A New Chapter for the Payara Community
Payara Platform Community is now Azul Payara Community. Find out what's changing, what's staying the same, and what's new in the April and …
Week in review: 18 May 2026
New authors
Welcome to Daniel Hartmann, who published a first article on foojay.io this week.
Published this week
BoxLang v1.13.0: Compatibility, Concurrency, and Formatter Maturity
BoxLang 1.13.0 is a stability-first release with deep compatibility work and runtime hardening. This build closes 48 issues, with the …
GlassFish 8.0.2 Released: With important security fixes, other improvements, and commercial support
The latest version of Eclipse GlassFish 8.0.2 was released on May 5, 2026, with fixes for several critical vulnerabilities. It builds on top …
From Zero (Really Zero) to OpenTelemetry
Use https://github.com/dash0hq/agent-skills, the free collection of skills for AI coding agents to make applications observable with …
All Azul Zulu Container Images Explained: CA, SA, and Chainguard
Previously in this series: Trusted Java Containers: Azul Zulu OpenJDK Joins Docker’s Official Images The Road to Docker Official Images for …
Metal and Skins
A new Metal rendering backend for iOS, a browser-hosted Skin Designer that retires the skin downloader, an iOS Reminders-style…
Implementing Soft Deletes in Java
Usually, when deleting documents from a database, the entry is permanently gone and can not be recovered or accessed again. Sometimes data …
Introducing skills.boxlang.io — The Open Agent Skills Ecosystem for BoxLang & the Ortus World
Today we're launching something we've been quietly building for months: skills.boxlang.io — a public, agent-agnostic directory for AI skills …
Seasons time-lapse - the foundations
I live close to nature. I regularly go for a run in the countryside. Over several years, during my runs, I've taken pictures from the same …
Context Is a Budget — Reducing Token Usage in AI-Assisted Development
Eight levers and three workflow patterns that pay for themselves in a week.