Geoffrey De Smet | The Blog Pros

July 10, 2021

Static Website Generation With Java and Maven (JBake)

Last week, we migrated the entire www.optaplanner.org website (1399 files) to build with Java and Maven, instead of Ruby and Rake. On the face of it, nothing changed. But in the sources, for our team of Java developers, it is a game-changer.

Our java team can now contribute to the website easily. Within hours of completing the migration, there was already a commit of one of our developers who would rather not touch the previous source code with a ten-foot pole.

April 28, 2020

Artificial Intelligence in Java (Video): Coding on Quarkus With OptaPlanner

This JUG recording of a live coding presentation shows how to build an AI planning optimization application from scratch on Quarkus that optimizes complex timetabling problems with OptaPlanner.

It exposes a REST service and connects to a database. By the end, constraints are added one by one - causing the "Solve" button to generate radically different schedules after each addition — improving the lives of users as more constraints are taken into account.

The source code build for this presentation is available in GitHub.

Packages for Store Routines in MariaDB 11.4
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MariaDB 11.4 introduced many advanced features. One that grabbed my attention is the general support of packages for stored routines. Although this was previously available by activating the Oracle compatibility mode, now the feature is available gener... […]
Maintain Chat History in Generative AI Apps With Valkey
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A while back I wrote up a blog post on how to use Redis as a chat history component with LangChain. Since LangChain already had Redis chat history available as a component, it was quite convenient to write a client application. But, that's not the same... […]
Knowledge Graph Enlightenment, AI, and RAG
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Building an Effective Zero Trust Security Strategy for End-To-End Cyber Risk Management
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You've probably heard a lot about zero-trust security lately, and for good reason. As we move more of our applications and data to the cloud, the traditional castle-and-moat approach to security just doesn't cut it anymore. This makes me come... […]
Phased Approach to Data Warehouse Modernization
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A modernized database will help you focus on building innovative solutions rather than investing your time and effort in managing these legacy systems. Based on the scale of your existing data warehouse processes or jobs, it can be an enormous task to ... […]