It's this time of the year! sdk install java 25-librca

“Microservices will fix it.” Not always. @asm0dey.site explains why most apps run better as modular monoliths with Spring Modulith: clearer structure, safer tests, and less complexity. youtu.be/AkXkEIc8hw0 Curious to hear your view – microservices or monolith?

🍃 Four Approaches to Reducing Java Startup Time: AppCDS, Native Image, Project Leyden, CRaC by @asm0dey.site & @cat-edelveis.bsky.social @ Spring I/O 2025 ▶️ Video: youtu.be/UVFJ0VXWBZo 🔗 Slides: code-with-bellsoft.github.io/java-startup... 🛠️ Repo: github.com/code-with-be... #springio25

👾Flyway with Spring Boot: A Step-By-Step Tutorial Beginner- and intermediate-friendly guide to using #Flyway with @spring.io and Maven: from writing VRBU migrations to adding preconditions, placeholders, and integrating with CI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnhT...

Do you really need DTOs everywhere? @asm0dey.site explains how to hide sensitive fields, build role-based views & simplify APIs with Jackson – no extra DTO classes. Full video: youtu.be/m8He5BRmHKo

@martinelli.ch to our discussion about testing software that uses LLMs inside: github.com/Zipstack/rub...

The #GodotEngine just got a major new supporter... @jetbrains.com - one of the biggest creator of developer software, including Rider, the #gamedev IDE. Excellent news! gamefromscratch.com/jetbrains-sp...

@jbaruch and I are talking about (better) life with legacy in 5 minutes! youtu.be/ccbDPRmvVBM

It's always nice to know something from your personal history. For example, this person died in roughly 1780s. For my 6th-generation grandpa, we know the year of death, but not the date. He died in 1831

No upgrades on the horizon? Still on Java 8 or 11? This webinar is about what you can improve anyway: structure, performance, security. 📅 July 23 | 7:00 PM CEST 🎙 @asm0dey.site & @jbaru.ch bell-sw.com/webinars/jav...

It only took 15 years to make the transition between community and ultimate smoother!

OK, hear me out! Spring AI's MCP Server API is just amazing! But! I'm trying to build a native image of a local-only (studio) MCP server, and I want to build a native image from it. And it builds, without any arcane magic! But doesn't work — the list of tools gives a timeout to my client :(

This video features so many amazing people — @sergialmar.com, @martinelli.ch, @asciidwarf.bsky.social, @ddobrin.bsky.social, @cschuszter.bsky.social, @julientopcu.com — that I don't deserve to be on the cover!

Woah, this is one amazing code generator! I don't like Lombok in general, but Builder here (especially staged builder) in conjunction with records is a-maze-ing! github.com/skinny85/jilt

OK folks, who managed to make Spring AI MCP server in stdio mode work with GraalVM native image (or NIK)?

The first letter I have in my current GMail account is a letter from Trafigura with a home assignment. I deleted all the letters before and many thousands letters after. Why? 🧵 (1/15)

And this is how I know we're doing something useful!

OK, how the hell is it possible that Sora can draw a picture of a glass of wine full to a brim? No other network I'm aware of can't because there are no such photos in internet and they don't conceptualise!

I dunno folks, not sure if I really missed it

Voxxed Days Luxembourg – we're on! @asm0dey.site is speaking today at 14:45 with a dev story that starts with ChatGPT and ends in a full-blown RAG bot built on Spring AI. Don’t miss it!

Zero-days, legacy code, and no time to spare. @asm0dey.site is live at #JRush – sharing how teams handle security fixes under pressure: youtube.com/live/vW6n5ci...

I didn't even realize how much syntactic sugar modern Java contains. Look at me desugaring it and struggling youtu.be/uTQDOXCen0c

You all know falsehoods about names and falsehoods about time: www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/f... gist.github.com/timvisee/fcd... I found a friend of theirs, and it's amazing and made me think a lot: falsehoods about aviation: flightaware.engineering/falsehoods-p...

As I said, I admire and recommend self-hosting And here is one more beautiful post on the topic! www.ssp.sh/blog/self-ho...

Q: Is the Eclipse IDE required to use Eclipse Collections? A: No. Eclipse Collections is a stand-alone Java library and one of many open source projects at the Eclipse Foundation. I was asked again yesterday, and responded w/ the branding section of this blog.👇🙏 donraab.medium.com/there-is-no-...

Flyway or Liquibase? @asm0dey.site and @antonarhipov.bsky.social explore how these tools handle versioning, rollbacks, runtimes, and the real cost of migrations in Spring-based projects. Watch the full session from Spring I/O: youtu.be/U3QUxpmzxts

I've got permanent residency, hallelujah!

This is so true! Self-hosting is one of the most fulfilling things I do. And I recommend you too. dev.to/code42cate/e...

Hey Spring friends! I’m putting together a “Spring Community” starter pack, with friends of Spring, external contributors and prominent voices in the community. If there’s folks that you think I should include, please let me know :) go.bsky.app/TLqBjSF

I am Optional oracle. Unleash your inner Duke and win a limited-edition T-shirt! #Java30WithIntelliJIDEA www.jetbrains.com/lp/java-30/o...

This is an amazing improvement! Kinda reminds me of Micronaut's Predator, which Micronaut Data now :)

To those people who strongly advocate for Maven instead of Gradle, how can this diff break a simple project? Red doesn't work, green works

Aaaaand it was the last talk of May, time to wind down a bit :)

As promised, materials for mine and @cat-edelveis.bsky.social yesterday's presentation on Spring application startup time Slides: des-felins.github.io/java-startup... Code: github.com/asm0dey/hero...

To the infinity and beyond! From DevOps days Geneva to @springio.net!

Interesting fact: around 6% of these talks are with @bellsoft.bsky.social employees!

Ayayay bang-bang, as they said on TBBT /Flicking thru sweet memories of @jcon.one #jcon2025

Ooooh, you should like this puzzler, folks! What's the output of SELECT (SELECT CASE WHEN FALSE THEN COUNT(1) ELSE 42 END FROM table WHERE FALSE ) AS test_result;

To the infinity and beyond! Thank you, @jcon.one for your hospitality and opportunity to give 2 talks! Now on my way to @jprimeconf.bsky.social in Sofia!

As promised, slides from the yesterday's presentation about RAG at @jcon.one asm0dey.github.io/spring-rag-j...

You know what to do, folks!

Starting @jcon.one with @jbaru.ch and that's how it should start ;)

BTW, Kölnische Wasser schmeckt nicht gut. Aber Dom ist schön

To the infinity and beyond! From #Java day Istanbul heading to @jcon.one in Cologne (or Köln as some mispronounce it 😉)

Java is slow? Heavy? Dead? @asm0dey.site busts six #Java myths you still hear in 2025 — and shows why the JVM is stronger than ever. Watch the new episode of Java Myth Busters! youtu.be/P-XC1WiTUHs

I don't deserve to be in such an amazing @skircle.bsky.social!

Don't forget to reference this post :)

I've got a tough question for you. Does it make sense to hire junior, middle, or senior developers who don't use AI in their work? I'm talking about your typical Java/Python/Ruby developers, not JVM engineers or folks with a ton of research in their job descriptions.

Thanks unstructured.io and @mariak.bsky.social personally for a nice swag!

For years I've been telling that you can put libraries in a separate docker layer and you'll be fine I'VE BEEN LYING! What if a library is a part of your spring project? Then you will update the whole thing on every coffee change anywhere! Do you know that build packs solve this issue OOTB?