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Nobody schedules a framework upgrade, so it becomes an emergency. Leading a Spring Boot upgrade across 20+ services that eliminated 15+ CVEs: why the order of the upgrade matters more than the work in each service.
The optimisation I was sure would work did nothing. What produced a 10x improvement was measuring first and discovering the cost was in how the ORM loaded data, not in the code I had been reading.
