1. Spring and Java
>> Preparing for Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4 [foojay.io]
Get ready for a more resilient and streamlined development experience with Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4 🙂
>> Jakarta EE 12 Will Focus on Consistency and Configuration [infoq.com]
Jakarta EE 12 is bringing new consistency and configuration, with support for JDK 21 and quite a bit more.
>> IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2 and Spring Modulith [youtube.com/@coffeesoftware]
IntelliJ’s enhanced Spring Modulith support gives you immediate, in-IDE feedback on architectural violations. Quite useful.
Also worth reading:
- >> New Features in Jakarta EE 11, with Examples [foojay.io]
- >> OpenTelemetry configuration gotchas [blog.frankel.ch]
- >> IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2025: Catching Up With JUnit [youtube.com/@intellijideau]
Webinars and presentations:
- >> Jetbrains’ Andrey Belaev on a Bootiful Podcast [youtube.com/@coffeesoftware]
- >> What’s New in IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2 [youtube.com/@intellijideau]
- >> The not-so-final word on final #JVMLS [inside.java]
- >> Spring Cloud Vault is for secrets, not configuration [youtube.com/@coffeesoftware]
- >> Consider using JSON arrays instead of JSON objects for serialisation [blog.jooq.org]
- >> Catching Up With JUnit by Marc Philipp [youtube.com/@intellijideau]
Time to upgrade:
- >> Announcing Graal Dev Kit for Micronaut 4.9.1 [blogs.oracle.com]
- >> Spring gRPC 0.10.0 available now [spring.io]
- >> Spring AI 1.0.1 Released [spring.io]
- >> Hibernate Search 8.1.0.Final is out [in.relation.to]
- >> Quarkus 3.25.2 [github.ccom/quarkusio]
- >> Hibernate 7.1.0.Final [in.relation.to]
- >> Elasticsearch 9.1.2 [github.ccom/elastic]
- >> Payara Platform Community 6.2025.8 [github.com/payara]
2. Technical & Musings
>> Impact Intelligence, addressing common objections [martinfowler.com]
Always good reads. A piece on not measuring developer productivity and measuring the actual business impact of your team’s work instead.
Also worth reading:
- >> Actions to improve impact intelligence [martinfowler.com]
- >> Agent authorization without the pain [krasserm.github.io]
- >> The Reformist CTO’s Guide to Impact Intelligence [martinfowler.com]
- >> Universal Turing Machine [blog.code-cop.org]
3. Pick of the Week
>> Live coding sucks [hadid.dev]
