1. Spring and Java
>> Beyond mvn install: Maven Practices That Pay Off [foojay.io]
A tour of the cheap wins hiding in a pom.xml, drawn from real open-source projects: fail fast with the Enforcer, pin every plugin version through curated parent POMs, let profiles switch themselves on, and get an SBOM almost for free. Good stuff.
Also worth reading:
- >> Withdrawing the Primitive Patterns Preview Feature [inside.java]
- >> Testcontainers Integration Testing: Running Your Real WAR in Docker [foojay.io]
- >> Letting a Java AI Agent Request Cancellations with MySQL REST Service [foojay.io]
- >> How I got a thread dump from a timed-out GitHub Actions test [foojay.io]
- >> Tutorial: The G1 Garbage Collector [inside.java]
- >> The G1 Garbage Collector [dev.java]
- >> AI Root Cause Analysis: LLM-Powered Root-Cause Analysis for Distributed Systems [quarkus.io]
- >> Hear your application with Quarkus Sonify [quarkus.io]
- >> Announcing a New Home for Spring for Apache Pulsar [spring.io]
- >> Checking Module Boundaries in a Java Monolith [foojay.io]
- >> A Valhalla Ticker in One int [inside.java]
- >> The tests passed. The feature had never worked. [foojay.io]
- >> jip: Clone a Java Project. Run It. Done. [foojay.io]
- >> Spring AI or LangChain4j? One App, Three Stacks, One Test [foojay.io]
- >> dukehoff-decide: Typed, Calibrated Decisions from Small Language Models [foojay.io]
Webinars and presentations:
- >> Distributed LLM Inference on Kubernetes with llm-d, Wasm, & TornadoVM [infoq.com]
- >> Spring Office Hours Podcast: S5E29 – Spring AI ACP Harness Client [spring.io]
- >> Quarkus Insights #267: Sandboxing agents with Quarkus, for Quarkus [quarkus.io]
- >> Java and the Next Generation of Programming Models [inside.java]
- >> A Bootiful Podcast: Temporal.io’s Cornelia Davis [spring.io]
- >> Episode 74 “Ask the Architects at Devoxx” [AtA] [inside.java]
Time to upgrade:
- >> Spring AI 2.1.0-RC2 Available Now [spring.io]
- >> Spring Boot 4.2.0-RC2 available now [spring.io]
- >> Spring Cloud 2026.0.0-RC2 (aka Paddington) Has Been Released [spring.io]
- >> What’s New in IntelliJ IDEA 2026.3 and What’s fixed in IntelliJ IDEA 2026.3 [jetbrains.com]
- >> RuleBox 2.0: Business Rules Without the Business Logic Mess [foojay.io]
- >> Quarkus 3.40.1.2 and 3.33.4.2 [quarkus.io]
- >> Jetty 12.1.15 and 12.0.41 [github.com/jetty]
- >> Elasticsearch 8.19.25 [github.com/elastic]
- >> Micronaut Core 5.2.23 and 4.10.37 and 3.10.19 and 3.10.18 [github.com/micronaut-projects]
- >> Payara 7.2026.11 [github.com/payara]
2. Technical & Musings
>> Tests as data [martinfowler.com]
A very current problem – AI agents can write both the production code and the tests, what still protects us from functional errors? An interesting weekend read.
Also worth reading:
- >> AWS Emulator and the engineer’s job when agents write the code [allthingsdistributed.com]
- >> Where Does The Experience Come From? [foojay.io]
- >> Setting Up a DuckDB Quack Server: A Hello World [foojay.io]
- >> Long-horizon agents and durable execution [martinfowler.com]
- >> Fact-Checking at Scale: Building a More Accurate and Efficient Synopsis Factuality System [netflixtechblog.com]
- >> Skills across coding assistants [frankel.ch]
- >> Controlling your AI agents from a game handheld [codepipes.com]
- >> Identity as an Architectural Concern: Enterprise IAM Beyond Authentication [infoq.com]
- >> The Data Product Platform Navigator [martinfowler.com]
3. Pick of the Week
>> 1,000 True Fans [kk.org]
