1. Spring and Java
>> New Java Benchmark for Coding LLMs puts GPT-5 at the top [foojay.io]
Brokk’s new Java-heavy benchmark (93 real-world tasks) ranks GPT-5 first across performance tiers and price points. The catch: it’s slow—and build noise, flaky tests, and quantization can seriously sway outcomes.
>> Infusing AI into Your Java applications [infoq.com]
Plug LLMs into Java with familiar tools—LangChain4j and Quarkus—so you can prototype fast and scale cleanly.
>> Debugging Transactions? Let Spring Debugger Do the Heavy Lifting [youtube.com/@intellijideau]
The plugin can help you visualize and understand how transactions behave and how entity states change as you debug. Quite useful.
Also worth reading:
- >> OpenTelemetry Tracing on the JVM [foojay.io]
- >> Domain-Driven Design in Java: A Practical Guide [foojay.io]
- >> JDK 25 Initial Release Candidatee [openjdk.org]
Webinars and presentations:
- >> Auto-Vectorization in HotSpot #JVMLS [inside.java]
- >> Why Your S3 Storage Costs Are High (& How To Fix It) [youtube.com/@awsdevelopers]
- >> A Bootiful Podcast: Architecture sage and Spring Modulith lead Oliver Drotbohm [spring.io]
- >> IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2025: The Modern Database Debate: Documents, Tables, or Documents and Tables [youtube.com/@intellijideau]
- >> Java Architects Answer Your Questions – Inside Java Newscast #97 [inside.java]
Time to upgrade:
- >> Spring Framework 7.0.0-M8 available now and 6.2.10 release fixes CVE-2025-41242 [spring.io]
- >> Spring Security 6.4.9 and 6.5.3 Released and 7.0.0-M2 available now [spring.io]
- >> Spring Data 2025.1.0-M5 | Spring Data 2025.0.3 and 2024.1.9 released [spring.io]
- >> Spring Authorization Server 2.0.0-M2, 1.5.2 and 1.4.5 available now [spring.io]
- >> Hibernate Search 8.1.1.Final is out [in.relation.to]
- >> Hibernate Reactive 4.1.0.Final released [in.relation.to]
- >> Quarkus 3.20.2.1 | Quarkus 3.25.3 – Maintenance release [github.com/quarkusio]
- >> Jetty.project 12.1.0 [github.com/jetty]
- >> Vert.x 5.0.3 [github.com/eclipse-vertx]
- >> Micronaut-core v4.9.10 [github.com/micronaut-projects]
- >> Helidon 3.2.14 [github.com/helidon-io]
- >> Camel-4.14.0 [github.com/apache]
2. Technical & Musings
>> Team OKRs in Action [martinfowler.com]
Make OKRs a team sport: co-create objectives, own outcomes, and align by conversation—not top-down cascades. Solid weekend read as always.
Also worth reading:
- >> This Blog Will Make You a Better Programmer [hamvocke.com]
- >> STF Milestone 5: Discovery issues [marcphilipp.de]
- >> Your MCP Doesn’t Need 30 Tools: It Needs Code [lucumr.pocoo.org]
- >> The Important Things in Life [hamvocke.com]
- >> Developing a Custom Query Language with ANTLR and Elasticsearch [blog.scottlogic.com]
- >> Channels for effective software team communication in messaging tools [blog.scottlogic.com]
3. Pick of the Week
>> New trend: extreme hours at AI startups [pragmaticengineer.com]
