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Table of Contents A Practical Introduction to Horizontal Scaling1. Shards2. Config Servers3. Mongos RouterLarge datasetsHigh write throughputRapid data growth A Practical Introduction to Horizontal Scaling When building applications, most developers start with a single database server. At the beginning, everything …

BoxLang AI 3.2.0 is here, and it’s a landmark release. We’re shipping five major features: image generation, web search, a fluent audio builder API, a centralized agent registry, and deep MCP observability along with a suite of analytics improvements and …

Table of Contents Where Jakarta EE Comes From and Where It’s HeadedThe Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Java – Ivar Grimstad (Eclipse Foundation)Jakarta EE Meets AI: Three Angles on the Same ProblemThe Intelligent Monolith: Supercharging Jakarta EE with Local …

Table of Contents YouTubePodcast AppsGuestsLinksContent BoxLang is a modern dynamic JVM language built for rapid application development. It’s 100% Java-interoperable, compiles to JVM bytecode, and deployable anywhere from OS to AWS Lambda to Spring Boot. In this episode, we sit …

Table of Contents ApplicationsComponents, Libraries, ToolsPodcasts, Videos, BooksTutorialsConferences, PresentationsMiscellaneousJFX Central Here are the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of May 2026. You can find the weekly lists on jfx-central.com. Did we miss anything? Is there anything you want to have included in one …

Table of Contents Making AI Useful in Real ApplicationsWhat This Webinar Is AboutWhat You’ll LearnJoin the Ortus Community AI is everywhere right now, but for many development teams, the biggest question is no longer “What is AI?” it’s “How do …

Table of Contents Enterprise quality is a scaling problemLocal differences become delivery problemsNoisy diffs hurt review qualityIDE-based quality control is not enoughAI needs deterministic boundariesWhat enterprise quality gates should checkFormatting is only one source-code gateJava member ordering is harder than …

Table of Contents Let’s dive in!Simple Example – Text SearchBreakdown Table (for a ~9ms $search aggregation path through MongoT)Local DebuggingSample DataInteresting Example – Faceted Text SearchLucene Indexing Strategy + Benefits over MongoD IndexesVector Search ExampleLocal Grafana MonitoringPerformance Java Code PackagesSo what …

Table of Contents Recommended Team Workflow You know the drill. Someone opens a PR and half the review comments are about tabs vs spaces, where braces go, or why that one function has its arguments formatted differently from everything else. …

Table of Contents The Forensic Analysis: The 3 Sins of ThreadLocal1. The Spaghetti State (Unconstrained Mutability)2. The Memory Leak Trap (Unbounded Lifetime)3. The Inheritance Tax (The RAM Killer)The Missing Link: Structured Concurrency IncompatibilityExhibit A: The Zero-Waste Solution (JEP 506)The ScoreboardExhibit …

Java 17 is the new Initializr default, generated projects ship an AGENTS.md authoring skill that any AI agent can pick up (including a workflow that lets agents drive jdb against the simulator), native themes get a runtime accent palette, plus Metal follow-ups and iOS push that no longer prompts at launch.

Table of Contents The problem every Java developer knowsWhat if the library just ran inside the JVM?The ecosystem: it’s already hereEndive: a new chapter for WebAssembly on the JVMCompose, don’t rewriteGet involved If you’re running JRuby in production, you’re running …