Newsletter – Week 21, 2026

May 25, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Azul Payara, WildFly, LangChain4j, OpenXava, Google ADK
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/java-news-roundup-may11-2026/
Introducing Google Antigravity 2.0
https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravity-2-0

Articles

Scaling Rust codebases: Lessons learned organizing large projects and managing errors
https://kerkour.com/rust-organize-large-projects-code-error-handling
Migrating from Go to Rust
https://corrode.dev/learn/migration-guides/go-to-rust/
Coding agents are giving everyone decision fatigue
https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/05/21/coding-agents-are-giving-everyone-decision-fatigue/
Frontier Risk Report (February to March 2026)
https://metr.org/blog/2026-05-19-frontier-risk-report/
Solving the Identity Crisis for AI Agents
https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/solving-the-agent-identity-crisis/
Crosscheck: Benchmarking AI Models in the Real World
https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/ai/crosscheck-benchmarking-ai-models-in-the-real-world
Google I/O showed how the path for AI-driven science is shifting
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/22/1137813/google-i-o-showed-how-the-path-for-ai-science-is-shifting/

Videos

Java 26: Better Language, Better APIs, Better Runtime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86eK0Or2eIE
Java AOT in Production at Netflix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kEh8hxAP4U
Rust ruined other languages for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex2Z9kHufxU
Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9xD36NCtZ8
10 Context Management Techniques That Actually Work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQglg4N_jxo
From 46% to 90%: Fine-Tuning Tiny LLMs for On-Device Agents — Cormac Brick, Google
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TiET_K-E_g
Reflections of AI: A Trilogy in 4 Parts • Rasmus Lystrøm • GOTO 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPt6Aeui5bM
Fast Models Need Slow Developers — Sarah Chieng, Cerebras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeGsFFNqRLA
The Missing Primitive for Agent Swarms — Lou Bichard, Ona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sui_OnSRlY
Your Coding Agent Should Do AI System Engineering — Ben Burtenshaw, Hugging Face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JomVvNDjGb8
Cooking with Agents — Liam Hampton, Microsoft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyHpnnlkTc8
Long-Running Agents: Evolution, Challenges, and Patterns — Ash Prabaker & Andrew Wilson, Anthropic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR-WAvEPRwE
How to Build a Self-Improving Company with AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_JsIHUfUjc
Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | The AI Native Company: How One Founder Becomes a 1000x Engineer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lri2LNYtERM
Stanford MS&E435 Economics of the AI Supercycle | Spring 2026 | Economics of Generative AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODj7ndsKnts

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Newsletter – Week 20, 2026

May 25, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: GraalVM, Spring AI, JobRunr, GlassFish, Grails, Groovy, Quarkus Agent MCP
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/java-news-roundup-may04-2026/
JEP 533 Tightens Exception Handling in Java’s Structured Concurrency for JDK 27
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/jep-533-jdk-27/
This Week in Spring – May 12th, 2026
https://spring.io/blog/2026/05/12/this-week-in-spring-may-12-2026

Articles

The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon, Cloudflare and Discord
https://kerkour.com/the-limits-of-rust
We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations—and it scaled
https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
What Is Code?
https://martinfowler.com/articles/what-is-code.html
Lessons from Building a First-Pass AI PRD Reviewer at Uber
https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/first-pass-prd/
Measuring the Self-Reported Impact of Early-2026 AI on Technical Worker Productivity
https://metr.org/blog/2026-05-11-ai-usage-survey/

Videos

Caching for Agentic Java Systems: Internal, Distributed, and Semantic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPxMiaXToWs
Java Gets Post-Quantum TLS – Inside Java Newscast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCtD53xYyZ0
Full Course: Modernize Java apps with AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_XiRAPq0mg
How Rust engineered the perfect async runtime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUg1y-yv6cs
Beyond Coding: How Senior ICs Grow Influence and Drive Impact
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/lessons-building-engineering-team/
Beyond Code Coverage: Functionality Testing with Playwright MCP — Marlene Mhangami, Microsoft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWEInOtngmM
Agents Don’t Do Standups: Building the Post-Engineer Engineering Org — Mike Spitz, PFF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMemhtlsoNk
Building a Chess Coach — Anant Dole and Asbjorn Steinskog, Take Take Take
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlzpEGHNVKQ
Self-Training Agents: Hermes Agent, HF Traces, Skills, MCP & Finetuning — Merve Noyan, Hugging Face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV56RddyFuU
What I Learned Building Multi-Agent Systems from Scratch
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/multi-agent-system-lessons/
Lessons from Trillion Token Deployments at Fortune 500s — Alessandro Cappelli, Adaptive ML
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6NShR2ccOg
What I Learned From Implementing LLM Architectures From Scratch (And How to Get Started)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXzQ7PGpO6w
Recursive Superintelligence: Why Self-Improving AI is the Next Frontier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMCBt-4b0Nc
Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | Jensen Huang from NVIDIA on the Compute Behind Intelligence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsQB0n0YV3k

