Getting Started with Exposed: Kotlin ORM Made Simple
Learn how to use Exposed, a lightweight SQL ORM for Kotlin. Discover DSL and DAO APIs, database support, and setup your first project.
Week in review: 6 July 2026
New authors
Welcome to Kirk Pepperdine, who published a first article on foojay.io this week.
Published this week
1,603 viewsA Week of Housekeeping: What Changed on Foojay.io
Running a community website is a bit like maintaining a codebase: the content that matters most is never completely done. And if you don't …
Closing the Visual Gap Between the Official Lottie Webplayer and Lottie4J
A Lottie library is only as good as its output looks. If an animation renders differently in Lottie4J than it does in the official web …
Why We Moved Our Timefold Java Worker Pods from AMD to ARM64
AMD hyperthreading caused solver performance variance in our Java based cloud pods. Switching to ARM instances doubled throughput per …
What's New in actions/setup-java 5.4 and 5.5: Signature Verification, Kona JDK, and a Better Maven Experience
If you build Java on GitHub Actions, actions/setup-java is almost certainly the first step in your workflow. It installs a JDK, wires up …
The Java Story: A Film About All of Us
The official Java documentary premieres July 17 on YouTube. Watch the trailer, meet the guests, and join the live chat with James Gosling.
Nulling Out References Won't Help Your Garbage Collector
Learn how intricate and amazing the JVM is and how much cognitive load that it takes on so you rarely have to think about things that steal …
BoxLang 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 …
"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 …
More Surfaces, Same Deal: Cars, Sensors, Commerce, Video And Builds
This week's release adds car dashboards, motion sensors, desktop-class input, foldables, Commerce, Secrets, versioned builds, and real video …
When NOT TO USE Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
Learn when not to use Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), from simple CRUD apps to strong consistency, immediate responses, and operational …
Temporal Is to Your Code What a Database Is to Your Data
Your database made your data durable. Temporal does the same for your code.