Geertjan Wielenga
407 viewsRunning DuckDB's JDBC Driver in a GraalVM Native Image
DuckDB is an in-process analytical database. You add one JAR to a Java project and get a SQL engine that reads CSV, Parquet, and JSON files …
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Geertjan Wielenga
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Cristobal Escobar
275 viewsBoxLang 1.16.0 Released!
BoxLang 1.16.0 is here, closing 50 issues across new features, improvements, and bug fixes. The theme running through this release is …
Oleksandr Dendeberia
308 viewsOffline Crypto Address Validation in Java
Backend validation often starts with simple questions. Is the input empty? Does it have the expected shape? Can it be parsed? Does it belong …
Cristobal Escobar
421 viewsIntroducing BoxLang AI Explorer: A Local Catalog for Every AI Pattern
Learning a new AI API usually means jumping between scattered documentation pages, guessing at imports, and copy-pasting code that may or …
Cristobal Escobar
409 viewsBuild Secure AI Chat Applications with BoxLang, RAG, Ollama, and Amazon Bedrock with Dan Card
Build Secure AI Chat Applications with BoxLang, RAG, Ollama, and Amazon Bedrock AI demos are everywhere. Building an AI-powered feature that …
Cristobal Escobar
360 viewsBoxLang AWS, Azure, and Google Secrets Manager Module Released
Every production application carries secrets: database passwords, API tokens, encryption keys. The question is never whether to manage them …
Geertjan Wielenga
818 viewsToward a Durable Spring PetClinic
What makes a process a good candidate for durability? To answer this, we'll take the canonical Spring PetClinic and interrogate its sources.
Cristobal Escobar
490 viewsBoxLang 1.15.0 Released: Blazing Fast Strings, Runtime Portability, and much more
BoxLang 1.15.0 is a high-impact release with two big headlines and a long tail of hardening. The first headline is a massive performance …
Geertjan Wielenga
639 views"This Can't Possibly Work": What I Learned at a Temporal.io Workshop
When developers first hear about Temporal, they tend to move through a predictable sequence of emotions. First comes disbelief — the claim …
Cristobal Escobar
292 viewsBoxLang 1.14.0: Sets, Ranges, Inner Classes, and a Runtime That Talks Back
BoxLang has never stood still, but 1.14.0 is something different. This is the release where the language stops filling gaps and starts …