statistic":"COUNT","value":4817.0}],"availableTags":[{"tag":"channel","values":["web","app"]}]}

Tip: Build this capstone yourself. Put it on GitHub with a README, the API table and a Grafana screenshot: it is a strong project to discuss in Java full stack interviews.