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Newsletter – Week 19, 2026

May 11, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, GlassFish, Spring AI, JReleaser, A2A Java SDK, Google ADK, Gradle
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/java-news-roundup-apr27-2026/
Java OpenJDK April 2026 Patch & Security Update
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/java-openjdk-april-2026-patch-security-update/

Articles

AI in Java Series
https://www.baeldung.com/java-ai-series
Spring AI Series
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-ai-series
Teaching an AI Agent to Debug Flaky Tests
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/05/teaching-an-ai-agent-to-debug-flaky-tests/
Async Rust never left the MVP state
https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/237/async-rust-never-left-the-mvp-state
Cross-platform Rust: Analyzing how WhatsApp, Signal and more are shipping Rust to billions of devices
https://kerkour.com/rust-cross-platform-apps
SQL query generation from natural language
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ise/llm-sql-query-generation/
The 5 Layers Every Cloud Commitment Depends On
https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/five-layers-cloud/

Videos

Post-Mortem JVM Crash Analysis with jcmd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mng0DTspxpQ
The JDK Client Desktop : 2026 and Still Swinging
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux1IpWo3oXA
Agent-Agnostic Guardrails: Universal Java Code Quality with AGENTS.MD and Static Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgK9Exj3INk
Rust’s God Mode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIsKIzFz_zA
Async Rust for dummies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXtngLBkK4Q
The C4 Model – Beyond The Basics • Simon Brown • YOW! 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqTL-_tLf6I
AI Engineering Foundations: What Developers Actually Need to Know Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljOwBCdiHmg
Why TTS Models Now Look Like LLMs — Samuel Humeau, Mistral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jGAU2sbAyY
Voice AI: when is the “Her” moment? — Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_RI1kCkRbo
The Multi-Agent Architecture That Actually Ships — Luke Alvoeiro, Factory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow1we5PzK-o
The Small Model Infrastructure Nobody Built (So We Did) — Filip Makraduli, Superlinked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdh_x-uRs9g
Accelerating AI on Edge — Chintan Parikh and Weiyi Wang, Google DeepMind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm8BLHkxiAo
The 3 Eras of Generative AI Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GlYcfmiH34
Leadership in AI-Assisted Engineering
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-assisted-engineering/
AI-First Software Delivery: Balancing Innovation with Proven Practices
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-first-practices/

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Newsletter – Week 18, 2026

May 11, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK, Oracle Critical Patches, Open Liberty, Testcontainers, IntelliJ IDEA
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/java-news-roundup-apr20-2026/
Spring News Roundup: First Release Candidates of Boot, Security, Integration, Modulith, AMQP
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/spring-news-roundup-apr20-2026/
This Week in Spring – April 28th, 2026
https://spring.io/blog/2026/04/28/this-week-in-spring-april-28-2026
Raising the baseline for the nvptx64-nvidia-cuda target
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/05/01/nvptx-baseline-update/

Articles

Build a JSON Parser in Rust from Scratch
https://blog.sheerluck.dev/posts/learn-rust-structs-enums-pattern-matching-by-building-a-json-parser/
Bugs Rust Won’t Catch
https://corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wont-catch/
All databases will eventually be (re)written in Rust
https://kerkour.com/rust-databases
How to Build an LLM Knowledge Base
https://academy.dair.ai/blog/how-to-build-an-llm-knowledge-base
Wiki Builder: A Claude Code Plugin for Building LLM Knowledge Bases
https://academy.dair.ai/blog/wiki-builder-claude-code-plugin
Structured-Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD)
https://martinfowler.com/articles/structured-prompt-driven/

