fidzu : programming

If you have worked on a mature Java backend application, your src/main/resources/db/migration folder probably looks like a chaotic history ledger:

V1__init_schema.sql
V2__add_users_table.sql
...
V142__add_status_column.sql
V143__fix_status_typo.sql
V144__drop_old_status.sql
V145__add_missing_index.sql

29 Oct 2026 12:00pm GMT

The message left the first service at 2:14 PM and never reached the last one. Between those facts: four pipeline stages, six topics, a pub/sub API moving every record. The engineer on call had Kafdrop open, the offsets looked fine, and nobody could say which stage had eaten the record.

That gap is why we built message search for Kafdrop at a hackathon. The setup was familiar from my day job: a platform moving data between pipeline stages over a pub/sub API, with no way to ask where a message went when something breaks. Kafdrop showed partitions and offsets. It couldn't search inside the messages.

28 Oct 2026 1:00pm GMT

The Core Problem

In Part 1, we built a Quarkus MCP tool server. In Part 2, we secured it with agentgateway. In Part 3, we added distributed tracing. The architecture handles single-request tool calls well - but enterprise processes are rarely single-step.

Consider what happens when a developer tells Goose: "Migrate the users table to add an email column, then deploy the updated service to production." This triggers a chain of operations:

27 Oct 2026 6:00pm GMT

Lua 5.4.9 has been released. It fixes all known bugs in Lua 5.4.8.

25 Aug 2026 11:00am GMT

Lua 5.5.1 has been released. It fixes all known bugs in Lua 5.5.0.

04 Aug 2026 12:38am GMT

Lua is now an SPI associated project.

20 Feb 2026 11:15am GMT