News

• Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Jakarta EE 12, Spring Framework, Micrometer, Camel, JBang
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/java-news-roundup-apr13-2026/
• This Week in Spring – April 21st, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/04/21/this-week-in-spring-april-21-2026
• Google ADK for Java 1.0 Introduces New App and Plugin Architecture, External Tools Support, and More
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/google-adk-1-0-new-architecture/

Articles

• What 81,000 people told us about the economics of AI
  https://www.anthropic.com/research/81k-economics
• 10 things that matter in AI right now
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1135643/10-ai-artificial-intelligence-trends-technologies-research-2026/
• ReasoningBank: Enabling agents to learn from experience
  https://research.google/blog/reasoningbank-enabling-agents-to-learn-from-experience/

Videos

• State of the Art of Java in 2026 • Ben Evans • GOTO 2026
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Pq69Y_yqM
• Module Adoption? JDK Build Tool? Lombok? Backwards Compatibility? – Ask the Architects at JavaOne’26
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrF4dCC0daE
• How the JVM Optimizes Generic Code – A Deep Dive
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4O5h3xpIY8
• Copilot in Your Java Tooling: From CLI to SDK to Plugins
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojnrQBcXDik
• Rust Parallelism with Rayon – Use ALL CPUs
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC6UWzX3Xug
• Making Rust Workers reliable: panic and abort recovery in wasm‑bindgen
  https://blog.cloudflare.com/making-rust-workers-reliable/
• Full Walkthrough: Workflow for AI Coding — Matt Pocock
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QFHIoCo-Ko
• “Software Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever” — Matt Pocock
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4F1gFy-hqg
• Running LLMs on your iPhone: 40 tok/s Gemma 4 with MLX — Adrien Grondin, Locally AI
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2muGkT4WD4
• MCP = Mega Context Problem – Matt Carey
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBYUvGOuotE
• Self-Improving AI Is No Longer Theory
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky1TkRWA65M
• How Google DeepMind is researching the next Frontier of AI for Gemini — Raia Hadsell, VP of Research
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZsTVBXcbow

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News

• Java News Roundup: JDK 27 Release Schedule, Hibernate, LangChain4j, Keycloak, Helidon, Junie CLI
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/java-news-roundup-apr06-2026/
• Oracle Java Extension for Visual Studio Code Version 25.1.0 Is Now Available
  https://inside.java/2026/04/14/java-vscode-extension-update/
• This Week in Spring – April 14th, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/04/14/this-week-in-spring-april-14-2026
• Announcing Rust 1.95.0
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/04/16/Rust-1.95.0/

Articles

• The Spring Team on Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/spring-team-spring-7-boot-4/
• Anthropic Introduces Agent-Based Code Review for Claude Code
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/claude-code-review/
• Meta Reports 4x Higher Bug Detection with Just-in-Time Testing
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/meta-jit-testing-ai-detection/
• Accelerating Search and Ingestion with High-Performance gRPC™ in OpenSearch™
  https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/high-performance-grpc
• Shared Dictionaries: compression that keeps up with the agentic web
  https://blog.cloudflare.com/shared-dictionaries/
• Building the foundation for running extra-large language models
  https://blog.cloudflare.com/high-performance-llms/
• Domain expertise still wanted: the latest trends in AI-assisted knowledge for developers
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/03/16/domain-expertise-still-wanted-the-latest-trends-in-ai/
• We don’t really understand AI’s inner workings, so we’re effectively flying blind.
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/
• The Complete Guide to Inference Caching in LLMs
  https://machinelearningmastery.com/the-complete-guide-to-inference-caching-in-llms/
• Open Source and In-House: How Uber Optimizes LLM Training
  https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/open-source-and-in-house-how-uber-optimizes-llm-training
• ​Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind Teach Spot to Reason​
  https://spectrum.ieee.org/boston-dynamics-spot-google-deepmind
• The 2026 AI Index Report
  https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report
• Towards developing future-ready skills with generative AI
  https://research.google/blog/towards-developing-future-ready-skills-with-generative-ai/

Videos

• Rust Release Changelog – 1.95.0
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZlmaIgkUQ8
• Top 4 Rust career paths (and which one you should choose)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW_U1Tz8qac
• Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/platform-engineering-lessons/
• “The moments where you want to skip thinking are EXACTLY where thinking matters most” — Earendil
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zcw_sVF6hU
• State of the Claw — Peter Steinberger
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgNvts_2TUE
• The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EsUaur0nsQ
• US AI Labs Accused China of Stealing — But Their Own History Isn’t Clean
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkhL4Az100U

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News

• Java News Roundup: TornadoVM 4.0, Google ADK for Java 1.0, Grails, Tomcat, Log4j, Gradle
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/java-news-roundup-mar30-2026/
• This Week in Spring – April 7th, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/04/07/this-week-in-spring-april-07-2026

