Horațiu Dan 🇷🇴

I don't want to change the world, I want to change myself.

Slides from my #PeakIT 008 (Brașov, Romania) talk - "From Prototype to Production: Building Business-Driven Spring AI Applications" - github.com/horatiucd/tele… Step-by-step hands on tutorial - imhoratiu.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/fro… Thank you #AgileHub for inviting me!

"From Prototype to Production: Building Business-Driven Spring AI Applications"

a very cool scrolly-telling visualization of the @Java universe juniverse.szanto.swiss

What a great time we had tonight listening and discussing 'Essential Practices to be Effective in Continuous Delivery'. Thank you @venkat_s for the great and insightful talk. Thank you @ghibutiu & Co. for organizing yet another valuable meet-up. Check the summary and apply.

Java is setting the standards for #AI infrastructure⚡ Benchmark of MCP server implementations across 4 major languages puts #MCP #Java & #SpringAI at the top of the performance charts: sub-ms latency, highest throughput, and the best CPU efficiency 📖 tmdevlab.com/mcp-server-per…

New article that compares planning and execution times for similarity searches using trigram matching, case-insensitive regex and wildcard patterns, with and without GiST or GIN indexing - check it. dzone.com/articles/postg…

Thank you @DZoneInc for inviting me to be a Core Contributor. I am glad to see my published articles are raising interest in the technical community. dzone.com/authors/horati…

New article that makes a parallel between AOP and AI Advisors, both in the context of Spring Framework - check it. dzone.com/articles/aspec…

New article on how to protect your Spring AI MCP server with an API key, including clear instructions, sample code, and recommended security practices - check it. dzone.com/articles/how-t…

#SpringAI Tool Search Tool - Build smarter AI apps that discover tools when they need them ✅ On-demand tool discovery ✅ Multiple LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, .) ✅ 34-64% token savings 📖 Blog: spring.io/blog/2025/12/1… 🔗 GitHub: github.com/spring-ai-comm… @SpringAICentral

Understand how Spring AI Advisors work and see how Aspect Oriented Programming concepts can be applied when interacting with LLMs - check it! imhoratiu.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/fro…

Discover how to protect your Spring AI MCP server by integrating API-key security with Spring Security. The article below Includes clear instructions, sample code, and recommended security practices. imhoratiu.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/how…

@springrod @simas_ch You should also have a look at this one as well. It's built on top of JdbcTemplate, it' s light, fast and very reliable and solves a few problems hard to deal with in other ORMs. github.com/mobi/asentinel…

@simas_ch Right, a lot of people blame ORMs for problems caused by their unwillingness to understand how they work. And the fashion for hating on ORMs lets them position their ignorance as insight. I haven't tried jOOQ, will take a look next time I do something relational.

I've never understood the absolutism on this subject. I have worked on many applications where ORM avoided a ton of error-prone boilerplate, with excellent performance. I also like SQL & think there's a place for stored procedures. ORM is not a magic bullet. But it has a place

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Simple, to the point - a straightforward recipe that helps understanding the basic concepts of releasing projects with Git and maintaining the process - check it! dzone.com/articles/simpl…

Straightforward recipe that helps understand the basic concepts of releasing projects with Git and maintaining the process - check it! dzone.com/articles/simpl…

Convert from custom Java types into database ones and vice-versa via the Spring framework CoversionService and particularly handle JSON entity attributes - now possible directly with asentinel-orm. Razvan Popian - thank you for the review. imhoratiu.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/how…

The article that "closes the circle" of those regarding my MCP research was published. Thank you @Stephan007 for "opening my eyes" early this year at @VoxxedBucharest where you introduced me to MCP and starting me on the subject. dzone.com/articles/sprin…

Continued the investigation and analyzed the performance of PostgreSQL full-text search (FTS) versus pattern and regex searching, highlighting trade-offs and execution efficiency - check it! dzone.com/articles/postg…

💥Great news for the tech community! The Call for Papers for @VoxxedBucharest is now open! 🚀 We’re looking for talks that bring fresh technical perspectives and share real-world challenges and how you tackled them! Submit your talk proposal here: vdbuh2026.cfp.dev