Atlas Online Archive: Efficiently Manage the Data Lifecycle
In the production environment, in a MongoDB Atlas database, a collection contains massive amounts of data stored, including aged and current …
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Pi-hole behind Tailscale
As I age, I become increasingly cautious about my privacy. The slope the world is sliding on is also a big, unfortunate incentive. I have …
Event-Driven Architecture in Java and Kafka
Reactive Java is well suited to modern streaming, event driven applications. In this article, we'll walk through an example of such an …
Introducing the BoxLang IDE Plugin for IntelliJ
The IntelliJ ecosystem is one of the most powerful development environments for JVM developers. Today, we’re excited to introduce the …
Introducing Lottie4J, a Java(FX) Library to Parse and Play Lottie Animation Files
I'm proud to present a new JavaFX library: Lottie4J, that brings Lottie animations to JavaFX applications. I first learned about Lottie many …
DPoP: What It Is, How It Works, and Why Bearer Tokens Aren't Enough
DPoP is one of the most exciting developments in the IAM (Identity and Access Management) space in recent years. Yet many backend developers …
Role-Based Access Control in Java Applications
In this article, we will explore how to implement RBAC at the application level, using MongoDB to store user metadata and keeping the …
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 …
I Benchmarked Java on Single-Board Computers: Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Raspberry Pi 5 Lead the Pack
In my "Java on Single Board Computers" series, I already published several posts and videos in which I unpack the board, connect it for the …
Data Enrichment in MongoDB
In a recent design review, a customer was enriching new data as it came in. As the enrichment process was fairly complex, they ran into some …