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So you’ve spent months polishing your resume, applying to every "Java Backend Engineer" job on LinkedIn, and still... crickets. Maybe it’s time to face the truth: your Spring Boot project is just another to-do list API. Let’s fix that, shall we? This blog is your brutally honest roadmap to build a real, complex, production-worthy backend project using Spring Boot. Not a tutorial for kids. This one’s for future CTOs.
So you’ve spent months polishing your resume, applying to every "Java Backend Engineer" job on LinkedIn, and still... crickets. Maybe it’s time to face the truth: your Spring Boot project is just another to-do list API. Let’s fix that, shall we?
This blog is your brutally honest roadmap to build a real, complex, production-worthy backend project using Spring Boot. Not a tutorial for kids. This one’s for future CTOs.
