Week in review: 30 March 2026

30 Mar – 5 Apr 2026 · 10 posts · 1 new author.

New authors

Welcome to Hector Ventura, who published a first article on foojay.io this week.

Jonathan Vila Mar 30, 2026 11,741 views

Master AI agents with 5 developer best practices for building scalable architecture with MCP, subagents, context isolation, and guardrails.

Frank Delporte Mar 31, 2026 1,044 views

Here are the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of March 2026. You can find the weekly lists on jfx-central.com. Did we miss anything? Is there anything …

Erik Hatcher Mar 31, 2026 1,612 views

Full-text search powers all of our digital lives — googling for this and that; asking Siri where to find a tasty, nearby dinner; shopping at …

Nicolas Frankel Mar 31, 2026 18 views

Leading your organization to use OpenTelemetry is a challenge. In addition to all the usual project hurdles, you'll face one of these two …

Steve Poole Apr 1, 2026 2,076 views

Grails graduated to a Top-Level Apache project in 2025. Here's what the 18-month migration, Grails 7 release, and Spring Boot alignment mean …

Frank Delporte Apr 2, 2026 2,101 views

Oracle's JavaOne 2026 brought an announcement that caught some attention in the Java community: the Java Verified Portfolio (JVP), a new …

Luke Thompson Apr 2, 2026 1,655 views

This is going to be a fun, practical tutorial demonstrating how to build a Java faceted full-text search API (like the ones powering sites …

Igor De Souza Apr 3, 2026 3,797 views

Breaking news: Java has been confirmed to consume all available RAM. Developers worldwide shocked. … okay, not really. Happy April 1st. It’s …

Hector Ventura Apr 3, 2026 2,173 views

The Motivation: Why Another AWS Emulator? As Java developers, we are used to local-first development. Tools that emulate the cloud …

Geertjan Wielenga Apr 4, 2026 2,354 views

This guide walks through the complete process of deploying a minimal Spring Boot service to Kubernetes and adding full observability using …