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Explore technical deep-dives, product updates, and real-world examples to help you build, scale, and monitor your Java background jobs.

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April 23, 2025

Mastering Java Background Jobs: Threads, Pools, Virtual Threads, and JobRunr

We’ve all been there. Your web application needs to do something time-consuming; send an email, process an uploaded file, generate a report,.. but making the user wait is simply not an option.

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April 15, 2025

JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v7.5.0

New release brings Quarkus 3.20 and Micronaut 4.8 support, smarter config validation, and CockroachDB integration!

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April 11, 2025

How JobRunr Builds Software That Gives Back to the Planet

At JobRunr, we believe building great software shouldn’t come at the cost of the planet. Here’s how we’re using our profits, and platform to leave the world better than we found it.

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March 18, 2025

Optimizing Cost and Performance on Kubernetes: Scale Java Workloads with JobRunr Metrics

Explore how JobRunr Pro metrics API can dynamically scale your Java workloads on Kubernetes to optimize cost and performance.

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March 5, 2025

JobRunr - the best Java Scheduler?

Easily schedule your (batch) jobs in Java and monitor them using JobRunr, a unified programming model to handle background tasks in a reliable way.

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January 30, 2025

Building local LLM systems: RAG implementation with JobRunr and Spring AI

Learn how to build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows using JobRunr in Java.

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