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How to Build a GraphRAG Travel Assistant with Oracle AI Database 26ai

Grounded AI applications are hard to trust when the evidence is split across similar text, structured rows, and relationships. Flight disruption questions are a good example: a delayed traveler needs timing math, airport relationships, route alternatives, policy language, and a … Continue reading →

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From GraphRAG Demo to Enterprise AI System with Oracle AI Database 26ai

Key Takeaways A useful AI answer needs more than similar text A support engineer asks what sounds like a straightforward question: Which maintenance policy applies to ACME’s pump 17 after the seal failure? A vector search workflow may get close. … Continue reading →

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Oracle Connection Pooling in Spring Boot: When to Use HikariCP and When to Use UCP

Key Takeaways Why Connection Pooling Becomes a Production Problem A Spring Boot application can look perfectly healthy on your laptop and still run into trouble as soon as real traffic arrives. At first, the symptoms are easy to misread. A … Continue reading →

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Helidon and Spring Boot, Working Together in One Microservices System

Key Takeaways I have been working with a microservices application that includes both Helidon and Spring Boot services. That mix is not unusual. Real systems accumulate useful services over time. Different teams choose different frameworks for good reasons. Some services … Continue reading →

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Bringing OCI Generative AI into a Java Agent with Embabel

Key Takeaways I was lucky enough to see a presentation from Rod Johnson at a meetup in New York recently. Rod is the creator of Spring, and his new project, Embabel, is fascinating. It’s a different kind of take on … Continue reading →

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Exploring Helidon AI: trace the recipe assistant with OpenTelemetry and Jaeger

Key Takeaways In the first article in this follow-on series, the Helidon Eats app learned how to answer a recipe question with OpenAI, LangChain4j, Oracle AI Database vector search, and the same recipe data from the published Helidon Eats demo. … Continue reading →

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Exploring Helidon AI: give the recipe assistant memory

Key Takeaways In the last article, the Helidon Eats application learned how to answer a recipe question. The route embedded the question with OpenAI, searched recipe chunks in Oracle AI Database, built a grounded prompt, and called OpenAI through LangChain4j. … Continue reading →

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Exploring Helidon AI: add a recipe assistant to Helidon Eats

Key Takeaways In the previous Helidon Eats article, the application was already in a good place for an AI feature. The recipe data was normalized, the API was small, and Oracle AI Database was already doing useful work with JSON … Continue reading →

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From GraphRAG Demo to AI System: Build a Minimum Viable Knowledge Graph with Oracle AI Database 26ai

Key Takeaways     In the first article, we built the mechanics of GraphRAG with Oracle AI Database 26ai. We parsed documents, created chunks, extracted entities and relationships, stored embeddings in VECTOR columns, defined a SQL property graph, and compared … Continue reading →

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Four kinds of agent memory in Java with LangChain4j and Oracle AI Database

Key Takeaways     In the first article, we gave a Java agent durable semantic memory: selected facts stored in Oracle AI Database and retrieved by meaning through LangChain4j. That is a useful starting point, but most agents need more … Continue reading →

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