Overview
JobRunr provides background processing capabilities for Java applications. The company focuses on serious, reliable job scheduling and execution in Java environments.
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- Happy Java 27 release! ☕🎉 Tuesday the Java team streamed the official Java 27 launch, and between compact object headers and JFR updates, our founder Ronald Dehuysser got 13 minutes to show ClawRunr: an AI agent runtime that is Java from top to bottom. In the clip you will see: 👉 How ClawRunr started as a JobRunr example and, in Ronald's words, "grew a little bit out of hand" 👉 A live demo: pick your model, plug in an MCP server, let the agent summarise your inbox 👉 Sub-agents, tool search, and an honest take on where agents
- Four things people believe about the EU Cyber Resilience Act. Only one of them is true. ⚖️ 1. Software we only use internally is out of scope. 2. Open source is exempt. 3. Paid support makes you a manufacturer. 4. We have until December 2027. Next week on Thursday 17 September at 12:00 CEST, Axel Desmet and Ward Verwaeren of Cresco call each statement true or false live. Free, one hour, no legal lecture, live on LinkedIn. Register on the event page: https://lnkd.in/eGfRsjmT Which of 1, 2, 3 and 4 is the true one?
- If issue #1 looked like a fire-and-forget job, surprise: it was a recurring one all along. 🔁 Inside JobRunr #2 is here, and this time every topic points at the same month: September. 👉 Four releases since the last issue, plus a v9 beta on Maven Central that we're asking you to break 👉 The Cyber Resilience Act gets its first hard deadline on 11 September. We're hosting a free lunch webinar with tech lawyers to make it practical 👉 JobRunr is now available on the Spring Initializr Also inside: the demo we rebuilt after learning
- Most software teams think they are not in scope of the EU Cyber Resilience Act. Spoiler: almost none of them are off the hook. ⚖️ On 11 September, the first hard obligation starts applying: an actively exploited vulnerability in software on the EU market has to be reported within 24 hours. Even if that duty never lands on you, your customers are in scope. They are about to ask due-diligence questions about every component you ship, open source included. We know, because at JobRunr we are answering those same questions ourselves.
- Last week I watched a JobRunr tutorial in a language I do not speak. Someone I have never met explained my own library to an audience I could never reach. So we went looking. There are a lot more of them. Blog posts, conference talks, videos, Stack Overflow answers, in languages I cannot even read. Nobody asked them. They found the thing useful and told other people about it. That is the part of open source that still makes me smile. You write code alone in a room during a scary year, not knowing if any of it will matter, and
- There is now an official JobRunr guide on the Apache Grails website. 🚀 Huge thank you to James Fredley, who wrote "Background Jobs with JobRunr in Grails 8" and published it in the official Grails guides. If you are building on Grails and still run background work with hand-rolled threads or Quartz, this is the fastest way to see what durable background jobs feel like.
- 2.5 hours of job backlog. Gone in 8 minutes. Total cost: $0.002. Two tenths of a cent. I checked it three times because I did not believe the number. What happened: we dumped 150 jobs of one minute each onto a cluster with a single worker. A MacBook Pro M4 was technically the production cluster that day 😅 Then JobRunr looked at the queue, decided it needed help, and rented a spot instance in our own AWS account. 6 seconds to decide. 75 seconds until the first spot node was processing jobs. Under 8 minutes for the whole backlog. 14
- Love it, love it, love it." That is Josh Long talking about JobRunr in his new video. We are honestly a bit lost for words with this one. Josh has shown Spring to half the Java world, so hearing him call JobRunr "one of my favorite projects" makes years of work feel worth it. And the clip is only the start. The full video is a 13-minute hands-on demo where Josh: 👉 Starts a JobRunr project straight from start.spring.io 👉 Schedules distributed and recurring jobs, running on virtual threads 👉 Shows carbon-aware scheduling ("one of
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