1. Spring and Java
>> Beyond RAG: Architecting Context-Aware AI Systems with Spring Boot [infoq.com]
A solid look at Context-Augmented Generation (CAG) — an architectural layer on top of RAG that adds user identity, session state, and business constraints before the retrieval step. With Boot of course.
Also worth reading:
- >> Thread-Safe Native Memory in Java: VarHandle Access Modes Explained [foojay.io]
- >> From Zero to Full Observability with Dash0 [foojay.io]
- >> Does Java Really Use Too Much Memory? Let’s Look at the Facts (JEPs) [foojay.io]
- >> Spring AI Agentic Patterns (Part 6): AutoMemoryTools — Persistent Agent Memory Across Sessions [spring.io]
- >> Announcing ADK for Java 1.0.0: Building the Future of AI Agents in Java [googleblog.com]
- >> ACP Java SDK: Building IDE Agents in Java [blog.pollack.ai]
Webinars and presentations:
- >> A Bootiful Podcast: Java developer advocate Ana-Maria Mihalceanu [spring.io]
- >> Java and Post-Quantum Cryptography [inside.java]
- >> Episode 53 “Analyzing Crashed JVMs” [inside.java]
Time to upgrade:
- >> Spring Cloud 2025.0.2 (aka Northfields) Has Been Released [spring.io]
- >> Hibernate 7.3.0.Final [in.relation.to]
- >> Helidon 4.4.0 Introduces Alignment with OpenJDK Cadence and Support via Java Verified Portfolio [infoq.com]
- >> Quarkus 3.34.3 [github.com/quarkusio]
- >> Elasticsearch 9.3.3, 9.2.8, and 8.19.14 [github.com/elastic]
- >> TornadoVM 4.0.0 [github.com/beehive-lab]
- >> Netflix Zuul 3.5.8 [github.com/Netflix]
2. Technical & Musings
>> S3 Files and the changing face of S3 [allthingsdistributed.com]
AWS’s new S3 Files feature mounts S3 buckets as network filesystems via EFS, letting you use standard file operations on object storage without copying data around. Bout time 🙂
Also worth reading:
- >> Feedback Flywheel [martinfowler.com]
- >> Harness engineering for coding agent users [martinfowler.com]
- >> Experimenting with AI subagents [frankel.ch]
- >> Absurd In Production [lucumr.pocoo.org]
- >> Synchronizing the Senses: Powering Multimodal Intelligence for Video Search [netflixtechblog.com]
3. Pick of the Week
>> Do Things that Don’t Scale [paulgraham.com]
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