Article 4 of the Indian Constitution Explained – Laws Related to Formation of States in India

The Indian Constitution is a dynamic and flexible document that allows the country to evolve with changing political, social, and administrative needs. One…

Article 4 of the Indian Constitution Explained

Introduction Constitution of India is the supreme law of the country. Among its many provisions, Article 4 plays a crucial role in simplifying the legal p…

Article 1 of the Indian Constitution – India That is Bharat Explained

Article 1 is the very first article of the Constitution of India and it defines the identity and structure of the country. It clearly states that “India…

Working with Date and Time in Java: The java.time Package

Before Java 8, working with dates was a nightmare. `java.util.Date` was mutable and had terrible design decisions. I remember trying to add a day to a date…

Gradle vs Maven: Why I Switched for Some Projects

For years, I was a Maven guy. The rigid structure of Maven is comforting. You know exactly where to find things. But when I started working on a project wi…

Securing Java Applications with Spring Security

Functional Programming in Java: Beyond Lambdas

When Java 8 dropped, everyone started using lambdas, but many stopped there. Functional programming is more than just syntactic sugar for anonymous classes…

Database Access with JPA and Hibernate

When I first learned SQL, I loved it. But mapping SQL results to Java objects manually with JDBC is tedious. That’s where JPA (Java Persistence API) and…

Logging Best Practices with SLF4J and Logback

Logging is often an afterthought until something goes wrong. I’ve been on calls where we were trying to debug a failure and realized the logs were either…