Everybody agree about the fact that Java is verbose but yet a great language that is widly used over the industry. The version 8 introduced a lot of stuff that helps developers reduce de verbosity of their code.

An elegant way to implement tests for a Spring-Boot based applications is to use TestContainers to simply test database interactions and Spock framework to write truly expressive tests that can be used as the application’s living documentation (always up to date otherwise the build fails).

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness.