This article will show how to use Spring AI support for MCP (Model Context Protocol) in Spring Boot server-side and client-side applications. You will learn how to serve tools and prompts on the server side and discover them on the client-side Spring AI application. The Model Context Protocol is a standard for managing contextual interactions with AI models. It provides a standardized way to connect AI models to external data sources and tools. It can help with building complex workflows on top of LLMs. Spring AI MCP extends the MCP Java SDK and provides client and server Spring Boot starters.…
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I’m not looking for a job, but I ran across an article about using AI tools for a job search. So I decided to try it out. I followed a couple of those prompts and get some results. Here is a set of things I did.Salary CalculatorsI ran this prompt from the article: What are some of the best salary calculators for a Data/SQL Server professional? Provide a list of your top 4 recommendations and the pros and cons of each one. Provide any helpful links. Format as a table.The results? Mixed. Here is what I got from my local…
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, March 17th, 2025, CyberNewsWireCyberattacks are no longer an abstract threat – they dominate risk planning for companies worldwide. The latest Link11 European Cyber Report shows an alarming trend: the number of DDoS attacks has more than doubled, and they are shorter, more targeted, and more technically sophisticated. Organizations that do not continuously evolve their security strategies face significant financial losses and long-term reputational damage. The numbers speak for themselves: 137% more DDoS attacks on the Link11 network compared to last year.A new scale has been reached: The largest attack measured to date was 1.4 terabits per second…
Redo Rescue (formerly Redo Backup and Recovery) is a powerful and user-friendly backup and disaster recovery solution that provides a simple, easy-to-use interface that anyone can navigate. Whether you’re using Linux or Windows, Redo Rescue supports bare-metal restores, meaning you can fully recover your system even if your hard drive fails or gets corrupted within minutes. With Redo Rescue, all your files, settings, and system configurations will be restored to the exact state they were in when the most recent backup was taken. The software runs as a live ISO image, built on Debian, and provides a graphical interface for…
⭐ Who we are Lodgify is not just any startup, we’re a fast-growing company leading the vacation rental industry with our innovative software. And we raised $30M to do exactly that! Our platform empowers property owners and managers to efficiently manage and market their rental businesses online. We are an international team of more than 350 people and over 60 different nationalities, founded in the heart of sunny Barcelona. ⭐️ Role OverviewWe are looking for a Senior PHP Developer with strong knowledge of Laravel to join our dynamic and rapidly growing international team. In this role, you will contribute to one of our key…
If you’re a data analyst drowning in Excel, you know the pain. Endless filtering, formula nightmares, and the dreaded “file not responding” message. Excel’s great for small stuff, but it chokes on big data. VLOOKUPs become your enemy. PivotTables take forever.That’s where SQL comes to the rescue. Think of it as Excel’s super-powered sibling. And guess what? If you’re good with Excel, you already get many SQL concepts.Switching might seem scary, but I promise it’s less daunting than you think. This guide will show you why SQL is a game-changer, how it stacks up against Excel, and the smartest way…
Here’s a way to centralize management, rotate secrets conveniently without downtime, automate synchronization and reduce secret exposure risks.Secrets management is an essential aspect of modern application development. It is vital to ensure that sensitive information such as database credentials, certificates, API keys, passwords and tokens are securely stored and accessible. Kubernetes offers a built-in solution for managing secrets, but integrating it with external secrets stores like AWS Secrets Manager provides enhanced security, flexibility and scalability. Users can easily rotate their credentials for security enhancement, and this will be replicated to the downstream applications that reside in the Kubernetes cluster.In this tutorial,…
The Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra), which oversees the development of the open source OpenStack cloud computing framework, this week agreed to become an arm of The Linux Foundation as part of an effort to foster more collaboration with maintainers of projects such as Kubernetes and the Linux operating system.Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenInfra Foundation, said cross-pollination across these three leading open source projects will further streamline deployments, at a time when OpenStack is experiencing a resurgence and when enterprise IT organizations are looking to reduce costs.That resurgence is specifically being driven by a Broadcom decision to increase VMware…
Photo by Andre Taissin on UnsplashThis may or may not be helpful in the long term, but since I’m doing it to be super cautious, I figured I would blog about it. We migrated to Flex last week, and to be abundantly cautious, we’re putting the last single server backup into cold storage. You could also use this same process to offload Flex if you were going to delete a server and want to save a final backup or have some use case for saving backups to storage longer term. This is primarily a repeat of another post I did,…
A significant shift has occurred in the fast-evolving world of continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD). Semaphore, a leading CI/CD platform, has announced its core platform is officially open source under the Apache 2.0 license. This move represents a pivotal moment for DevOps professionals worldwide, who have long struggled with the limitations of existing solutions.For years, DevOps teams have faced an uncomfortable choice: Adopt open-source CI/CD tools that offer flexibility but struggle to scale or surrender to vendor lock-in with proprietary platforms. Semaphore’s decision to open its source code eliminates this false dichotomy, offering a third path that combines enterprise-grade reliability…