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Improving Java support in Cursor · Cursor

Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 18h

Ever wanted AI to act like your personal museum guide?
With Quarkus, LangChain4j, and MCP, we built a Java demo where visitors:

- identify artworks from photos
- share impressions with selfies
- see live sentiment charts

Read the tutorial: buff.ly/8l6RmKq

#Java #Quarkus #LangChain4j #AI #MCP

Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 1d

Improving Java support in Cursor buff.ly/1x56UGd
#Cursor #Java #ibm #RedHat #Vscode

Built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best way to code with AI.

Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 1d

Java developers: SOAP isn’t dead — but Quarkus makes it fast and clean.
I wrote a hands-on tutorial on building a SOAP server + client with a shared contract module and DTOs.

Read here: buff.ly/jY0zwrG

#Java #Quarkus #CXF #SOAP

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 1d

If you wanna try out Project Bob, the new IBM agentic coding partner, make sure to sign up for the waitlist! 👇🏻

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#IBM #DevX #Developers

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 2d

Announcing IBM Project Bob: Ship code faster with your AI-powered coding partner www.ibm.com/new/announce...
#aiml #developers #ide #ibm

Podman Compose vs Docker Compose

Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 2d

IBM and Anthropic Partner to Advance Enterprise Software Development with Proven Security and Governance newsroom.ibm.com/2025-10-07-2...
#ibm #anthropic #ibmtechxchange

Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 2d

Podman Compose vs Docker Compose buff.ly/5NhDVSj
#podman #Docker

In this blog, you will take a look at Podman Compose. With Podman Compose, you can use compose files according to the Compose Spec in combination with a Podman backend. Enjoy!

Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 2d

Want to bring AI into your Java workflows?
Our latest guide shows how to build a secure PDF processing pipeline with Quarkus, Camel, and LangChain4j.
→ Upload PDFs
→ Scan for viruses
→ Extract + Summarize with a local LLM
Read here: buff.ly/PNvqIBG

#Java #Quarkus #LangChain4j #AI #Camel

GitHub - luismr/dictionary-search-anagrams-java: A Java library for searching anagrams in a dictionary with different implementations.

Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 3d

dictionary-search-anagrams-java: A Java library for searching anagrams in a dictionary with different implementations. buff.ly/wyywkqI
#Java

A Java library for searching anagrams in a dictionary with different implementations. - luismr/dictionary-search-anagrams-java

Coding is over. Now what?

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 3d

Ever wondered what patterns your writing hides?
In this new hands-on tutorial, we use Quarkus + DeepLearning4j to scrape and cluster Substack articles into meaningful categories.
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#Java #Quarkus #AI #DeepLearning4j #Substack

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 3d

"People asking others to ditch programming because it doesn't have a future are doing you a huge disservice. History will not look kindly on them.

[...]

It will look very different—it already does—but there's never been a better time to be a developer."

I never thought things were going to change this much. From the beginning, it was obvious that Large Language Models were not a joke, but I thought they had fundamental limitations preventing them from...

Let the Model Write the Prompt

Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 4d

Let the Model Write the Prompt bit.ly/42YwOzB
#developers #devx #llm #ai

Notes from a talk I delivered at the 2025 Data + AI Summit, detailing the problem with prompts in your code and how DSPy can make everything better.

Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java

Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 4d

From GO-BPMN to LangGraph4j →
How Java architects can finally design goal-oriented, agentic systems that adapt in real time.

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#Java #Quarkus #LangGraph4j #AgenticAI #Architecture

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 5d

Mandrel 25 is Here!

The #Quarkus team is thrilled to announce the official release of Mandrel 25! The beginning of the next LTS version of the Quarkus native builder.

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#GraalVM #Java

Mandrel 25 is Here!

Writing Your Own MCP Server - Sebastian Daschner

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 5d

Data is the hardest part of enterprise apps.
Quarkus makes it easier.

A journey from filtering to migrations, told as building a house
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#Java #Quarkus #Persistence #EnterpriseSoftware #Developers

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 6d

Writing Your Own MCP Server
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#Java #quarkus #goose

AI agent tools such as Goose allow to call tools, that is function calling that can invoke any desired behavior in external tools and applications. In this video, I’m showing how to implement your…

Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 6d

Tired of messy scheduling emails?
I wrote a step-by-step guide to build a real-time group poll app with Quarkus, REST, Qute, and WebSockets Next.
Fast, modern, and all Java.

Read it here: buff.ly/7jW5QCw

#Java #Quarkus #WebSockets #Qute #Postgres

Two strategies to succeed when AI seems to be eroding jobs around you

Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 6d

Two strategies to succeed when AI seems to be eroding jobs around you | I'd Rather Be Writing Blog and API doc course
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This past year in the tech comm community, there’s been a lot of angst about job security with AI. In this post, I argue that our roles are shifting from writers to content directors. In this new…

Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 7d

Learn more about the why and how of using Java with Quarkus for AI.

quarkus.io/ai/
#Java #quarkus

Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 7d

Ready to level up your Java + AI skills?

#IBMTechXchange 2025 is the event to explore, build and launch your next big idea.

Register now: buff.ly/Ncdp0uS

#Java #AI

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 7d

Proof of Concept ≠ MVP.

PoCs are about clarity, not code polish. In this article, I share best practices, scope guidelines, and a simple framework for running effective PoCs with Java + Quarkus.

Read here: buff.ly/B5HBJ0J

#Java #Quarkus #PoC #EnterpriseSoftware #DevEx

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Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 8d

#VerboseMode at #Dev2Next 2025 with Eric Deandrea on Quarkus and Spring buff.ly/yRNMKT3
#Spring #Quarkus #Java

Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 8d

Spring’s MockMvc is nice.
Quarkus + RestAssured is real.

No slices, no mocks — just lightning-fast, production-faithful tests.

Hands-on tutorial →
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#Java #Quarkus #Testing

The Java Developer's Dilemma: Part 1

Markus Eisele @myfear.com · 8d

The Java Developer's Dilemma: Part 1 buff.ly/kz9stbA

Me on #OReillyMedia #Radar
#Java #ai

This is the first of a three-part series by Markus Eisele. Stay tuned for the follow-up posts.AI is everywhere right now. Every conference, keynote, and