One of our junior devs wrote an API that was supposed to be “read-only” and act as an internal data funnel — pull some records, transform them, pass them on. nothing that should ever come close to the database. But it corrupted the production data badly.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/satyaki_saha_367d015583da/silent-saves-how-jpa-persists-your-changes-without-you-asking-4iii)