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noobdevsam/README.md

Hi, I'm Sam 👋

Java & Spring Boot Developer building resilient microservices • Container-first mindset with Docker • Currently leveling up in DevOps


🧩 About

Backend-focused developer who enjoys designing cleanly separated, observable services. I care about:

  • Clear service & domain boundaries
  • Production readiness (health, metrics, logs, tracing)
  • Consistent build & deployment pipelines
  • Continuous improvement through learning and experimentation

🛠️ Tech Stack

CategoryTools / Focus
LanguageJava
FrameworkSpring Boot (Web, Data, Security, Actuator)
ArchitectureMicroservices, REST APIs
ContainersDocker
DevOps (Learning)CI/CD concepts, automation, infrastructure-as-code
ToolingGit, Maven/Gradle
Future AdditionsKubernetes, Observability stack (Prometheus / Grafana), Messaging (Kafka / RabbitMQ)


🚀 Featured Projects

ProjectDescriptionHighlights
spring-microservice-practice-ecommercePractice e-commerce platform to explore microservice designService boundaries, API layering, containerization groundwork
spring-project-steganography-toolSteganography tool for hiding/extracting messages in imagesSpring Boot + image processing, security/privacy concept

📈 GitHub Stats


🎯 Current Learning Focus

  • DevOps fundamentals (pipelines, automation)
  • Deployment strategies & container orchestration
  • Reliability patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers)
  • Future: Observability + metrics + tracing

🗺️ Roadmap

  • Add observability (metrics + tracing) to microservice practice project
  • Introduce message broker for async flows
  • Create a lightweight service template with logging + health checks
  • Expand steganography tool with encryption & batch operations

🤝 Collaboration

Interested in:

  • Spring Boot utilities & starters
  • Developer experience / tooling
  • Performance & profiling experiments

Feel free to open an issue or reach out.


💬 Connect

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noobdevsam


Thanks for visiting! ⭐ a repo if something here interests you.

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  1. spring-project-steganography-toolspring-project-steganography-toolPublic archive

    A powerful and secure steganography tool built with Spring Boot. Hide text or files in images with strong AES-256 encryption, accessible via a RESTful API.

    Java 1

  2. java-project-aetherjava-project-aetherPublic archive

    Java

  3. spring-microservice-practice-ecommercespring-microservice-practice-ecommercePublic

    Java

  4. java-practice-multi-threadingjava-practice-multi-threadingPublic

    java-practice-multithreading

    Java 1