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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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

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News

• Java News Roundup: Lazy Constants, TornadoVM 3.0, NetBeans 29, Quarkus, JReleaser, Open Liberty
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/java-news-roundup-feb23-2026/
• This Week in Spring – March 3rd, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/03/03/this-week-in-spring-march-3rd-2026
• Announcing Rust 1.94.0
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/05/Rust-1.94.0/

Articles

• Optimizing Recommendation Systems with JDK’s Vector API
  https://netflixtechblog.com/optimizing-recommendation-systems-with-jdks-vector-api-30d2830401ec
• 2025 State of Rust Survey Results
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/02/2025-State-Of-Rust-Survey-results/
• Using Rust and Postgres for everything: patterns learned over the years
  https://kerkour.com/rust-postgres-everything
• Designing MCP tools for agents: Lessons from building Datadog’s MCP server
  https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/mcp-server-agent-tools/

Videos

• Unboxing Java 26 for Developers – Inside Java Newscast #108
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njfzpKH4K2A
• Intelligent JVM Monitoring: Combining JDK Flight Recorder with AI
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8mDLU8RCUU
• No, Rust is NOT really hard to learn, compared to Python, JavaScript, GO, and C++
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0mnlcS0Amg
• The Unbeatable Local AI Coding Workflow (Full 2026 Setup)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zSANOIBHYw
• How AI Agents Actually Work: ReAct vs Plan-and-Execute
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-VCZ_KTuzo

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News

• Java News Roundup: JDK 26-RC1, Spring Framework, Open Liberty, EclipseStore, Gradle
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/02/java-news-roundup-feb09-2026/
• JDK 26 and JDK 27: What We Know So Far
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/02/java-26-so-far/
• GlassFish 8.0 Delivers Compatibility with Jakarta EE 11, Enhanced Security and Improved Data Access
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/02/glassfish-8-released/
• This Week in Spring – February 17th, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/02/17/this-week-in-spring-february-17th-2026

Articles

• Rust Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025: Popularity, Trends, and Future
  https://blog.jetbrains.com/rust/2026/02/11/state-of-rust-2025/
• How Rust and Its Compiler Have Revolutionized Software Engineering and Reliability
  https://kerkour.com/rust-software-engineering-reliability
• Async/await on the GPU
  https://www.vectorware.com/blog/async-await-on-gpu/
• Can’t use Claude at work? How I recreated “Skills” in GitHub Copilot
  https://blog.logrocket.com/skills-github-copilot/
• Top 7 Small Language Models You Can Run on a Laptop
  https://machinelearningmastery.com/top-7-small-language-models-you-can-run-on-a-laptop/
• The State of Machine Learning Competitions
  https://mlcontests.com/state-of-machine-learning-competitions-2025/
• Scaling Localization with AI at Lyft
  https://eng.lyft.com/scaling-localization-with-ai-at-lyft-b04dca99e6ee
• A new study explores how AI shapes what you can trust online
  https://news.microsoft.com/signal/articles/a-new-study-explores-how-ai-shapes-what-you-can-trust-online/
• Our Multi-Agent Architecture for Smarter Advertising
  https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/2/our-multi-agent-architecture-for-smarter-advertising

Videos

• Java Serialization: Spooky Action at a Distance
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sxK-z84Oi4
• The Future of Rust: Vision Doc, AI & Symposium.dev (feat. Jack Huey)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yXGYLgJ_do

News

• Java News Roundup: GlassFish 8.0, OmniHai 1.0, LangChain4j, Infinispan, Hibernate, JobRunr
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/02/java-news-roundup-feb02-2026/
• This Week in Spring – February 10th, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/02/10/this-week-in-spring-february-10th-2026
• Announcing Rust 1.93.1
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/02/12/Rust-1.93.1/

Articles

• Jakarta EE 12 Milestone 2: Advent of the Data Age along with Consistency and Configuration
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/jakartaee-12-milestone-2/
• What’s so great about Rust?
  https://bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/why-rust
• Deploying Rust to production checklist
  https://kerkour.com/rust-production-checklist
• Shedding old code with ecdysis: graceful restarts for Rust services at Cloudflare
  https://blog.cloudflare.com/ecdysis-rust-graceful-restarts/
• 6 Things About Platform Engineering Everyone Should Understand
  https://devm.io/devops/platform-engineering-podcast
• Why demand for code is infinite: How AI creates more developer jobs
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/02/09/why-demand-for-code-is-infinite-how-ai-creates-more-developer-jobs/
• How low-bit inference enables efficient AI
  https://dropbox.tech/machine-learning/how-low-bit-inference-enables-efficient-ai
• Introducing Markdown for Agents
  https://blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for-agents/
• Accelerating Mathematical and Scientific Discovery with Gemini Deep Think
  https://deepmind.google/blog/accelerating-mathematical-and-scientific-discovery-with-gemini-deep-think/

