1. Spring and Java
>> The Spring Team on Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4 [infoq.com]
A walk through what’s landed in Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4 – the direction, the rationale, and what it means for the ecosystem. Good overview.
Also worth reading:
- >> Quality Outreach Heads-up – JDK 27: Obsolete Translation Resources Removed [inside.java]
- >> Using Spring Data JDBC With Kotlin [jetbrains.com]
- >> How I Automated Weekly Twitter/X Posts With Java, JBang and GitHub Actions [foojay.io]
- >> BoxLang AI Deep Dive — Part 1 of 7: The Skills Revolution [foojay.io]
- >> Enabling reflection-free Jackson serializers by default [quarkus.io]
- >> Spring AI Agentic Patterns (Part 7): Session API — Event-Sourced Short-Term Memory with Context Compaction [spring.io]
Webinars and presentations:
- >> Foojay Podcast #93: Update Your JDK, Read More Code, and Talk to Your Users: Interviews From VoxxedDays Amsterdam [foojay.io]
- >> Episode 54 “How JDK 26 Improves G1’s Throughput” [AtA] [inside.java]
- >> A Bootiful Podcast: Mark Kropf on AI orchestration [spring.io]
Time to upgrade:
- >> Oracle Java Extension for Visual Studio Code Version 25.1.0 Is Now Available [inside.java]
- >> Elasticsearch 9.3.3, 9.2.8 and 8.19.14 [github.com/elastic]
- >> Grails 7.1.0 [github.com/grails]
- >> Micronaut Core 4.10.21 [github.com/micronaut-projects]
- >> Helidon 4.4.1 [github.com/oracle]
- >> Camel 4.19.0, 4.18.2 and 4.14.6 [github.com/apache]
- >> Payara Platform Community 7.2026.4 [github.com/payara]
- >> Micrometer 1.16.5 and 1.15.11 [github.com/micrometer-metrics]
2. Technical & Musings
>> A GitHub agentic workflow [frankel.ch]
A hands-on walkthrough of wiring an agentic workflow into GitHub – using issues and PRs as the coordination surface. Weekend reading.
Also worth reading:
- >> The Center Has a Bias [lucumr.pocoo.org]
- >> When You Can Safely Leave Sprints Behind [jbrains.ca]
- >> Anti-patterns in event modelling – Passive-Aggressive Events [event-driven.io]
- >> Evaluating Netflix Show Synopses with LLM-as-a-Judge [netflixtechblog.com]
3. Pick of the Week
>> How to do what you love and make good money [sive.rs]
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