1. Spring and Java
Also worth reading:
- >> Nulling Out References Won’t Help Your Garbage Collector [foojay.io]
- >> Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies [infoq.com]
- >> What’s New in actions/setup-java 5.4 and 5.5: Signature Verification, Kona JDK, and a Better Maven Experience [foojay.io]
- >> Demystifying Exposed: The Intelligent SQL Library for Kotlin [foojay.io]
- >> The Java Story: A Film About All of Us [foojay.io]
- >> Introducing the Kotlin Benchmark for AI Coding Agents [jetbrains.com]
- >> A New Home for Spring Cloud Contract: Transitioning to Stubborn.sh [spring.io]
Webinars and presentations:
- >> Episode 61 “Scripting JS and Python with Project Detroit” [AtA] [inside.java]
- >> A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Boot legend Moritz Halbritter on the latest and greatest in Spring Boot 4 and 4.1 [spring.io]
- >> Spring Office Hours Podcast: S5E17 – Spring Boot 4.1 with Phil Webb [spring.io]
Time to upgrade:
- >> Quarkus 3.37.2 – Maintenance release [quarkus.io]
- >> Vert.x 4.5.29 and 5.1.4 [github.com/eclipse-vertx]
- >> Zuul v4.0.0, v3.6.21, v3.6.20, and v3.6.19 [github.com/Netflix]
- >> Micronaut Core 5.1.5, 5.1.4, 5.0.5, and 4.10.26 [github.com/micronaut-projects]
2. Technical & Musings
Also worth reading:
- >> Two nasty surprises in Home Assistant’s config [frankel.ch]
- >> Better Models: Worse Tools [lucumr.pocoo.org]
- >> Airbnb Shares Architecture behind Sitar-Agent Dynamic Configuration Sidecar for Kubernetes Services [infoq.com]
- >> Experiences with local models for coding [martinfowler.com]
- >> Viability of local models for coding [martinfowler.com]
- >> GLM-5.2: Considerations for enterprise teams starting out with open-weight models [scottlogic.com]
- >> Auditable Agentic Orchestration: From Autonomous Systems to Governed Execution [scottlogic.com]
3. Pick of the Week
One more week:
