“Danmark Skifter is a national campaign where thousands of Danes take back control of their digital lives – not alone, but together. When we shift together, new habits become easier to maintain. And when we act collectively, we prove that change is possible.” #DanmarkSkifter @proton.me

The Java Champions Conference will take place online and it’s free to attend. I’ll be presenting about Modular RAG Architectures with Java and Spring AI. ☕️ Conference: jchampionsconf.com 📹 YouTube: www.youtube.com/@JChampionsC... 🎟️ Free Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/jchampions...

2025 was a busy year 💻 git-wrapped.com/profiles/Tho...

I like @vaadin.com for building UIs for Java applications. So much that I've been trying to use it for providing dedicated UIs for Java libraries as well. However, it seems it's not possible to define more than one Vaadin Servlet in the same application. Is that right? github.com/vaadin/flow/...

The latest release of Arconia is now based on Spring Boot 4.0 🍃

🤖 Building AI agents? You can capture WHY the LLM makes decisions—not just what it decides. #SpringAI's Tool Argument Augmenter captures LLM reasoning alongside tool calls—useful for building memory-enhanced agents. No tool modifications needed! 📖 spring.io/blog/2025/12...

Prepare your documents for RAG and GenAI applications using Docling Java and Spring AI 🍃 Learn to build a Retrieval Augmented Generation system in Java using Spring AI and Docling for advanced, privacy-focused document processing. www.thomasvitale.com/rag-docling-...

#Docling #Java 0.4.0 and 0.4.1 are out! github.com/docling-proj... completes the #DoclingServe api implementation! github.com/docling-proj... introduced validation handling! Thanks to everyone who was involved! @thomasvitale.com #AndreaCosentino docling-project.github.io/docling-java...

Let's build a RAG system in #Java using Spring AI and Docling for advanced, privacy-focused document processing. In this new article, you'll learn how to design an Ingestion Pipeline powered by Docling for loading, converting, and chunking any type of document. www.thomasvitale.com/rag-docling-...

#SpringAI Tool Search Tool - Build smarter AI apps that discover tools when they need them 📖 Blog: spring.io/blog/2025/12... 🔗 GitHub: github.com/spring-ai-community/spring-ai-tool-search-tool ✅ On-demand tool discovery ✅ Multiple LLMs ✅ 34-64% token savings @spring-ai.bsky.social

Vibe coding might sound trendy, but I think vibe coding might be one of the worst ideas in software engineering and software development in 2025... Listen to my thoughts on #VibeCoding in my latest video on the @modernswe.bsky.social channel. Watch HERE ➡️ youtu.be/1A6uPztchXk

I'm happy to share that I'll be speaking at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 with Alexandra Hou Aldershaab 🎉 Our session will focus on "The Developer’s Nightmare: How To Survive Compliance Checklists (and Still Ship Fast)". Can't wait! #KubeCon kccnceu2026.sched.com/event/2CVzp/...

A fresh new release of Docling Java is out 🚀 Among the other things, this version adds support for document chunking via the Docling hierarchical and hybrid strategies. github.com/docling-proj...

Good morning! If it's time for you to get your morning coffee how about you take a look at my new blog post about the story of Micrometer Observation? Grab it while it's hot 😀 toomuchcoding.com/post/2025-12...

Never heard about BunnyCDN... until now! Bluesky uses it, it's an European company, and has a rad website Cloudflare outages like this are ofc very good adverts for it bunny.net

Arconia for Spring Boot Dev Services and Observability piotrminkowski.com/2025/11/21/a...

It’s surprising how much YouTube pushed me to abandon YouTube. Thanks to the horrible GenAI dubbing feature always enabled (dubbing everything into Italian) and with no option to turn it off, I completely stopped watching videos from my phone. Forcing GenAI everywhere just for the hype is messed up!

The brand-new Docling Java SDK now powers the Arconia Docling module, making it possible to integrate easily your Spring Boot applications with Docling for advanced document processing and preparing data for your RAG and GenAI use cases. www.thomasvitale.com/ai-document-...

Docling is an open-source, privacy-focused solution for advanced document parsing. Using the brand-new Docling Java SDK and Arconia, I'll show you how to integrate Docling into your Spring Boot applications, and prepare documents for RAG and GenAI. #Java www.thomasvitale.com/ai-document-...

I’ve been reading Piotr’s blog for years, learning so much from insightful articles on Java, Spring Boot and cloud native development. I can’t express how good it feels to read his latest article on my Arconia framework 🤩 I feel honoured! Thanks so much, Piotr 🙏🏻 piotrminkowski.com/2025/11/21/a...

Thanks @starbuxman.joshlong.com for publishing this Bootiful Podcast episode on Spring Boot 4.0 and Spring Framework 7.0 the day of the release! spring.io/blog/2025/11... #java #spring

Spring Boot 4 looks amazing 🤩🍃 I have implemented OpenRewrite recipes to automate most of the migration process and handle the major breaking changes. You can run them with the Arconia CLI or using the OpenRewrite Gradle/Mavens plugin. Let me know what you think! I'm planning further improvements.

