Planet Ingres

July 22, 2025

Nikos Vaggalis - Azul And ChainGuard Team Up

 ...to secure Java container images that incorporate Azul’s build of OpenJDK.

This is not something new for Chainguard. As we examined back in July 2024 in Chainguard Images Now Come With JCK Certified Java:


https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18193-azul-and-chainguard-team-up.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at July 22, 2025 07:12 PM

July 21, 2025

Nikos Vaggalis - Agentic AI For PostgreSQL

 Agentic AI and MPC are coming to the database. We examine two options that will allow you to diagnose and tweak PostgreSQL, the modern way.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/18191-agentic-ai-for-postgresql.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at July 21, 2025 05:00 PM

July 17, 2025

July 09, 2025

June 30, 2025

Nikos Vaggalis - MCP Developers Summit - The Talks

 MCP has taken the industry by storm just one year after its appearance. And now we have an MCP Summit, run by the trend setters themselves!

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/18170-mcp-developers-summit-the-talks.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at June 30, 2025 05:12 PM

Nikos Vaggalis - Two Tools To Elevate Your MongoDB Experience

 The tools contradict each other; the first one allows you to write SQL instead of using Mongo's special syntax, while the other allows you to manipulate the database without having to write SQL and by just employing natural language.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18151-two-tools-to-elevate-your-mongodb-experience.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at June 30, 2025 05:07 PM

June 27, 2025

Nikos Vaggalis - MCP For Beginners Course

 This course, provided by Microsoft, is based on a Github repository full of invaluable information that introduces MCP, Model Context Protocol, to beginners

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18137-mcp-for-beginners-course.html


by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at June 27, 2025 05:26 PM

June 24, 2025

Nikos Vaggalis - pg_disatch - Run SQL Queries Asynchronously On PostgreSQL

 pg_disatch is meant to be a TLE-compliant alternative to pg_later but built on top of pg_cron. What makes it different?

A couple of years back we've explored the pg_later extension which allows you to:

Run native async queries within PostgreSQL, thus shifting this functionality from the application layer to the database layer making it a feature of Postgres itself.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/18129-pgdisatch-run-sql-queries-asynchronously-on-postgresql.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at June 24, 2025 07:01 PM

June 19, 2025

Nikos Vaggalis - jaz - Faster Java For The Cloud

 Microsoft has just released jaz, a JVM launcher optimized for Azure that promises to speed up your cloud-based applications.

As we've repeatedly stated, Java and cloud workloads go hand in hand, just loved by the enterprise. However one issue that still persists is how to tweak the JVM for better throughput, because in the cloud environment every milisecond counts.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18120-jaz-faster-java-for-the-cloud.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at June 19, 2025 08:02 PM

June 17, 2025

Nikos Vaggalis - Kotlin And Spring - A Love Story Unfolds

 JetBrains has made special arrangements with Spring to facilitate the framework's better integration with the Kotlin language. What can we expect from this new partnership?

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18113-kotlin-and-spring-a-love-story-unfolds.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at June 17, 2025 11:43 AM