1. Spring and Java
>> The Coming Loop [lucumr.pocoo.org]
A frame for the next phase of AI-assisted development – an agent harness, which generates, runs, inspects, corrects, and repeat quickly enough that the system becomes genuinely useful instead of just impressive. Anecdotally I’ve been running one for a few months now 🙂 A good read.
Also worth reading:
- >> Self-Correcting Structured Output in Spring AI 2.0 [spring.io]
- >> Better Tools for Immutable Data [inside.java]
- >> Behind the Scenes: Block 450 JVM Repositories into Monorepo to Reduce Dependency Drift [infoq.com]
- >> Jurassic JDK: Migrate or Extinct [foojay.io]
- >> On programming languages, targets, and platforms [frankel.ch]
- >> Kotlin Toolchain 0.11: The Next Step for Amper [jetbrains.com]
- >> Pi4J Drivers: Simplifying Sensor and Hardware Integration in Java [foojay.io]
- >> Systematic AI Coding: My Takeaways from the Eclipse Foundation Workshop in Brussels [foojay.io]
- >> Backups with Restic: 2-year retrospective [advancedweb.hu]
- >> So You Want To Define a Well-Known URI [mnot.net]
- >> Working Effectively with Claude Code [scottlogic.com]
- >> Sustainable acceleration and the Agentic Software Development Life Cycle [scottlogic.com]
- >> How Netflix Simplified Batch Compute with Kueue [netflixtechblog.com]
- >> Toward More Controllable AI Video Editing: An Early Research Exploration at Netflix [netflixtechblog.com]
Webinars and presentations:
- >> Quarkus Unpacked: Insights from the Foojay Podcast [foojay.io]
- >> Episode 60 “How JEPs Drive Java’s Evolution” [AtA] [inside.java]
- >> A Bootiful Podcast: My friend Francesco Ciulla on developer advocacy and more [spring.io]
Time to upgrade:
- >> Spring Boot 3.5.16 available now [spring.io]
- >> Spring Data 2025.0.13 released [spring.io]
- >> Emergency releases to fix CVE-2026-50559 in all supported streams [quarkus.io]
- >> Quarkus 3.36.3, 3.33.2.1, 3.27.4.1, and 3.20.6.2 [github.com/quarkusio]
- >> Vert.x 5.1.3 [github.com/eclipse-vertx]
- >> Elasticsearch 8.19.17 and 9.3.6 [github.com/elastic]
- >> Zuul v3.6.16 and v3.6.15 [github.com/Netflix]
- >> Micronaut Core 5.1.2 [github.com/micronaut-projects]
- >> Helidon 3.2.18 [github.com/helidon-io]
- >> WildFly 40.0.1 is released! [wildfly.org]
2. Pick of the Week
>> Old Software Was Fast Because It Had No Choice [yusufaytas.com]
