New blog post: DuckDB Table Functions in Java 🦆☕ In a large organization, data is spread across many systems, including relational databases, document stores, message queues, data lakes, and cloud data warehouses. The layer that ties these together is often a JVM-based distributed query engine. Teams increasingly add #DuckDB# to these Java environments for fast single-node analytics. The DuckDB #Java# client can register table functions written in pure Java, exposing any Java-accessible data source as a SQL table. That turns @duckdb into a single-node query engine for heterogeneous joins across remote systems and local files, with no export step. Dive into the rest:

In this "Input/Output" episode of the Inside Java Podcast, Nicolai Parlog talks to Martin Chalupa and John Rose about Java's ahead-of-time capabilities and how Netflix's training run approach is the ideal one.

A Goose walks into an enterprise Java stack… 🪿☕ In Part 1 of this new tutorial, @danieloh30 shows how to build cloud-native MCP tool services with Quarkus LangChain4j, add Jakarta Bean Validation, and connect them to Goose over HTTP. Honk responsibly:

` Chunked Query Results in the DuckDB Java Driver ` 🦆☕ The DuckDB #Java# driver can now return query results as a lazily fetched sequence of columnar data chunks, avoiding JDBC’s one-row-at-a-time ResultSet and its per-value overhead. DuckDB is a columnar, vectorized database. Every operator inside the engine works on data chunks: batches of column vectors, 2,048 rows at a time. That is a big part of why #DuckDB# is fast: the engine amortizes interpretation overhead over thousands of values instead of paying it once per value. JDBC, on the other hand, was designed in 1997. Here’s how the new DuckDB Java driver bridges the two:

New features have arrived in the latest Minecraft Java Snapshot and Bedrock Beta & Preview including one that players have wanted for years: you can finally sit. The new cushions can be crafted or found while exploring. You can use them as actual seats or as decorations in your builds. >The update also adds straw beds, which let you sleep through the night without changing your spawn point. >Abandoned camps have also been updated and now include cushions and straw beds These features are available now in the latest Java Snapshot and Bedrock Beta & Preview for testing before they release in a future update.