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Building an Agentic Warehouse Management System — Part 1: Where AI Agents Add Value

Author: Ricardo Mello Original post on Foojay: Read More I spent a large part of my career working in banking and logistics. In logistics, I spent more than eight years working across different stages of logistics systems, from development to implementation and production support. That experience shaped the way I think about technology. Knowing a tool or framework is important, …

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Did Your AI Agent Run the Debugger? One JVM Bug, Two Agent Runs

Author: Viktoria Evdokimova Original post on Foojay: Read More Java developers reach for the debugger without thinking about it. Set a breakpoint, run the failing test, look at the variables, then decide what to change. Most AI coding agents I have watched skip that step. They read the stack trace, read the source, and propose a patch. The reasoning can …

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MongoDB Search Server, improved!

Author: Erik Hatcher Original post on Foojay: Read More In this article, we’re going to revisit and improve the MongoDB Search Server originally described in the article How to Build a Search Service in Java with MongoDB. First, let’s remind ourselves why an intermediate search service deserves our attention and effort: Search powers the most important part of your application, …

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Aggregation Optimization in MongoDB: Sorting With Indexes (Part 5)

Author: Graeme Robinson Original post on Foojay: Read More And why MongoDB might be a better relational database than you ever realized. Design reviews are one-on-one meetings where MongoDB experts deliver advice on data modeling best practices and application design challenges. In this series, we are going to explore common real-life scenarios where design reviews helped developers achieve meaningful success …

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Announcing BX-WORD: Native Microsoft Word Automation for BoxLang

Author: Cristobal Escobar Original post on Foojay: Read More Every enterprise runs on Word documents. Contracts. RFPs. Proposals. Board reports. Offer letters. HR handbooks. Compliance policies. Invoices. Statements of work. Legal memos. Today, we are incredibly proud to announce bx-word 1.0.0, a first-class, fluent, production-ready module for creating, populating, and transforming Microsoft Word documents natively in BoxLang. This is not …

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Aggregation Optimization in MongoDB: Data Duplication to Improve Read Performance (Part 4)

Author: Graeme Robinson Original post on Foojay: Read More And why MongoDB might be a better relational database than you ever realized. Design reviews are one-on-one meetings where MongoDB experts deliver advice on data modeling best practices and application design challenges. In this series, we are going to explore common real-life scenarios where design reviews helped developers achieve meaningful success …

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JavaFX Links of August 2026

Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More 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 covers all of August. We hope you had a great summer and are ready for more JavaFX news in the coming weeks! You can find …

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NetBeans DataWrangler: Query, Convert, and Edit Data Analytics Files

Author: Geertjan Wielenga Original post on Foojay: Read More Apache NetBeans DataWrangler brings the file formats of data analytics into Apache NetBeans 31: CSV, Apache Parquet, JSON and Excel, the formats exchanged with pandas, Spark, R, dbt, Power BI and Excel itself. You can query, convert, inspect, edit and analyze them without leaving the IDE. They open as documents with …

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Jakarta Faces, Java Web Framework, Stateless Edition: Marketplace AliFaces

Author: Angelo Rubini Original post on Foojay: Read More A Fully Stateless Jakarta Faces Marketplace with Server-Side Rendering — No HttpSession, No Saved ViewState, No Sticky Sessions (see the poc on: AliFaces POC Run On Oracle OCI(Nanos Unikernel)) Jakarta Faces still carries a few persistent assumptions: it is stateful, it requires HttpSession, it needs sticky sessions to scale horizontally, and …

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