DaShaun Carter

Your coding model doesn't need to know Shakespeare. Pratik Patel: frontier model plans and reviews, small local model writes the code. www.youtube.com/live/7eQ3eXE... #Java #AI

“Language popularity does not eliminate operational complexity.” - Krishna Nandivada #Jcon

Bench a new open-weight model on a hosted endpoint before you commit to the download. Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/7eQ3eXE... #Spring #AI

Dan Vega: a small classification model costs a fraction of a big model's tokens. It was only LLMs for ages. Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/Oa3w-Nk... #AI #Java

Dan Vega: learn a new framework by writing the code yourself. Automate after you've done it a few times. Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/Oa3w-Nk... #AI #Coding

Local models, frontier models, with #SpringAI, change a couple properties, done. Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/Oa3w-Nk... #SpringAI #Java

JSON in Java used to mean a library like Jackson. JDK 28 adds native JSON support. #SpringOfficeHours Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/Oa3w-Nk... #Java #JDK28

I really like the way Guy Korland talks about #AgentMemory in this video. The challenges, and not just his solution, #FalkorDB. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezz_...

If you need help patching ANYTHING today, if you need to vent, or you want to be distracted for a minute, you can reach out to me! My DMs are open!

Ronald Dehuysser (JobRunr): durable steps make jobs idempotent. Fail on step 3? Resume at step 3, not step 1. Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/b4_lqYy... #JobRunr #Java

Guy Pardon: no transaction, no guarantee. Crash between save and send: order stored, no shipment. Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/73v1yj1... #Java #Transactions

I’ve literally deployed thousands of Wordpress websites, but around 2016/2017 I started exporting them as static sites whenever/wherever possible because keeping up with the updates was so time consuming. #HugOps to all those patching Php today!

Guy Pardon (Atomikos): once prepared, every resource commits. No rollback after prepare. Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/qdUMzOB... #XA #Java

In 2026 provenance matters. A random Docker image won't cut it, not enterprise, startup, or home lab. Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/xqbMKNL... #SupplyChain #Java

Ronald Dehuysser (JobRunr): distributed processing for Java and Spring Boot. Give it a lambda, it runs anywhere. Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/b4_lqYy... #JobRunr #Java

I let people deploy on my Pis, but I'm not letting them bring a Dockerfile. There's a menu of trusted artifacts. Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/xqbMKNL... #Docker #Java

Guy Pardon: crash after prepare and XA recovers and commits it. No half commits. That's the guarantee. Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/73v1yj1... #XA #Java

Josh Long & Cora Iberkleid: rule-based and predictable? Don't use AI. AI needs human judgment. Guarantee the outcome in code. Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/34kWNy0... #AI #Java

Guy Pardon: @Transactional covers your JPA, not the JMS. Crash before commit: order rolls back, message ships. Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/73v1yj1... #SpringBoot #Java

Cat Edelveis (Bellsoft): hardened images ship with provenance and an SBOM, so you can verify what you shipped. Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/xqbMKNL... #Provenance #SBOM

Building a container image is no big deal: one command. Cat Edelveis (Bellsoft) on why a working image isn't a production image, and what you still have to harden. Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/xqbMKNL... #Java #Buildpacks

"the rumors of SQL's demise are exaggerated." there's more SQL than NoSQL now. don't count SQL out. Josh Long with Lukas Eder on Coffee+Software. Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/F3lKcMi... #SQL #jOOQ

Josh Long and jOOQ founder Lukas Eder: "a type-safe DSL that models SQL as a language in Java. Type-check SQL in your code." Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/F3lKcMi... #jOOQ #SQL

jOOQ founder Lukas Eder on the part nobody notices: you're not really writing SQL, you're building the expression tree that generates it. Every SQL query is dynamic, even when it doesn't look like it. #jOOQ #Java #SQL Full episode: www.youtube.com/live/F3lKcMi...

