1. Spring and Java
>> Project Loom in IntelliJ IDEA: Virtual Threads, Scoped Values, and Structured Concurrency [jetbrains.com]
A hands-on tour of the three Loom pillars: virtual threads, scoped values, and structured concurrency. This show you exactly what each feature buys and the tooling coming along with it. Solid stuff.
Also worth reading:
- >> Post-Quantum Cryptography in Spring Boot: Four Patterns You Can Ship This Sprint [infoq.com]
- >> The Grails Plugin Has a New Home: Apache Grails [jetbrains.com]
- >> Module Imports [javaspecialists.eu]
Webinars and presentations:
- >> Episode 68 “Operator Overloading with Type Classes” [AtA] [inside.java]
- >> A Bootiful Podcast: Joe Grandja on Spring Authorization Server, OAuth, and so much more [spring.io]
- >> Spring Office Hours Podcast: S5E21 – Pro Spring Boot 4 with Felipe Gutierrez [spring.io]
Time to upgrade:
- >> IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.2 Is Out! [jetbrains.com]
- >> Compose Multiplatform 1.12.0 Released [jetbrains.com]
- >> Quarkus Flow 1.0.0 released [quarkus.io]
- >> Quarkus 3.39 – Post-quantum cryptography support in TLS registry [quarkus.io]
- >> WildFly 41.0.1 is released! [wildfly.org]
- >> JHipster v9.3.0 [github.com/jhipster]
- >> Vert.x 4.5.33 and 5.1.7 [github.com/eclipse-vertx]
- >> Elasticsearch 9.4.6 and 8.19.21 [github.com/elastic]
- >> Zuul v4.1.5 [github.com/Netflix]
- >> Micronaut Core 5.1.13 [github.com/micronaut-projects]
- >> Helidon 4.5.4 [github.com/helidon-io]
2. Technical & Musings
>> Maybe We Shouldn’t Be Reviewing All This Code [martinfowler.com]
PR sizes really are ballooning, but the fix isn’t automating review away, it’s noticing that we’d been leaning on review to carry things that belongs much earlier in the flow. An interesting weekend read.
Also worth reading:
- >> AI-assisted genealogy [frankel.ch]
- >> DuckDB and the changing physics of analytics [allthingsdistributed.com]
- >> Making Your Data Ready for Agentic AI [martinfowler.com]
- >> An Accidental Blackboard [martinfowler.com]
- >> MAPS: Netflix’s Multimodal Asset Personalization at Scale [netflixtechblog.com]
- >> Running Apache Spark experiments in my sleep (and on a plane) [netflixtechblog.com]
- >> You Can’t “Vibe Code” Love [codinghorror.com]
3. Pick of the Week
And from last week, the free, fully virtual conference for our ecosystem:
>> IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2026 [jetbrains.com]