Myself and @0.5ritter.de are joining the Spring Office Hours podcast today. Join us in about 40 mins (12pm pacific). spring-office-hours.transistor.fm

#OpenRewrite 8.67.0 is here! 🛫 🆕 New rewrite-angular, rewrite-react & rewrite-jasperreports 🌱 Spring Boot 4.0 & Spring Batch 6.0 migrations ⚛️ React 19 upgrade recipe with forwardRef removal 🟢 Node.js crypto & util recipes ☕ Migrate all modules and formats for Jackson v3 github.com/openrewrite/...

Spring Boot 4 is here 🚀 🍃 spring.io/blog/2025/11...

Exciting first release of Docling Java 🎉

Yesterday I had the opportunity to join the Riyadh Java User Group and talk about how to build LLM-powered applications with Java and Spring AI. Thanks to the organizers for inviting me and thanks to everyone who attended! Here are the slides from my presentation. speakerdeck.com/thomasvitale...

Enhance the Spring Boot developer experience with Arconia: zero-code and zero-config infrastructure provisioning. Add one dependency. That's it! www.thomasvitale.com/arconia-dev-... #Java #SpringBoot

LLM Response Evaluation with Spring AI: Building LLM-as-a-Judge Using Recursive Advisors by @tzolov.bsky.social @spring-ai.bsky.social spring.io/blog/2025/11...

I have updated my OpenRewrite recipes to upgrade a Spring Boot application to the latest Spring AI 1.1 release. You can run them with the Arconia CLI or via the OpenRewrite Gradle/Maven Plugin. More details: github.com/arconia-io/a... @spring-ai.bsky.social

🚀 Spring AI 1.1.0 GA Released 🔧 Better MCP Integration ... 🔐MCP OAuth2 server protection 🔄 Recursive Advisors ...📦 Developer Experience: ... Over 850+ commits Kudos to the entire Spring AI community! 🙌 Find more: spring.io/blog/2025/11... @spring-ai.bsky.social

Spring Framework 7 is here 🎉🍃

One of the tools that really made a difference for me as a software engineer in the past few years is @openrewrite.github.io. Kudos to the team and special thanks to @timtebeek.github.io for introducing me to it and providing guidance for using it and working with it effectively 🙏🏻 /1

Hi everyone! An ongoing reorganization at my current employer has prompted me to seek for a new role and would appreciate your support. I'm open to remote (anywhere) and hybrid roles in Switzerland. I have 25+ years experience as a software developer, 8 as devrel www.linkedin.com/posts/aalmir...

The goal of Arconia OpenTelemetry is to provide a single dependency you can add to your Spring Boot application to get unified #Java observability with minimal configuration and maximum compatibility with both OpenTelemetry and Micrometer ecosystems. www.thomasvitale.com/spring-boot-...

I'm looking forward to presenting about building LLM-powered applications with Java and Spring AI at the Riyadh Java User Group next week 🍃 www.meetup.com/riyadh-java-...

Crossplane is now a CNCF Graduated project 🎉 Great news!

I’m looking forward to joining the Kenya Java User Group for a session on building LLM-powered applications with Java and Spring AI 🍃

In this session, I discuss Modular RAG architectures and how to implement them using Spring AI, covering also observability and developer experience aspects. It felt rewarding to share the work I've contributed to Spring AI to support these patterns. @springio.net www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQQE...

If we're having a debate, and at any point you say, "let's ask ChatGPT", then you lose by default.

Introducing Dev Services for #SpringBoot using #Arconia by @thomasvitale.com

Wow, this is the first time I make it on the front page of Hacker News! I'm glad so many people are reading my blog post announcing the open-source Java project I've been working on, Arconia, and one the main features: the Dev Services for Spring Boot. www.thomasvitale.com/arconia-dev-...

More than 50% of the articles published on the web is now AI slop... graphite.io/five-percent...

I created Arconia to enhance the development of modern enterprise applications with #Java. You can add it to an existing Spring Boot application to boost developer experience, reduce boilerplate, and seamlessly adopt cloud native patterns. Fully open source. www.thomasvitale.com/arconia-dev-...

Enhance the Spring Boot developer experience with Arconia Dev Services: zero-code and zero-config infrastructure provisioning. Add one dependency. That's it! Databases, event queues, observability platforms, AI services and more. All powered by Testcontainers! www.thomasvitale.com/arconia-dev-...

KubeCon Europe is accepting talk proposals now! And the CFP closes Oct 12! That's TOMORROW! You don’t need to be a pro speaker. You just need a story, a lesson, or an experiment worth sharing. ☆彡 My CNCF blog post on teaming up with GenAI when writing proposals: www.cncf.io/blog/2025/08...

With Dapr Workflows you can define and orchestrate activities, supporting durable execution, fault-tolerance, and observability. When you combine them with Spring AI, you can build AI agents at scale that even span across multiple apps. Interesting blog post by @salaboy.com dzone.com/articles/dur...

I'm glad to see Knative's Graduation as a CNCF project 🎉 No Kubernetes cluster is complete without Knative Serving! www.cncf.io/announcement...

🚀 Excited to share that Spring AI now has its own community-driven GitHub org! A dedicated hub where the community can incubate projects, contribute integrations, and shape the future of AI using #SpringAI. Explore & get involved 👉 spring.io/blog/2025/10...

Jackson 3.0.0 (GA) release now starting! github.com/FasterXML/ja... #java #json #xml #csv #cbor #csv