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Table of Contents Raft Roles and MongoDB’s Replica SetLog Replication: Ensuring ConsistencyCommitment and Durability in MongoDBFailure Handling and RecoveryMongoDB-Specific Optimizations in RaftConsistency Levels with RaftRaft vs. Paxos: Why Chose RaftConclusion MongoDB’s replica set architecture uses distributed consensus to ensure consistency, …

Table of Contents The shift that matters for agent commerce – From “Crypto AI” to general AIWhat changed in x402 and ERC-8004 in the last month or so?This is the moment that unlocked agent commerceWhat is still missing?What does the …

Table of Contents Cloud-Native BoxLang Has Never Been Easier💰 Production-Ready for $5/Month🎯 Who Is This For?⚡ What You Get Out of the Box🚀 Deploy in 3 Clicks🔧 Grow Beyond the Basics🥊 Why BoxLang + DigitalOcean?📖 Get Started Today🎉 Ready to …

Table of Contents The Triforce of Performance Improvements in Java 25From 8-Bit to Open World – A Parallel Journey Java Has Leveled Up (Evolved) Happy 40th Anniversary to The Legend of Zelda! 🎉🗡️ Today, February 21, 2026, marks exactly 40 …

Table of Contents What are GitHub Agentic Workflows?Security first: why this isn’t just “giving AI the keys”Live stream demos: what we builtThe quick start experienceTaking it further: porting upstream changes agentically back to a downstream projectWatch the replay! If you …

Table of Contents Less Boilerplate, More IntentSafer Type Handling and Control FlowWhy It MattersCommunity PerspectiveConclusion A community project called java.evolved was recently launched to document how common Java coding patterns have changed across releases. Instead of explaining features in isolation, …

Table of Contents IntroductionWhy “Clean Core” Still Matters in 2026Hexagonal Architecture Recap Ports: Defining What the Core NeedsThe Domain Model Must Stay IgnorantMongoDB as an Adapter — Not a RepositoryMapping Between Domain and Persistence ModelsTesting: Where the Architecture Pays OffSpring Boot …

Table of Contents OmniFish – Modern Jakarta EE Runtimes The final version of Eclipse GlassFish 8 is here, released on 5 February 2026. As a GlassFish committer, I’d like to share what it brings for the Java community and some behind-the-scenes …

Table of Contents Why a Dedicated BoxLang Plugin?Why a Dedicated BoxLang Plugin?Dual-Syntax Architecture1. BoxLang Script (.bx, .bxs)2. BoxLang Templates (.bxm)Feature HighlightsComprehensive Language SupportHTML Integration in TemplatesExpression InterpolationCode Folding SupportInstallationLazy.nvim (Recommended for NeoVim)vim-plugVundleManual InstallationFile Extension DetectionCustomizationAdvanced ConfigurationEnable FoldingBoxLang-Specific KeybindingsWhat’s Next?Community & …

Table of Contents ARM versus RISC-V?BeagleBoardsTest BoardsFirst TestsBeagleY-AI (ARM Processor)BeagleV-Fire (RISC-V Processor)BeagleV-Ahead (RISC-V Processor)PocketBeagle 2 2 (ARM Processor)Conclusion As part of my 2026 learning goals around Java on RISC-V (see this post about x86 versus ARM versus RISC-V), I’ve asked …

Table of Contents Getting the metrics rightHow we measured performance2. Java Virtual Machine (JVM) intrinsics3. Check and check again4. BSON null terminator detection with SWAR5. Avoiding redundant copies and allocations6. String Encoding, removing method indirection and redundant checks Lessons learned Co-authored …

Table of Contents What Makes This DifferentThe Gap in Java ToolingThe Original ProblemWhy Existing Tools Don’t FitHow I Ended Up Building ThisA Real-World BugHow the Bug AppearedWhy It Was Hard to SpotThe Key Insight: Frequency ≠ Resource ConsumptionHow It WorksInstrumentationThe …