The Midnight Technician - Open-Source

[ripe eagle]

The Midnight Technician

an open-source, production-ready Java + Spring Boot microservices project built live on YouTube.

This series dives into the real foundations every Jr. Java Developer needs to level up — not just tutorials, but enterprise-grade architecture in action.

Why it’s different:

Most examples stop at “hello world” or basic CRUD.
The Midnight Technician goes deeper — we’re designing something you can fork, run locally, and expand, using real-world patterns and tools like:

Tech Stack:

• Java (25)
• Spring Boot (4.0.0-M3)
• Message Queues (Apache Kafka)
• Databases (SQL / No-SQL)
• Git / GitHub
• Docker / Docker Compose

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This isn’t another tutorial. It’s a real full-stack, microservices-style application that simulates an enterprise system for managing customers, tickets, devices, employees, hours, and invoicing — the kind of project you’d build in a professional Java role.

The goal?
To go beyond classroom examples like Landon Hotel or Spring Pet Clinic, and show how to create something scalable, rebrandable, and open for collaboration.

Whether you’re a Jr. Java Developer looking to learn or an experienced dev wanting to contribute, this project is open to collaboration. The goal is to grow together as a community and bring something meaningful to the Java ecosystem. ☕

🧑‍💻 Get Involved:

🔗 Fork the projects from GitHub: Midnight-Technician
💬 Re-watch the live action: YouTube - Live Stream Playlist
💬 Catch up on the important bits: YouTube - Live Stream Recaps

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This isn’t another tutorial.

[ripe eagle]

Little update to this project, so I made a video to break it down

Project Overview | High level look

[ripe eagle]

@shy current @flat jungle

[tired thunder]

is this repo still active @ripe eagle

[ripe eagle]

It's 100% open source, I'm not actively working on it rn, but I have ideas

[tired thunder]

Okay
Can you list them?

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Whats your project idea

[ripe eagle]

The idea behind this, was a Tech Repair company that services Customers, as well as B2B (Business 2 Business) clients.

Employee scheduling, tracking, inventory, customers items/devices, invoices, and alerts/notifications, a lot of moving parts.

My idea was to bring Juniors a way to see what an Enterprise-ready application with 11 microservices, actually work, what it looks like, and allow them to get dirty, make mistakes, and learn from.

If someone can see a better way to do something a PR (Pull Request) is welcome ☕

It's all about contributing to something that the community can use as a learning project