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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 …

Table of Contents The Fluent Builder — jwtNew()The BIF FunctionsHMAC Sign and VerifyRSA Sign and VerifyJWE Encryptionalg:none RejectionHMAC Minimum Key Lengths (RFC 7518 §3.2)Algorithm AllowlistClock Skew ToleranceAuthentication MiddlewareToken Refresh with Grace PeriodKid-Based Key RotationSigning (JWS)Encryption (JWE) JWT authentication is everywhere. …

Table of Contents YouTubePodcast AppsGuest: Hector VenturaLinksContent What if you could run 35 AWS services locally in under 25 milliseconds, using just 13 megabytes of memory, with a single Docker command and no cloud bill? That’s exactly what Floci does. …

Table of Contents Where the tokens actually goThe Eight LeversA. Context engineering — scope your asksB. Prompt caching — order mattersC. Tool & MCP hygiene — every schema is a taxD. Custom instructions & skills — codify it onceE. Model …

Table of Contents 🤔 The Problem: AI Knowledge Doesn’t Scale by Copy-Paste🎓 What Is a Skill?📥 Install in Seconds: Two Paths, One Standard⚡ Option 1 — npx skills (works everywhere)🥊 Option 2 — ColdBox CLI (deep BoxLang/ColdBox integration)🔷 Core Repositories …

Table of Contents What are soft deletes?How can soft deletes be approached?Field FlaggingArchive collectionsImplementation of soft deletesJava driverCode examplesCascading to related collections Cleanup with TTL indexingPros and cons of soft deletesProsConsWrap Up What are soft deletes? Usually, when deleting documents from …