Insurance: credit, health, car, thresholds, a human to review. Josh Long and Cornelia Davis: any process with more than one step is a natural fit for workflow, and now the human in the loop might be the agent in the loop. Full episode on Coffee+Software. #Workflow #Temporal #AgenticAI

The agent isn't smart. The IDE is. IntelliJ's MCP server exposes 97 tools to agents. Anton Arhipov: youtu.be/zw_k-T1PysU #MCP #IntelliJ #AI

Anton Arhipov on how AI went from a novelty at conferences to something we take as given. Full episode on Coffee+Software: youtu.be/zw_k-T1PysU #AI #Java #JetBrains

Every decision your agent makes is recorded in a durable log. The agent can't hide from the user. Cornelia Davis on agentic workflows: youtu.be/RWVRzYJ9kCs #AI #AgenticAI #Temporal

With Temporal you write against a logical process that never goes away, even if a region goes belly up. Cornelia Davis: youtu.be/RWVRzYJ9kCs #Temporal #DurableExecution

When you ask ChatGPT for an image, behind the scenes that entire process runs on Temporal. About a billion images a week. Full episode with Cornelia Davis on Coffee+Software. #Temporal #AI #Workflow youtu.be/RWVRzYJ9kCs

My favorite thing about this #BootifulPodcast episode is when Josh has technical issues and Cornelia keeps teaching. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWVR...

He read a stranger's whole life story online, then deployed every fact at TGI Fridays the next day. "If you're half as good as that, you're hired." His first job in tech. #CareerStory #Tech #AI

We peaked at Pentium 4, then spent 25 years scaling out. Same with AI now: stop pushing the model, start surrounding it with concurrency, harnesses, and data validation. #AI #Engineering #LLM

I'm so excited to see Steve Riesenberg at KCJUG tonight! My former teammate on the Spring team, now doing amazing things at Netflix. Steve is also an incredible presenter! Don't meet me there, beat me there! www.meetup.com/kansascityju...

I'm going to be LIVE with Cat Edelveis discussing hardened buildpacks and other trusted artifacts! We need to be protecting both apps and infrastructure, quickly and safely! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqbM...

Taste is what differentiates us from machines and from each other. That's why humans stay in the loop: somebody has to know what good looks like. #Taste #AICoding #DevExperience

A coding agent triggered by every new GitHub issue is prompt injection bait. One prompt-jacked issue and your secrets are gone. Guardrails exist. #PromptInjection #GitHubActions #Security

Porting a whole app somebody built their business on, for the giggles. Andrew Lombardi: one-shotting a rewrite is a hack. Full episode: youtu.be/skObnUPT1Ic #AI #Kotlin #Java

Java eats RAM? The GraalVM native image ran the same app at 40-45MB vs Rust's 20-30MB. Comparable. Full episode: youtu.be/skObnUPT1Ic #Java #GraalVM

The JVM is blowing the doors off Rust on two cores. Taking the lead, not even subtle. Josh Long and Andrew Lombardi on Coffee+Software. Full episode: youtu.be/skObnUPT1Ic #Java #Kotlin #Rust

Scope swapping attacks work because OAuth requests pass through the browser. PAR pushes them over the back channel instead. Here's how it works. #OAuth2 #SpringSecurity #AppSec

Hardened images ship with no shell, no package manager, no download utilities. Immutable and near-zero CVEs, kept clean by a maintainer who patches on release. #HardenedImages #CVE #Containers

One command gets you a production-ready Spring Boot image. No Dockerfile, no base image, no manual layering. Buildpacks detect your source and do the rest. #SpringBoot #Buildpacks #Containers

InvokeDynamic is JRuby's switchboard. Dynamic calls get compiled to raw assembly, all inlined: Ruby into Java, Java into Ruby. Pure JVM magic. #JRuby #JVM #InvokeDynamic

Moving from CRuby to JRuby dropped one app from 20 extra large EC2 instances to 10 medium ones. Tens of thousands of dollars saved with a better runtime. #JRuby #EC2 #CloudCosts

JRuby is fully parallel on the JVM, which exposes thread-unsafe Ruby code. The fix was years of educating the Ruby community about thread-safe programming. #JRuby #Concurrency #Ruby

Instead of letting the LLM write executable code, give it a workflow language you interpret. No sandboxes, no arbitrary code. It already exists: JSONata. #JSONata #AIAgents #Workflow

Netflix is migrating its whole ecosystem to Spring Boot with AI agents: a full Claude Code workflow, not just a prompt. 60% migrated in 3 months. #SpringBoot #AIAgents #Netflix

St Louis JUG celebrating 30-years next May!!!! Today, “Agentic AI Workflows with #Embabel 1.5 and #Jev” PS: Dan Idoux showed me his new working Embabel Agent that he made during the presentation!

Use AI at its best: define success clearly and let it find the way. But the path it takes isn't always the one you want, especially for quality and reliability. #AI #AIAgents #Prompting