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Control Planes for AI: The Missing Layer in Enterprise Java

Why Spring Boot and Quarkus applications need a Control Plane, semantic tool contracts, and zero-trust identity to become truly AI-native.

16 hrs ago • Markus Eisele

Your Java Heap Dumps Contain Plain-Text Passwords

A hands-on guide to detecting and removing passwords, tokens, and PII from .hprof files using hprof-redact.

Mar 12 • Markus Eisele

From Local Model to Java API: LLMs with Quarkus

A practical guide for Java developers to connect containerized AI models to Quarkus using LangChain4j and an OpenAI-compatible API.

Mar 11 • Markus Eisele

Quarkus 3.31 & 3.32: Performance and Security Upgrades You Didn’t Notice

Reflection-free JSON, AOT JAR packaging, advanced OIDC, Panache 2, and more production-ready upgrades you probably missed.

Mar 10 • Markus Eisele

From Standard to Smart

Transforming Quarkus Apps with AI Tools

Mar 9 • Markus Eisele and Alex Soto Bueno

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Stop Breaking at 2am: MicroProfile Done Right on Open Liberty

Most developers think MicroProfile is about annotations.

Mar 8 • Markus Eisele

Build a Real MCP Server in Java with Quarkus

A hands-on, end-to-end tutorial: Tools, Resources, Prompts, Streamable HTTP, tests, and JSON-RPC traffic logging.

Mar 7 • Markus Eisele

Stop Breaking HashSet: equals() and hashCode() for JPA in Quarkus

Production-safe entity equality patterns for Panache, Hibernate proxies, and stable hashing, with EqualsVerifier tests

Mar 6 • Markus Eisele

Stop Manual Reflection for MapStruct in Quarkus

Why the Quarkiverse extension prevents native crashes and stale mappers.

Mar 5 • Markus Eisele

The Quarkus Logging Files

From MDC correlation IDs to structured JSON and async logging. Build logs that actually help when production goes down.

Mar 4 • Markus Eisele

Fixing Panache: How Quarkus Unifies Blocking and Reactive Hibernate

A hands-on deep dive into stateless sessions, reactive repositories, and build-time validated queries in the new experimental Panache API.

Mar 3 • Markus Eisele

Stop Gluing Scripts Together: Build a Real Java Workflow with Quarkus Flow, Kafka, and Ollama

A complete, runnable Quarkus tutorial that ingests CloudEvents, calls a local LLM for sentiment, routes by policy, and pauses for human-in-the-loop…

Mar 2 • Markus Eisele

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