Writing on software development and anything else I find interesting.

All of my long-form thoughts on programming, content creation, and more, collected in chronological order.

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April 11, 2023

JDK 21's Major Improvement: Virtual Threads Without Pinning

Learn how JDK 21's enhancement to virtual threads that eliminates pinning with synchronized blocks can dramatically improve performance of your Spring Boot applications.

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April 7, 2023

Running AI Models Locally with Docker and Spring AI

Learn how to use Docker to host AI models instead of hitting on-web locally with your Spring Boot application, with some pitfalls along the way to avoid hitting into, and costs coming too.

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March 28, 2023

Creating Your First Model Content Protocol (MCP) Server in Java

Learn how to build and develop a basic MCP server that runs in server AI assistants with your own data and services.

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March 21, 2023

Stream Gathered to JDK 24: Building Custom Intermediate Operations for the Stream API

Discover how the new Stream gathered feature in JDK 24 provides a more elegant solution for building common composed and fundamental stream operations.

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March 17, 2023

Supercharge Your LLM Applications with Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Learn how Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables LLMs to access external data sources and tools, with step-by-step implementation guides for Spring Boot today.

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