LangChain: Deconstructing RAG.

Learn how to unit test a REST API in Python. #python #softwaretesting

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. - Martin Fowler #quotes #quoteoftheday

The Hugging Face massive text embedding benchmark leaderboard.

'Book Review: The Unicorn Project' #devops

Sentence Embeddings. Introduction to Sentence Embeddings.

In this post, you will explore the Jira Rest API. You will learn how you can use the Jira API in order to generate a user based time report. #python #jira

Developers are drawn to complexity like moths to a flame, often with the same outcome. - Neal Ford #quotes #quoteoftheday

Generative AI and the software development lifecycle.

Skaffold is a command line tool developed by Google which aims to facilitate continuous development for Kubernetes applications. #kubernetes

The IntelliJ IDEA blog, news of your favorite IDE.

In this post, you are going to take a look at Jib, a tool from Google in order to create Docker images in an easy and fast way. #docker #java

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. - Henry Ford #quotes #quoteoftheday

Inside Java: News and views from members of the Java team at Oracle. https://inside.java/

In this blog, you will take a look at how you can make services aware of each other without knowing their exact location. You will make use of Eureka Server which will act as a Discovery Server. #java #springboot

InfoQ: Quality content in software engineering.

In this post, you will take a look at how you can use Google Cloud Vision from a Spring Boot application. #google #springboot #java

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture. - Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder #quotes #quoteoftheday

So You Think You Know Git by Scott Chacon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aolI_Rz0ZqY

'Book Review: The Phoenix Project' #devops

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If you want to master something, teach it. - Richard Feynman #quotes #quoteoftheday

Stop Building Vanilla RAG: Embrace Agentic RAG with DeepSearcher

In this post, you will setup a local Jenkins CI server, create a build job for a simple Spring Boot Maven project and push the created Docker image to DockerHub. #jenkins #cicd

Combine Testcontainers and Spring Boot with multiple containers #java #springboot #testcontainers

In this blog, you will take a look at how you can ensure that you run your Docker containers in a secure way. #docker #security

Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong. - Albert Einstein #quotes #quoteoftheday

CBOMkit is a toolset for dealing with Cryptography Bill of Materials (CBOM) #security

In this post, you will explore some of the capabilities of Docker Compose in order to get your developers up-to-speed for development. #docker #dockercompose

Arconia for Spring Boot Dev Services and Observability #java #springboot

Learn to apply the Performance Diagnostic Methodology (PDM), a structured approach in order to find the root cause of Java performance problems. #java #performance

Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein #quotes #quoteoftheday

OpenTelemetry with Spring Boot #java #springboot

Learn to apply the Performance Diagnostic Methodology (PDM), a structured approach in order to find the root cause of Java performance problems. #java #performance

Google Notebook LM is a powerful AI tool for interacting with your documents. However, privacy concerns might prevent you uploading sensitive data to Notebook LM. There is an open source alternative by means of Open Notebook. mydeveloperplanet.com/2026/01/19/o...

Self-contained Systems (SCS): An architectural approach that separates a larger system's functionality into many independent, collaborating systems.

In this post, I will try to explain why and when Git LFS should be used and how to use it. #git

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better. - Edgar Dijkstra #quotes #quoteoftheday

This repository demonstrates the implementation of a sample application using different architectural patterns. #java #springboot

In this post, you will learn how to use Helm for installing our application. Take a look how you can create a Helm Chart for our application and how to package it. #kubernetes #helm

Grow Beyond Senior: use your Java Expertise to Gain Autonomy and Impact the World, by Bruno Souza https://javapro.io/2025/12/09/grow-beyond-senior-use-your-java-expertise-to-gain-autonomy-and-impact-the-world/

In this post, you will take a closer look at Helm: a package manager for Kubernetes. #kubernetes #helm

Testing shows the presence, not the absence, of bugs. - Edgar Dijkstra #quotes #quoteoftheday

Free book! Testing Spring Boot Applications Demystified, by Philip Riecks #java #springboot

Which versioning scheme should you use for your software? Which version of the software is delivered to your test or production system?

Create your own AI-generated image of Duke, the Java mascot. #java

You create an MCP server, but how can you test whether it works as expected? In this blog, you will learn how you can test and debug MCP servers by using MCP Inspector. Enjoy! #mcp

That hardly ever happens is another way of saying 'it happens'. - Douglas Crockford #quotes #quoteoftheday

In this blog, you will learn how to create a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server using Spring AI. You will see with how little effort you can create your own MCP server. Enjoy! #java #springai

Another implication of Conway's Law is that if we have managers deciding on teams, and deciding which services will be built, by which teams, we implicitly have managers deciding on the system architecture. - Ruth Malan on Conway's Law #quotes #quoteoftheday