Tag: java

  • Model Context Protocol Bridges LLMs to the Apps They Need – The idea of having the AI sort out which tools to use is cool. What’s also cool is that you natural language to tell the AI what the tools do and when to use them. It then sorts them out. What’s also cool is…

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  • State of Java Survey Confirms Majority of Enterprise Apps Are Built on Java Performance, Superior Java Support – ”Typically, when the topic of developing AI or ML functionality arises, people think of Python. Perhaps surprisingly, the survey found that Java was used more often than either Python or other languages. In fact, 50% of organizations…

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  • Context-switching is the main productivity killer for developers – #1 way to improve developer productivity, 30+ years running: stop interrupting them while they’re coding. // ”Research from UC Irvine shows that developers need an average of 23 minutes to rebuild their focus after an interruption fully.”

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  • “…but there are also disadvantages”

    “…but there are also disadvantages”

    This episode: AI is coming for your software job, or at least for the parts of it you actually enjoyed. Meanwhile, businesses are still stuck in pilot purgatory with generative AI, IT leaders remain unconvinced of AI’s ROI, and Java is apparently coming for Python’s AI crown. The economy may be changing not because of…

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  • After 30 years of code, Java remains an enterprise cornerstone | CIO Dive – ”Nearly 7 in 10 respondents reported more than half of their organization’s applications run on Java. Roughly half are now leveraging the programming language to build AI applications.”

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  • 2025 Is the Last Year of Python Dominance in AI: Java Comin’ – Asked if he believed Java could overtake Python for leadership in AI development, Arnal Dayaratna, an analyst at IDC, told The New Stack: “Yes, definitely, this could happen, especially since Java is unparalleled for the development of enterprise-grade, mission critical applications at…

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  • Only 1 in 10 Oracle Java users want to stay with Big Red – Dimensional/Azul survey “found the percentage of Oracle Java users considering switching to alternative JVMs or JDKs based an open approach increased from 72 percent in 2023 to 88 percent in 2024. The proportion wanting to leave Oracle reached 92 percent in…

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  • Recovering from the platform dark ages, and freaking out about cheap AI

    Recovering from the platform dark ages, and freaking out about cheap AI

    Interview: Brian Gracely Whitney and I interviewed Brian Gracely for this week’s Software Defined Interviews episode. It was a great, big ol’ basket of topics: the process of gathering and reporting cloud news, the evolution of PaaS, and the pros and cons of working at small startups versus large companies. Also: career advice, the importance…

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  • – Why Developers Are Unresponsive to Traditional Marketing – They just want to try the actual tool without a lot of bullshit. At the very least, they want to see a realistic use of it: actually typing, no business outcomes babbling.

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  • Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry’s Hidden Superpowers, Save Money with Java Native – “you can reduce  your Java app’s memory usage by 90%.  This allows your applications to use fewer resources, which directly contributes to cost savings and more compute capacity”

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  • Three fun fonts and stories of enterprise data integration

    Three fun fonts and stories of enterprise data integration

    Let’s start with some YAGV (yet another goofy video): Relative to your interests Spring AI: An AI framework for Java developers – No python? No problem. The Great Data Integration Schlep – ‘Every company has something fucked-up and dumb going on somewhere, no matter how admirable they are in other respects, and if they’re facing…

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  • [Spring AI: An AI framework for Java developers](https://www.infoworld.com/article/3540494/spring-ai-generative-ai-for-java-developers.html) – No python? No problem.

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  • Spring AI: An AI framework for Java developers – No python? No problem.

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  • A Java Language Cumulative Feature Rollup – ‘I found myself asking myself the question, “What’s every new feature Java has introduced since the last time I really cared about new Java language features?”, and didn’t find an easy answer via Google. So, I decided to create that list.’

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  • Enterprise-grade Spring, and quick AI apps with Java

    Enterprise-grade Spring, and quick AI apps with Java

    SpringOne Yesterday we put on Spring One. There’s still sessions going on, which you can watch live if you register for free. Here’s some highlights. We went over one of the most valuable products the Tanzu team has put out this year: the Spring Application Advisor. You set this up in your pipeline and it…

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  • Amazon’s CEO says their AI tool has saved them a crazy amount of time – This oddly specific, and a big deal if applicable to other organizations. // ‘The average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 plummeted from what’s typically 50 developer-days to just a few hours,” he wrote. “We estimate this has…

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  • Next Gen Application Delivery: Getting Started with Intelligent Apps Powered by AI – “Our numbers show that 65% of all enterprise developers use Java, making it essential for business-critical applications. Development frameworks, like Spring AI, enable Java developers to interact with AI models and vector databases through the framework, rather than having to learn new…

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  • 65% of developers learning to live with Kubernetes

    65% of developers learning to live with Kubernetes

    State of Spring Survey 2024 The State of Spring Survey 2024 is out, you can get it for free, of course. Spring is widely used by Java developers, and Java is widely used for enterprise app development. Thus, what Spring people are doing is relevant to what large organizations are doing in software development. Let’s…

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  • Java 17 is now the favorite brew of developers, along with – “About a tenth (9 percent) of applications were using Java 17 in production in 2023, and now 35 percent of applications are using Java 17, representing a nearly 300 percent growth rate in one year. It took years for Java 11 to reach…

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  • Most developers have adopted devops, survey says – I’ll have to look at this more, but: “29% of developers used continuous integration to automatically build and test.” This means that 71% of respondents are not automating their builds and tests. // “Grady Booch first proposed the term CI in his 1991 method, although he did…

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