Videos

• Are You Missing a Data Frame? The Power of Data Frames in Java
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/data-frames-java/
• The Evolution of Async Rust: From Tokio to High-Level Applications
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aZaBZVJWm0
• Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons from Growing Engineering Organizations
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/scaling-engineering-teams/
• Stop using MCP for everything! (RAG vs. A2A vs. Sub-agents)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks4M8b9Ul6E
• Building Embedding Models for Large-Scale Real-World Applications
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/llm-large-scale-applications/
• AI Isn’t Random. You’re Missing the Mental Model.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnpU6SSBWao
• Stanford CS547 HCI Seminar | Winter 2026 | Does GenAI Work in Education?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IydslKdqzYo

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News

• Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 12, Spring Shell, Open Liberty, Quarkus, Tomcat, JHipster, Gradle
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/02/java-news-roundup-jan26-2026/
• This Week in Spring – February 3rd, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/02/03/this-week-in-spring-february-3rd-2026

Articles

• How We Invested in Rust in 2025 — and What Comes Next
  https://rustfoundation.org/media/annual-report-strategy-2025/
• This is the most misunderstood graph in AI
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/05/1132254/this-is-the-most-misunderstood-graph-in-ai/
• Moltbook was peak AI theater
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
• Collaborating on a nationwide randomized study of AI in real-world virtual care
  https://research.google/blog/collaborating-on-a-nationwide-randomized-study-of-ai-in-real-world-virtual-care/

Videos

• LazyConstants in JDK 26 – Inside Java Newscast
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZlXZyXA4jY
• Learn Rust by Doing: 9 Code Examples to Master the Basics
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncFIqIOUaPQ
• Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons From Growing Engineering Organizations
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/patterns-organizational-change/
• The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfMAtaocvJw
• Level Up Your LangChain4j Apps for Production
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXuKLPpleBg

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News

• Java News Roundup: Oracle Critical Patch Update, Grizzly 5, Payara Platform, GraalVM, Liberica JDK
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/java-news-roundup-jan19-2026/
• This Week in Spring – January 27th, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/01/27/this-week-in-spring-january-26th-2026
• Spring News Roundup: First Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Integration, Modulith, AMQP
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/spring-news-roundup-jan19-2026/
• Announcing Rust 1.93.0
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/01/22/Rust-1.93.0/

Articles

• Spring AI Agentic Patterns (Part 4): Subagent Orchestration
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/01/27/spring-ai-agentic-patterns-4-task-subagents
• Spring AI Agentic Patterns (Part 5): Building Interoperable Agents with the Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/01/29/spring-ai-agentic-patterns-a2a-integration
• Anthropic Agent Skills Support in Spring AI
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/01/28/apring-ai-anthropic-agentic-skills
• Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp
  https://engineering.fb.com/2026/01/27/security/rust-at-scale-security-whatsapp/
• Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”
  https://kerkour.com/turso-sqlite
• Engineering LinkedIn’s job ingestion system at scale
  https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/infrastructure/engineering-linkedins-job-ingestion-system-at-scale
• Are bugs and incidents inevitable with AI coding agents?
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/01/28/are-bugs-and-incidents-inevitable-with-ai-coding-agents/

Videos

• Scripting Java, Collections & Generics, BeJUG – Inside Java Podcast 44
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4f0FHizUCg
• Level Up Your LangChain4j Apps for Production
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXuKLPpleBg
• Axum Tutorial: Extractors, Routes & JSON Handling (Rust Web Dev)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HovmPET2-L8
• AI should write rust and only rust 😉 — by Patrick Gray — Seattle Rust User Group, January 2026
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lhr-QDWv-k
• The 12 Questions That Decide Your AI Architecture
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMMlLB01rcE
• State of LLMs 2026: RLVR, GRPO, Inference Scaling — Sebastian Raschka
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5WPr5dtne0
• State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV7WhVT270Q

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