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Masking a JVM thread dump without breaking the analysis

Author: Felipe Maschio Original post on Foojay: Read More A few weeks ago I posted on r/java about detecting virtual thread pinning from a plain thread dump. The technical discussion was fine. The comment that stuck with me had nothing to do with pinning: “the problem isn’t taking the dump, it’s that uploading a production dump to a third-party site …

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Debugging Is Invariant Discovery: What One Kafka Session Taught Us About AI Agents

Author: Viktoria Evdokimova Original post on Foojay: Read More #foojay-site-content for WordPress credentials (already have them from the first post). 2. foojay.io/wp-admin -> new post, paste this Markdown, Save Draft, Preview in a new tab. 3. Code blocks: “Convert to blocks” / “Code Insert”, set language Java for the two Java snippets. 4. Featured image: required. Use articles/explyt-kafka-tid-invariant/en/cover-one-symptom-ten-problems.png (1672×941, branded, …

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Community Spotlight: BoxLang Express Brings Node-Style HTTP to the JVM

Author: Cristobal Escobar Original post on Foojay: Read More If you’ve spent years in Spring Boot, Micronaut, or Jakarta EE, “web framework” usually means a servlet container, an embedded Tomcat or Netty, a build step, and a fat jar before anything answers a request. What if you could skip all of that and still be on the JVM? BoxLang Express, …

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From OpenTelemetry to DuckDB

Author: Geertjan Wielenga Original post on Foojay: Read More Observability platforms generally expect you to do your analysis inside them, using their query language and their dashboards. That works for the questions you already know you have. It works less well for the ad-hoc ones: a quick percentile, a pivot by status code, or “which service is actually eating the …

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Featured Foojay Authors for September 2026: Marit van Dijk and Graeme Robinson

Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More Foojay wouldn’t exist without the many contributions from its community, whether it’s a single post or an ongoing stream of knowledge sharing. That’s why we highlight two of them each month as Featured Authors. After Igor and Steve in July, and Cristobal and Shai in August, September belongs to Marit van …

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Bringing Raspberry Pico to Quarkus with Firmata

Author: Igor De Souza Original post on Foojay: Read More Java applications are usually associated with APIs, databases, messaging systems, and cloud infrastructure. But Java can also interact with the physical world—reading sensors, controlling LEDs, driving motors, and communicating with microcontrollers. That is the goal of Quarkus Firmata, a new Quarkus extension that connects Quarkus applications to Firmata-compatible boards such …

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From Spec-Driven Development to Living Specifications in Java Projects

Author: Maximillian Arruda Original post on Foojay: Read More From Spec-Driven Development to Living Specifications in Java Projects Coding agents have changed the speed at which we can produce software. But producing code faster does not automatically mean producing better software. As I started using agents more frequently in real-world software development, one question became increasingly important: how do we …

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Building an Agentic Warehouse Management System — Part 2: Java and Spring AI

Author: Ricardo Mello Original post on Foojay: Read More Building an Agentic Warehouse Management System — Part 2: Java and Spring AI If you arrived here without reading the first part, I recommend starting with Agentic WMS — Part 1: Where AI Agents Add Value. There, we introduced the WMS scenario, explored the replenishment problem, and discussed where an AI …

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