1. Spring and Java
>> Virtual Threads after JDK 24: What Changed for Production Java [infoq.com]
If you haven’t looked at virtual threads in a while, this is the update you need. Benchmarks, code, and a repo you can run, plus concrete Spring Boot 3 adoption guidance.
Also worth reading:
- >> Idempotent Spring Boot: Safe REST with One Annotation [foojay.io]
- >> Introduction to Spring MockMvc [petrikainulainen.net]
- >> Writing a Thymeleaf component library – part 2 [wimdeblauwe.com]
- >> How to Create a Spring Boot Fraud Scoring Service [foojay.io]
- >> Jakarta Agentic AI Hits Its First Milestone [foojay.io]
- >> Transitioning Java to More Frequent Security Updates [inside.java]
- >> IntelliJ IDEA Goes LSP: Java and Kotlin Intelligence Comes to VS Code, Cursor, and Agentic Flows [jetbrains.com]
- >> Embabel Agent Framework Reaches 1.0 [infoq.com]
- >> The Codename One JavaScript Port Is Now Free and Open Source [foojay.io]
- >> Reflecting on STF support and looking ahead [marcphilipp.de]
- >> Custom ASCII-art startup banners for Quarkus [quarkus.io]
Webinars and presentations:
- >> Under the HAT: Empowering GPU Acceleration for Java [inside.java]
- >> Episode 64 “JIT Compiler From the Ground Up” [AtA] [inside.java]
- >> A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Boot founder and lead Phil Webb [spring.io]
- >> Quarkus Insights #255: Faster, Leaner, Predictable — Quarkus in the Real World [quarkus.io]
- >> WebAssembly on the JVM: Feature Evolution, Performance, and the Transition to Endive [infoq.com]
- >> Automatically Retrofitting JIT Compilers [infoq.com]
- >> The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity [infoq.com]
Time to upgrade:
- >> Quarkus 3.38.1 and 3.33.3.1 and 3.27.5.1 [quarkus.io]
- >> Jetty 12.1.12 and 12.0.38 [github.com/jetty]
- >> Vert.x 5.1.6 [github.com/eclipse-vertx]
- >> Helidon 4.5.2 [github.com/helidon-io]
- >> Elasticsearch 9.5.0 [github.com/elastic]
- >> Qodana 2026.2: More Security, Better Coverage, Less Configuration [jetbrains.com]
- >> Oracle Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code – Version 26.0.1 Is Now Available [inside.java]
2. Technical & Musings
>> The Economic Benefit of Refactoring [martinfowler.com]
We have always known that clean code pays for itself; here is someone putting a number on it in the agentic era. Giles Edwards-Alexander took a bloated 17,155-line data-access layer, refactored it systematically, and then measured what a representative feature change cost an AI agent before and after: input tokens dropped from 159,564 to 27,360, an 83% cut. Definitely a weekend read.
Also worth reading:
- >> The Conductor Developer [martinfowler.com]
- >> Fixing bugs in Event Sourcing is hard, for real? [event-driven.io]
- >> On building scalable control planes [allthingsdistributed.com]
- >> TimeSeries Tiered Storage Journey: Kafka/Flink Streams to Native Cassandra Cold Reads [netflixtechblog.com]
- >> GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix [netflixtechblog.com]
- >> Credential Brokering Patterns for AI Agents Part 2: Protecting the Token Vault with AWS KMS [christianposta.com]
- >> Confidence Techniques for Guiding AI Migration [scottlogic.com]
- >> GitHub agentic workflows and Renovate [frankel.ch]
- >> Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks [hamvocke.com]
- >> Modeling Device Capabilities for Analytics [netflixtechblog.com]
- >> Four pillars of agentic AI success [scottlogic.com]
3. Pick of the Week
>> Life is Short [paulgraham.com]
