1. Spring and Java
>> From Spec-Driven Development to Living Specifications in Java Projects [foojay.io]
An interesting Java-focused piece exploreing a more durable model: bringing specifications closer to the code so they remain useful, testable, and alive as the system evolves.
Also worth reading:
- >> Acceleration of Curve25519 Field Operations with Java Software and Intrinsics [inside.java]
- >> Debug Past an HTTP 403 Without Breaking Spring Security [jetbrains.com]
- >> Testing your auto-configuration against a missing optional dependency [wimdeblauwe.com]
- >> No Database Operations Found: What Writing a Spring Boot Analyzer Taught Me About Spring [foojay.io]
- >> Masking a JVM thread dump without breaking the analysis [foojay.io]
- >> Bringing Raspberry Pico to Quarkus with Firmata [foojay.io]
- >> Building an Agentic Warehouse Management System – Part One, Part Two, and Part Three [foojay.io]
- >> My Ten Year Quest to Evolve Java Collections Beyond Java Stream [medium.com]
Webinars and presentations:
- >> Principles of Memory Management in Java [inside.java]
- >> Quarkus Insights #258: Quarkus Feature Flags [quarkus.io]
- >> A Bootiful Podcast: BellSoft’s Catherine Edelveis on hardened runtime images, container security, and more [spring.io]
Time to upgrade:
- >> Kotlin 2.4.20 Released [jetbrains.com]
- >> Kotlin Toolchain 0.12: Multiplatform Library Publishing, Wasm Apps, and More [jetbrains.com]
- >> Quarkus 3.39.2, 3.33.3.2 LTS, 3.27.5.2 LTS – Maintenance releases [quarkus.io]
- >> Spring Tools 5.4.0 released [spring.io]
- >> Jetty 12.1.13 and 12.0.39 [github.com/jetty]
- >> Vert.x 5.1.8 [github.com/eclipse-vertx]
- >> Elasticsearch 9.5.3 [github.com/elastic]
- >> Micronaut Core 5.1.14, 4.10.27, and 3.10.11 [github.com/micronaut-projects]
2. Technical & Musings
>> The oldest architecture in computing [allthingsdistributed.com]
Werner Vogels looks to the brain for a model of how useful agent memory should work. A fascinating argument that the next breakthroughs in trusted, autonomous agents may come from studying the oldest computing architecture we know.
Also worth reading:
- >> Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again? [lucumr.pocoo.org]
- >> The Lifecycle of LLM-as-a-Judge: Building, Aligning, and Monitoring at Scale [netflixtechblog.com]
- >> Did Your AI Agent Ever Run a Debugger? One JVM Bug, Two Agent Runs [foojay.io]
- >> Build an AI Agent (From Scratch) [frankel.ch]
- >> Latent Powers [lucumr.pocoo.org]
- >> The Evolution of WSL Support in JetBrains IDEs [jetbrains.com]
- >> Beyond Prompting: Context Engineering for Production-Grade AI [infoq.com]
- >> From OpenTelemetry to DuckDB [foojay.io]
3. Pick of the Week
>> How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache [blog.cloudflare.com]
