Today in My Backend Journey – May 12, 2025

Hey everyone 👋
Today was another step forward in my journey to become a high-impact backend developer.

I balanced my 8-hour part-time job and still managed to stick to my learning routine. It’s not always easy, but I’ve realized—consistency matters more than motivation.

🔍 What I Focused On Today:

• Revised HashMap in Java – especially how collisions are handled using chaining and how internal resizing works. It gave me more confidence to solve map-based DSA problems.

• Solved 3 DSA problems (2 easy, 1 medium) on HackerRank. I’m focusing more on edge cases and optimizing time/space complexity now.

• Spent 1 hour learning SpringBoot Exception Handling. Explored how to build a @ControllerAdvice class for centralized error responses. Planning to implement this in my Blog App soon.

💡 A Quick Insight:

Learning daily doesn’t mean learning something big. Even 1 small concept deeply understood = huge progress in the long run. Today, I didn’t just study, I understood how Java's HashMap stores data internally. That feels like a win.

🎯 What’s Next:

• I’ll integrate exception handling and custom responses in my SpringBoot project tomorrow.

• Planning to post my Go + REST API mini project on GitHub this weekend.

🧠 Reminder to Myself (and You):

"Don’t rush. Learn it right the first time. Quality matters."

Thanks for reading. If you’re also learning Java, SpringBoot, or Go – let’s connect. We’re all on this journey together 🚀

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🔗 GitHub: github.com/Vinu2111
📌 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/vinayakgote