Articles

• How Uber Executed A JUnit Migration at Massive Scale
  https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/junit-migration/
• Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate the inevitable
  https://kerkour.com/rust-supply-chain-nightmare
• Callgraph analysis
  https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/callgraph-analysis/
• Bringing Rust to the Pixel Baseband
  https://security.googleblog.com/2026/04/bringing-rust-to-pixel-baseband.html
• A Better Alternative to Reducing CI Regression Test Suite Sizes
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/alternative-reduce-test-suite-size/
• S3 Files and the changing face of S3
  https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/s3-files-and-the-changing-face-of-s3.html
• Developing Your Leadership Skills toward Principal Engineering
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/leadership-skills/
• Quantization from the ground up
  https://ngrok.com/blog/quantization
• Stateful Continuation for AI Agents: Why Transport Layers Now Matter
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/ai-agent-transport-layer/
• Components of A Coding Agent
  https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/components-of-a-coding-agent
• The Roadmap to Mastering Agentic AI Design Patterns
  https://machinelearningmastery.com/the-roadmap-to-mastering-agentic-ai-design-patterns/
• How to Reap Compound Benefits From Generative AI
  https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-to-reap-compound-benefits-from-generative-ai/
• Why AI Systems Fail Quietly They can go wrong without crashing—and standard monitoring won’t catch it
  https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-reliability
• What are AI gateways in 2026, and do you actually need one now?
  https://ngrok.com/blog/ai-gateways-2026
• New Future of Work: AI is driving rapid change, uneven benefits
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/new-future-of-work-ai-is-driving-rapid-change-uneven-benefits/
• Mustafa Suleyman: AI development won’t hit a wall anytime soon—here’s why
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/08/1135398/mustafa-suleyman-ai-future/
• Under the Hood: Scaling Responsible AI at Uber
  https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/scaling-responsible-ai/
• AI Prototyping Is Changing How We Build Products at Uber
  https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/ai-prototyping/
• How we built a real-world evaluation platform for autonomous SRE agents at scale
  https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/bits-ai-eval-platform/

Videos

• How JDK 26 Improves G1’s Throughput – Inside Java Podcast 54
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIxIFnaEPwc
• Java and Post-Quantum Cryptography
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xh-bN4W74o
• Spring Debugger New Power: Where Should I Click to Demystify Spring Boot Magic?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUofXEeCCXo
• Netflix’s Secret to Safe Automation at Scale • Aubrey Chipman & Roberto Perez Alcolea • GOTO 2025
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfjpzCqBH0k
• State of Play: AI Coding Assistants
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-coding-assistants/
• OpenRAG: An open-source stack for RAG — Phil Nash
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TxOBhDRRCM
• Cognitive Exhaust Fumes, or: Read-Only AI Is Underrated — Šimon Podhajský, Head of AI, Waypoint
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0TOSBbAw7c
• Fireside Chat with Sam Newman and Neal Ford
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM-C6vNvIDI
• Anthropic Just Leaked Their Entire Codebase (By Accident)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uctTuckWGEw
• Building Agentic Applications with Spring AI • Matthew Meckes • GOTO 2025
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsMXl1jbnvs

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News

• Java News Roundup: Apache Solr 10, LangChain4j, Grails, JobRunr, Gradle, Devnexus, Commonhaus
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/java-news-roundup-mar02-2026/
• This Week in Spring – March 10th, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/03/10/this-week-in-spring-march-10th-2026

Articles

• Migrating jackson-datatype-money to FasterXML: A Case Study in Open Source Consolidation
  https://engineering.zalando.com/posts/2026/03/jackson-money-migration-zalando-style.html
• Secure, Scalable JVM Diagnostics for Kubernetes with JMS
  https://inside.java/2026/03/13/jms-secure-scalable-jvm/
• The Anatomy of a 500ns Parser: Porting libphonenumber to Rust
  https://dev.to/vloldik/the-anatomy-of-a-500ns-parser-porting-libphonenumber-to-rust-3daa
• Change as Metrics: Measuring System Reliability Through Change Delivery Signals
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/change-metrics-system-reliability/
• The Oil and Water Moment in AI Architecture
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/oil-water-moment-ai-architecture/
• Claude Opus 4.6 Introduces Adaptive Reasoning and Context Compaction for Long-Running Agents
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/opus-4-6-context-compaction/
• MCP is dead. Long live the CLI
  https://ejholmes.github.io/2026/02/28/mcp-is-dead-long-live-the-cli.html
• The Multi-Agent Trap
  https://towardsdatascience.com/the-multi-agent-trap/
• Microsoft Agent Framework – powering up your agentic teammate
  https://blog.scottlogic.com/2026/03/06/microsoft-agent-framework-powering-up-your-agentic-teammate.html
• When an AI agent came knocking: Catching malicious contributions in Datadog’s open source repos
  https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/stopping-hackerbot-claw-with-bewaire/
• Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion
  https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/continuous-ai-for-accessibility-how-github-transforms-feedback-into-inclusion/
• Slashing agent token costs by 98% with RFC 9457-compliant error responses
  https://blog.cloudflare.com/rfc-9457-agent-error-pages/
• Training AI for optical networks without compromising data sovereignty
  https://www.blog.adtran.com/en/training-ai-for-optical-networks-without-compromising-data-sovereignty

Videos

• Master Software Architecture: From Simplicity to Complexity • Maciej «MJ» Jedrzejewski • GOTO 2025
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCrCqbblXjk
• Are you AI-First? Is your organization AI-First? (They’re very different!)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssjYC8etCE0
• What I Look For When Hiring AI Engineers
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D89pj9cqUm4
• Ramp: Lessons from Building a New AI Product – The Pragmatic Summit
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMs8C2_3M0w
• From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yegge
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFsAOu2bgFk
• Uber: Leading engineering through an agentic shift – The Pragmatic Summit
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1tZN41VKcE
• 10 years of AlphaGo: The turning point for AI | Thore Graepel & Pushmeet Kohli
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoinGjj60Fo
• Stanford CS221: Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Techniques | Autumn 2025
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaLEGZuIIgE&list=PLoROMvodv4rMeDqwS1yFl3j3sR_-MQNEN

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