1. Spring and Java
>> Performance Improvements in JDK 26 [inside.java]
A tour of where JDK 26 makes Java faster in practice. It is especially handy because it groups the changes by where they show up in real apps: startup, allocation pressure, throughput, and carrier-thread scalability. Always great to see how quickly the JDK is evolving.
Also worth reading:
- >> Exploiting GPU Tensor Cores from Java using Babylon [inside.java]
- >> Why You Should Tune Code Before Your Garbage Collector [vanillajava.blog]
- >> Testing Java Memory Management with Chronicle-FIX using AI [vanillajava.blog]
- >> Your TLS Stack Is Lying to You About Zero-Copy [foojay.io]
- >> Why Spring Teams Don’t Need a Second Runtime for AI Agents [foojay.io]
- >> Spring Boot Migration and the CRA: When Good Enough Isn’t [foojay.io]
- >> JEP targeted to JDK 27: 538: PEM Encodings of Cryptographic Objects (3rd Preview) [inside.java]
- >> The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair [johanneslink.net]
- >> Codename One: Metal Default, A New Build Cloud, And A New Format [foojay.io]
- >> Negotiating Vendor Contracts [dandreamsofcoding.com]
- >> A Human-Augmenting Agentic Workflow for Causal Inference [netflixtechblog.com]
- >> Gaslighting Openness [lucumr.pocoo.org]
- >> The Technology Adoption Curve, Twenty Years On [infoq.com]
- >> Rethinking ‘Transformation’: From projects to long-term capability [scottlogic.com]
Webinars and presentations:
- >> JavaNext Language Features [inside.java]
- >> Quarkus Insights #250: What’s New with Quarkus Data [quarkus.io]
Time to upgrade:
- >> Spring Batch 6.0.4 and 5.2.6 available now [spring.io]
- >> Spring for GraphQL 1.4.6 and 2.0.4 released [spring.io]
- >> Spring gRPC 1.1.0 available now [spring.io]
- >> Spring Vault 4.0.3 and 3.2.1 available [spring.io]
- >> Quarkus 3.36.2 [github.com/quarkusio]
- >> Vert.x 5.1.2 [github.com/eclipse-vertx]
- >> Micrometer 1.17.0 [github.com/micrometer-metrics]
- >> Zuul 3.6.11 [github.com/Netflix]
- >> Oracle Java Extension for Visual Studio Code Version 26.0.0 Is Now Available [inside.java]
2. Pick of the Week
My first course focused on building with AI is out, and the series is getting started:
