The release of Apache Grails 7.0.0 delivers bug fixes and notable changes such as: the ability to disable Micronaut auto configuration through the Grails plugin; improved reproducibility with implementations of Grails Object Relational Mapper (GORM) services; and a temporary removal of the GORM for Neo4J. Grails 7.0 requires a minimal version of JDK 17 (with testing validated up to JDK 21) and compliance with Spring Boot 3.5 and Jakarta EE 10.
The Spring Framework is possibly the most iconic software development framework of all time. It once suffered from a reputation of bloat, but it has long since shed that perception. In this article, we'll take fresh look at Spring, including an overview of Spring Boot and how Spring handles standard application needs like persistence and security. You'll also learn about newer features that modernize Spring, including its approach to developer experience, reactive programming, and cloud and serverless development.
Building a UI in Python usually means choosing between "quick and limited" or "powerful and painful." What if you could write modern, component-based web apps in pure Python and still keep full control? NiceGUI, pronounced "Nice Guy" sits on FastAPI with a Vue/Quasar front end, gives you real components, live updates over websockets, and it's running in production at Zauberzeug, a German robotic company. On this episode, I'm talking with NiceGUI's creators, Rodja Trappe and Falko Schindler, about how it works, where it shines,
Nitro.js is a JavaScript-based HTTP server. It builds on state-of-the-art components, focusing on performance, convention, and deployment. As a JavaScript developer, you want to know about Nitro because it's built from the ground up for modern, full-stack web development. It brings together a wealth of good ideas and is becoming a go-to server option. Nitro is deployment-aware, designed to make it easy to deploy your code to a variety of production platforms, from Node to serverless and edge computing hosts like Vercel or CloudFlare.
Reactive programming is an important coding style that evolved from the functional programming world. Reactive code is ideal for processing and connecting realtime streaming data. You can use reactive programming to compose streams into pipelines that cleanly model complex logic with non-blocking operations. Java has excellent reactive support, and one of the most popular reactive Java frameworks is Spring WebFlux.
The hype around the introduction of React Server Components (RSC) was undeniable. For the uninitiated, RSCs are a new way to build React apps that render components on the server, keeping code and data-fetching logic away from the client. The promise was appealing: a unified approach to server and client rendering, unmatched performance, and simpler data fetching, enough to convince many of us that this was the next best thing after cheese.
Solid.js takes a unique approach to reactive state management that has broadly influenced other reactive front-end JavaScript frameworks. It provides a compact set of reactive primitives built on signals, rather than state, and leverages those to support higher-order functionality. With a clean core design built for speed and a full set of enterprise features, Solid charted an impressive 90% developer satisfaction in the January 2025 State of JavaScript survey. Let's get started with Solid.js.
If you've worked with Tailwind CSS, chances are you've used daisyUI. As one of the most popular Tailwind component libraries, it's valued for its sensible defaults, wide component set, and flexibility that feels native to Tailwind. Now, with the release of Tailwind CSS 4, the ecosystem is evolving - and daisyUI is keeping pace. Version 5 is more than an update: it's a complete rewrite built to be smaller, faster, and more customizable.
At Caktus, many of our projects use pip-tools for dependency management. Following Tobias' post How to Migrate your Python & Django Projects to uv, we were looking to migrate other projects to uv, but the path seemed less clear with existing pip-tools setups. Our requirements are often spread across multiple files, like this: $ find requirements/ -type f requirements/test/test.in requirements/test/test.txt requirements/deploy/deploy.txt requirements/deploy/deploy.in requirements/dev/dev.txt requirements/dev/dev.in requirements/base/base.in requirements/base/base.txt
The Repository Pattern in Laravel is a design pattern that separates your application's business logic from data access logic. Your controller doesn't talk directly to Eloquent models; it talks to a repository interface instead. This approach improves testability, maintainability, and allows for easy swappability, such as replacing Eloquent with an API or external data source.
Internationalization involves more than just text translation; it encompasses formatting dates, pluralization, and sorting according to cultural expectations. The Intl API allows modern JavaScript to handle these tasks natively.
Cold starts in AWS Lambda refer to the additional latency introduced when initializing a new execution environment for a function invoked after a period of inactivity.