Videos

Make Java Safer with Flexible Constructor Bodies – Inside Java Newscast Episode #111
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wmUt__lxPY
Modernizing Java UIs Without JavaScript: Escape the Multi-Stack Trap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2W54sxjqgY
Faster Rust Testing at Scale: cargo-nextest in Practice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Trc-mqLlI
Systems Programming in 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKXCk3_CFbU
The 3 Words That Secretly Drive Developer Productivity & Motivation • Yanina Ledovaya • GOTO 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0j9rzME8YY
Recursion Is The Next Scaling Law In AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGtUUMNYLcc
Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNyuX1zoOgU

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Newsletter – Week 17, 2026

April 28, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

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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Newsletter – Week 16, 2026

April 19, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

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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Newsletter – Week 15, 2026

April 13, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

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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Newsletter – Week 14, 2026

April 6, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: GraalVM Build Tools, EclipseLink, Spring Milestones, Open Liberty, Quarkus
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/java-news-roundup-mar23-2026/
Helidon 4.4.0 Introduces Alignment with OpenJDK Cadence and Support via Java Verified Portfolio
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/helidon-4-4-released/
Changes to WebAssembly targets and handling undefined symbols
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/04/04/changes-to-webassembly-targets-and-handling-undefined-symbols/
Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-4/

Articles

LLM Knowledge Bases
https://academy.dair.ai/blog/llm-knowledge-bases-karpathy
Gemma 4: Expanding the Gemmaverse with Apache 2.0
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/03/gemma-4-expanding-the-gemmaverse-with-apache-20.html
Beyond the Hype: Is AI taking the fun out of software development?
https://blog.scottlogic.com/2026/04/01/beyond-the-hype-is-ai-taking-fun-out-of-software-development.html
Why we’re rethinking cache for the AI era
https://blog.cloudflare.com/rethinking-cache-ai-humans/
AI benchmarks are broken. Here’s what we need instead.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/31/1134833/ai-benchmarks-are-broken-heres-what-we-need-instead/
Developer’s Guide to Building ADK Agents with Skills
https://developers.googleblog.com/developers-guide-to-building-adk-agents-with-skills/

Videos

Analyzing Crashed JVMs – Inside Java Newscast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KO_JKy9fNA
JDK 8 to 25 Without the Pain – Engineering a Modern Java Platform
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPLA472hkcs
The API is the Platform • Shamasis Bhattacharya • GOTO 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70hmVqBO1gI
Are We Ready for the Next Cyber Security Crisis Like Log4shell?
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/cyber-security-log4shell/
The Principal Engineer’s Path: Skills, Strategies, and Lessons Learned
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/principal-engineer-path/
Reliable AI Agents Using Domain Modeling with Koog in Java
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg3BN36v-wQ
Will AI Agents Make Bias Worse?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–WihC6AJOw

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Newsletter – Week 13, 2026

April 6, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

This Week in Spring – March 24th, 2026
https://spring.io/blog/2026/03/24/this-week-in-spring-march-24th-2026
Announcing Rust 1.94.1
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/26/1.94.1-release/
Spring News Roundup: Third Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Integration, AI and AMQP
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/spring-news-roundup-mar16-2026/
Important updates: GitHub Copilot support ending for JetBrains 2024.2 and 2024.3
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/important-updates-ghsupport-ending-for-jetbrains-2024-2-and-2024-3/

Articles

Rust threads on the GPU
https://www.vectorware.com/blog/threads-on-gpu/
A one-line Kubernetes fix that saved 600 hours a year
https://blog.cloudflare.com/one-line-kubernetes-fix-saved-600-hours-a-year/
LangChain4j got a new video series
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/%f0%9f%93%a2langchain4j-got-a-new-video-series/
Context engineering for IDEs: Agents.md & agent skills
https://blog.logrocket.com/context-engineering-for-ides-agents-md-agent-skills/

Videos

Carrier Classes & Discussing Syntax – Inside Java Podcast 52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6cXuA84c9g
JavaFX 26 Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3eHldNlHlU
From Friction to Flow: How Great DevEx Makes Everything Awesome
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/devex-highlights/
Nicole Forsgren: Leading high-performing engineering teams in the age of AI – The Pragmatic Summit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfrAaDgFgjc
Product-minded engineers in an AI-native world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cv5763UX70
A Visual Tour of Modern LLM Architectures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CepbWmGie0E
François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2ZLQC8P7dc
The science of consciousness: Could a conscious AI exist? – Ri Science Podcast with Anil Seth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUAomRo4is8
Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution | Lex Fridman Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vif8NQcjVf0