AI-assisted genealogy
My son recently came to me to brag about using AI to find our ancestors. While the results were correct, I didn't learn anything new, as it …
Week in review: 31 August 2026
New authors
Welcome to Braham Shakti and Viktoria Evdokimova, who published their first article on foojay.io this week.
Published this week
JavaFX Links of August 2026
Here are the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of August 2026. We took a summer break, so there was only one "Links Of The Week" this month, and it …
Aggregation Optimization in MongoDB: Data Duplication to Improve Read Performance (Part 4)
And why MongoDB might be a better relational database than you ever realized. Design reviews are one-on-one meetings where MongoDB experts …
Announcing BX-WORD: Native Microsoft Word Automation for BoxLang
Every enterprise runs on Word documents. Contracts. RFPs. Proposals. Board reports. Offer letters. HR handbooks. Compliance policies. …
Aggregation Optimization in MongoDB: Sorting With Indexes (Part 5)
Part 5 of our aggregation optimization series: swapping an explicit $sort for an index-backed sort cut MongoDB query time from 51ms to 14ms
MongoDB Search Server, improved!
The MongoDB Search Server for Java adds faceting, sorting, highlighting, weighted fields, and negative filters, with BSON pipeline tips and …
No Database Operations Found: What Writing a Spring Boot Analyzer Taught Me About Spring
I spent months building a static analyzer that answers one question about a Spring Boot codebase: if I change this endpoint, what does the …
Did Your AI Agent Ever Run a Debugger? One JVM Bug, Two Agent Runs
Java developers reach for the debugger without thinking about it. Set a breakpoint, run the failing test, look at the variables, then decide …
Agentic WMS — Part 1: Where AI Agents Add Value
With this project, I am not trying to build a complete WMS. Instead, I want to use a logistics scenario I know well to explore how an AI …
Building an Agentic Warehouse Management System — Part 2: Java and Spring AI
We will look at how the agent is built with Java and Spring AI, how its capabilities and boundaries are defined, how it is triggered by the …
Building an Agentic Warehouse Management System — Part 3: Tools, Decisions, and Actions
In this third and final part, we will build on the execution plan created in Part 2 and focus on the remaining stages of the agent workflow. …
From Spec-Driven Development to Living Specifications in Java Projects
From Spec-Driven Development to Living Specifications in Java Projects Coding agents have changed the speed at which we can produce …