Building the future of agent frameworks at Embabel. Creator of Spring. Developer, Entrepreneur, Investor, Author. linkedin.com/in/johnsonroda/

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The first of a series of blogs showing how AI agent examples from popular Python frameworks can be rewritten in Java to be far better, using Embabel. Today's target: CrewAI. medium.com/@springrod/you-ca… #embabel @java @crewAIInc @rseroter @gsaab @starbuxman @JamesWard @springboot
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Want to build great agents on the JVM? Accelerate your Embabel journey with our chatbot to talk to our docs and code Built with Embabel, Spring Boot and Neo4j, it's a great starting point for your own agentic RAG system. hub.embabel.com/ @java @kotlin @springcentral
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🚨 Spring: The Documentary is live at @CultRepo: youtu.be/0Gb1z-2SjHY?si=ACn9… Enterprise Java had become a bureaucratic nightmare, until a group of developers decided to take back control. What started with a book and some code became the framework that reshaped modern software and now powers systems used by millions every day. This is the story of the rebellion that changed enterprise Java forever.🍃
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Are people still writing applications or have we let the machines completely take over? @springrod joins us for another fascinating episode of the AI Native Dev. Watch the full episode at youtu.be/UcvxYltiS7E or listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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Spring: The Documentary is live at @CultRepo Watch it here: youtu.be/0Gb1z-2SjHY?si=RUci…
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Yes, I do. Mainly Romantic and 20th century music. It's a while since I played regularly, but I will get back to it.
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Now we want to know: do you play piano yourself @springrod?!
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@springrod thinks that you can't vibe code serious software. Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/UcvxYltiS7E or listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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Did you know the creator of Spring holds a PhD in musicology? @springrod graduated from the University of Sydney in 1992 with a BA Hons in music and computer science and went on to write his doctoral thesis on Parisian piano music during the July Monarchy. From 19th-century concert halls to the foundations of modern Java development…not your average career trajectory! Spring: The Documentary comes out on May 7th at 8pm CEST.
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🇬🇧London friends! Join us for the live premiere of Spring: The Documentary on May 7th at @DevoxxUK. The event is open to DevoxxUK ticket holders and the public, register for your free ticket before they go! Register here 👉👉luma.com/xv1iva0d Spring: The Documentary traces the full arc of one of open source's most consequential projects: from its origins as a quiet rebellion against enterprise Java complexity, through the paradigm shift of Spring Boot, into the microservices era and the cloud-native architectures that now run beneath some of the world's most critical software. Watch the trailer here youtube.com/watch?v=4qTwA6Y1… After the film, there will be a panel featuring some of the cast, who will discuss the history of Spring and the making of the film @starbuxman, @MaritvanDijk77, @spoole167 ​Doors open at 6:30pm ​Film starts at 7pm ​Panel at 8pm The film features: @springrod @springjuergen @rstoya05 @markpollack, @sdeleuze , @starbuxman @snicoll, David Sayer, @scottyfred, @spoole167, @MaritvanDijk77, @MarcoBehler and @sergialmar Big shoutout to our incredible sponsors @herodevs and @jetbrains
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Spring: The Documentary arrives 7th May! 🍃 Spring didn’t start as a framework, it started as a reaction to complexity in enterprise Java. What followed was a movement that redefined how modern applications are built, from Spring Boot to the cloud era. This is the story behind one of the most influential technologies in software.
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Happy belated birthday! @springframework’s BeanFactory turned 25 years old on Monday
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Join me, @springrod and @ayangupta01 for today's kick off keynote of #JDConf
The JDConf 2026 keynote "Building the Agentic Future Together" kicks off in 1 hour! Join @springrod, @brunoborges, and @ayangupta01. Register and attend live to earn Microsoft Rewards. Don't miss it! 👉 jdconf.com☕🚀 #JDConf #java #spring #embabel
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Nice blog by Embabel's Jasper Blues using Embabel for AI and Neo4j graph to analyze project dynamics "Let’s see if we can use 1970s network science to predict future forks, governance crises and other notable schisms on GitHub projects." @neo4j @kotlin medium.com/embabel/faction-d…
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Full house for @springrod at the @nyjavasig Mar meeting last night. Embabel looks really awesome. Thx to @TeraSkycom1 for hosting! #java #genai
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happy 22nd birthday to Spring Framework, released as 1.0 this day on 24 March 2004! // @springrod @springjuergen @trisberg spring.io/blog/2004/03/24/sp…
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Enterprise AI ist kein Prompt Engineering. Sobald AI Teil realer Systeme wird, geht es um Architektur, Integration, Governance und reproduzierbare Systeme. Ein guter Einstieg: die W-JAX Opening Keynote von @springrod. f.mtr.cool/pvniltdqem #EnterpriseAI #AIEngineering
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I thought I was over this meme but this is the funniest one I’ve seen
DevOps engineers explaining Kubernetes to the team. 😂
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And now, @springrod on Enterprise challenges for AI at @devnexus I've said it before, yet. I'll say it again: @springrod 's take on AI is one of the most clear, refreshing and developer focused messages I've seen out there. Doing AI? You better at least know what he is saying.
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Just watched this. Nice example of Embabel!
👾New on CyberJAR: Agentic AI on JVM with Embabel Embabel makes it easy to build sophisticated agentic flows on the JVM guarded by strong typing and domain models. See how to integrate it into the existing app: @java #embabel @springboot youtube.com/watch?v=43zpjV7X…
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