Explore Spring AI SDK – Amazon Bedrock AgentCore – Part 1
Table of Contents IntroductionRole of Agentic AI FrameworksWhat is Spring AI and Spring AI SDK?What is Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Why?Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Capabilties1. AgentCore Runtime2. AgentCore Memory3. AgentCore Gateway4. AgentCore Identity5. AgentCore Policy6. Build-inTool: Code Interpreter7. Build-inTool: Browser8. Gen ...
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Crossing the River Styx: Spring Boot 3.5 and the Zombie Dependency Problem
Table of Contents The CVE Blind SpotThe River StyxThe Rules Changed. The Habits Didn’t.What This Looks Like in PracticeWhen Dependencies Become ZombiesSpring Boot 3.5: The Next CrossingWe’ve Seen This Film BeforeThe Window Is Open. For Now.The Map, Not Just the …
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Spring I/O 2026: Field Notes from Barcelona
Table of Contents Agents everywhereRod Johnson on the roadThe sessions that didn’t get the main stageA few things from the HeroDevs cornerThe documentaryWhat I’m taking home Spring I/O 2026 wrapped in Barcelona on Wednesday. Three days at the Palau de …
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Building a Kotlin App with Spring Boot and MongoDB Search
Table of Contents DemonstrationPre-requisitesWhat is MongoDB Search?Load sample datasetCreating the MongoDB Search indexTesting our index in MongoDB CompassBuilding a Kotlin applicationCreating the projectAdding MongoDB driver dependencyEstablishing a connectionCreating the repositoryCreating a serviceCreating a controllerFinal application structureApplication structureRunning the applicationConclusion One …
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Building Distributed HTTP Sessions with Spring Session MongoDB
Table of Contents PrerequisitesProject DependenciesSpring WebSpring Data MongoDBMongoDB Spring SessionApplication ConfigurationBootstrapping the ApplicationEnabling MongoDB HTTP SessionsBuilding the Theme APIRunning the ApplicationTesting Session Behavior with curlReusing the SessionInspecting the Session in MongoDBWhy This MattersConclusion Spring Session MongoDB is a library that …
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Spring Boot Actuator Health for MicroProfile Developers
Table of Contents The Conceptual BridgeThe Conceptual BridgeEndpoint MappingWriting Health ChecksWriting Health ChecksAuto-Configured Health IndicatorsResponse Format and Status CodesSecurity ConsiderationsActuator’s Extended CapabilitiesPractical Migration TipsConclusions If you worked with MicroProfile Health, you already understand the value of exposing application health information …
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Grails Isn’t Done Yet (Part 1): Inside the ASF Reboot
Table of Contents The technology we stop seeingWhy the Apache move mattersTwenty years of changing handsEighteen months of migrationOne hundred repositories become nineBeyond the code: licensing and complianceThe modernisation you might have missedWhat Grails 7 actually shipsGrails 8 and the …
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Introducing the BoxLang Spring Boot Starter: Dynamic JVM Templating for Spring
Table of Contents 🌐 What is BoxLang?✨ Zero-Config Spring Boot IntegrationGradleGradle🚀 From Controller to Template in Minutes🌐 Full Web Scopes — Out of the Box🔥 Hot-Reload During Development⚙️ Configuration That Stays Out of Your Way🔀 Coexist With Any Other View …
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No Keys, No LLM: Building a Wikidata Definition API with Embabel
I built a Spring Boot 4 REST API that defines terms using Wikidata, orchestrated by an Embabel agent—no API keys, no local models, fully reproducible.
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Cipher Downgrade: How a Tomcat Update Could Weaken Your TLS Configuration
Table of Contents What’s the risk?Who is AffectedThe FixHow to VerifyRecommendation A recent update to Apache Tomcat introduced a subtle but significant change to how TLS cipher suites are configured. If your Spring Boot application explicitly configures TLS ciphers, particularly …
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You’re invited to IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2026!
Table of Contents Day 1Day 2RegisterJoin live sessions and ask questionsRecordingsHashtags Important update: IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2026 is now scheduled for September 2026. We’re finalizing the exact dates and will share them soon. IntelliJ IDEA Conf is a celebration of …
