Java
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The Classloading Graph: Why Your Spring Boot App’s Startup Time Is a Classloading Problem and Not a Bean Problem
Startup time is nearly always blamed on bean initialisation. The actual bottleneck is usually classloading ā a graph traversal problem…
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A Guide to Using Recursive Advisors in Spring AI
AI applications often require iterative interactions with language models to refine outputs, execute tools, or validate responses. Instead of manually…
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Vector API atĀ Eleven Incubations: Why This API Takes So Long and What’s Blocking It
JEP 529 ships in JDK 26 with no substantial changes since JDK 25. After five years and eleven rounds, the…
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TheĀ LiesĀ Your JVM Profiler Tells You: Safepoints, Biased Sampling, and WhyYour Hotspot Analysis Is Wrong
You ran your profiler. You found the hotspot. You optimised it. Performance didn’t change. Here’s the precise technical reason why…
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Java Implementation of Frog River One
This article explains the Frog River One problem and explores different approaches to solve it, comparing their efficiency and practicality…
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Getting Started with Distributed Job Scheduling Using ElasticJob
ElasticJob is a distributed job scheduling framework for Java within the Apache ShardingSphere ecosystem. It uses Apache ZooKeeper for distributed…
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Fixing Spring Boot Error āThe Elements Were Left Unboundā
Spring Boot provides a flexible way to manage application configuration using external property files. However, when these properties are bound…
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Understanding subscribe() and assign() Methods of KafkaConsumer
Apache Kafka consumers can read messages from topics using two important methods: subscribe() and assign(). Understanding how these approaches differ…
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Choosing a Java LLM Integration Strategy in 2026: Spring AI 1.1Ā vsĀ LangChain4jĀ vsĀ Direct API Calls
Three genuinely different architectural postures ā and a practical framework to help your team choose the right one before you…
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