Idempotent Write Paths: Keeping an Integration Pipeline Correct When Messages Repeat
A reconciliation that didn't add up Let me start with a real one. After a big sales promo, during reconciliation, finance said a batch of …
Week in review: 17 August 2026
New authors
Welcome to Yuelin Ou and Oleksandr Dendeberia, who published their first article on foojay.io this week.
Published this week
Your AI Assistant Is Choosing Your Dependencies
AI code generation doesn't just write your Java. It picks your suppliers, edits your build and pulls in ecosystems you don't know. What …
Introducing 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 …
Solving Gradle metadata and Renovate integration
My current company has settled on using Gradle. It doesn't make me very happy, but you need to learn to work with constraints. Plus, I must …
Azul August 2026 Release: Java's First Monthly CSPU
If someone discloses a 0-day CVE the day after a quarterly update, you could wait up to three months for a patched build. That gap is closed …
Aggregation Optimization in MongoDB: Optimizing Many-to-Many Relationships (Part 3)
And why MongoDB might be a better relational database than you ever realized. Design reviews are one-on-one meetings where MongoDB experts …
The Third-Generation GUI Builder: One Workspace for Every Form
Codename One's third-generation GUI Builder keeps the guided layout work from the previous editor and rebuilds the workflow around Maven …
Offline 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 …