Catherine Edelveis

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YouTube video by CyberJAR Build Typed AI Agents in Java with Embabel

👾New on CyberJAR: Agentic AI on JVM with Embabel

Embabel makes it easy to build sophisticated agentic flows on the JVM guarded by strong typing and domain models. See how to integrate it into the existing Spring Boot app:

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Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

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Slop is the perfect word to describe the low-quality, high-volume, AI-generated content being thrown around.

If you don't have time to write it, I don't have time to read it.

Really?? Cool, thanks for the heads-up!

Oh cool, looking forward to see you at Spring I/O!! 🤩

Got myself a home on the web :)

edelveis.dev

YouTube video by Coffee + Software Is Your Container Security Strategy Setting You Up for Failure?

LIVE TODAY🚀 Grab a coffee and join me and @dashaun.com at 15:30 CET as we break down the 2025 State of Container Security survey from Devoxx and discuss security expectations vs production reality:
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YouTube video by CyberJAR Spring Data MongoDB: From Repositories to Aggregations

👾New on CyberJAR: Spring Data MongoDB

Take the best of two worlds: @mongodb.bsky.social and Spring Data 😍 In this video, I go from setup to projections and aggregations, so if you're starting your journey with Mongo and Spring, I got you covered:

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🏆 100 Most Watched Java Conference Talks Of 2025 A list of the top 100 Java talks of 2025 ordered by number of views.

h my, @asm0dey.site and I landed in TOP 100 most watched talks of 2025!😍 What can I say, we make a great combo

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📓 How to Create UI in Java with Vaadin: Layouts, Grids, Filters

Just published a guide on @vaadin.com : Spring boot setup, Spring Security-backed login page, tabular data display, and filter search with a demo app NeuroWatch.

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GC happens.

I start the app with SpringApplication.run(). To initialize test data, I used a Configuration class with CommandLineRunner and Order. The data never got seeded before the shell. Now to seed data, I use a Component class without the runner, but with PostConstruct on dataInit(), which works as desired

YouTube video by CyberJAR Backend Developer Roadmap 2026: What You Need to Know

👾New on CyberJAR: Backend Developer Roadmap 2026

Being a good backend dev is not about learning another language or framework. It's about mastering fundamentals that will keep your systems resilient and maintainable over time.
What are these? Watch and find out!
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I can explain in more detail, but I'm not sure if this is a bug or my stupidity

Ooh, quite some time😂 But I've been diggin in the wrong direction at first

I used CommandLineRunner at first, didn't help even with the Order annotation

Fun fact: if your Spring Boot app opens an interactive shell on startup, the data initializer (or some other startup hooks) may never fire until you exit. Used the PostConstruct annotation and everything worked.

Haven't been bitten by the lifecycle in a long time🤪

The CyberJAR channel has hit 3K subscribers🥳

Thanks to everyone for watching, commenting, and sharing - more cool JVM content from me and @asm0dey.site is on the way!

So grateful to @bellsoft.bsky.social for supporting the channel so we can connect with and contribute to the Java community💖

will do, thank you!

A very nice feature of @jooq.org - implicit joins!
No need to explicitly join child tables to retrieve parent's columns. SQL that feels like ORM :)

YouTube video by CyberJAR Sizing JDBC Connection Pools for Real Production Load

Also, check out my latest video on JDBC connection pool sizing:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iHl...

We had a great discussion with Rogerio Robetti about JDBC connection pooling specifics in microservices and possible solutions to the issues. Thank you everyone for coming! The recording is available on YouTube

Do you know how BIG is the gap between what teams want for container security and practices they implement now?

Our team surveyed 427 engineers at Devoxx 2025 on container security. The report answers the question above and reveals other key trends:
bell-sw.com/state-of-con...

Spring Data JDBC Made Easy with IntelliJ IDEA | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog In this article, you will learn how to use Spring Data JDBC by leveraging IntelliJ IDEA's powerful features and become more productive in your development process.

The Spring Data JDBC is growing and IntelliJ IDEA provides first-class support for it!
✅ Create entities from DB tables
✅ Generate scripts for Liquibase / Flyway
✅ Create repositories from usage + auto-wiring
✅ Column-to-code completion
Read more 👉 jb.gg/39id13

🔐 A Guide to Java Application Security

Discover proven approaches to securing enterprise #Java applications, from code to containers:

bell-sw.com/blog/a-guide...

YouTube video by CyberJAR Sizing JDBC Connection Pools for Real Production Load

👾New on CyberJAR: Sizing JDBC Connection Pools for Real Production Load

JDBC pools fail you in prod? Here's how to configure them for production traffic and use a database proxy Open J Proxy for centralized connection management and resilient scaling:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iHl...

I finally watched Return to Silent Hill, and I must say, I'm bitterly disappointed. It is as if the script was written by AI: a set of scenes loosely bound to each other or not bound at all, and no core idea that could hold them together.

YouTube video by CyberJAR JDBC Connection Pools in Microservices. Why They Break Down (and What to Do Instead)

👾 JDBC Connection Pools in Microservices. Why They Break Down (and What to Do Instead)

This Thursday at 6 PM CET, I'll be joined by Rogerio Robetti to discuss why JDBC connection pools fail in the reality of microservices and how to solve the issue:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j13z...

I haven't trained my SQL muscle for a while, and now, after starting a project on jOOQ, I feel like I need to go back to basics before implementing more complex stuff... Luckily, rolling back into the process is much easier with jOOQ's DSL API.