The Joy of Queries

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Claim: replace brittle string property names with typed property paths expressed as method references, giving IDE refactor safety and compiler checks without annotation processors or code generation. Implementation parses serialized Java lambdas, caches results, and keeps performance close to strings. Supported backends: MongoDB, Spring Data JDBC, Cassandra, Couchbase; JPA integration is experimental and not finalized. Preview available as Spring Data 2026.0.0-M2 with a release candidate imminent.

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1. 0:00Bringing joy into queries
2. 6:50String-based property issues
3. 10:38Strongly typed property paths
4. 17:24Benefits of typed property paths
5. 26:03How typed paths work
6. 32:09Adopting typed property paths
7. 37:10Call to action

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