guided reading

Reading paths.

Some entries build on each other. A path is an ordered sequence: start at the first block and each next one assumes the previous.

P-01 4 steps · 41 min

A local platform from zero

empty Mac → observable cluster

Set up language runtimes with version managers, run real Kubernetes clusters locally with Minikube, attach the IDE debugger to a JVM inside a pod, and wire logs, metrics, and traces across services with one correlation ID.

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P-02 2 steps · 16 min

Measuring runtimes

benchmarks you can rerun

Compare Java, Python, Node, and Rust on the same workload with Prometheus and Grafana, then compare the JVM against a GraalVM native image built from the same Spring Boot source.

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P-03 3 steps · 40 min

Agentic AI on the JVM

traced services → multi-agent system

Centralize error handling behind one contract, trace requests across services and LLM calls with OpenTelemetry, then build a multi-agent investigation system with LangChain4j, Neo4j, and Qdrant.

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