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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News

• Java News Roundup: WildFly 39, Open Liberty, Spring Framework, JobRunr, Gradle, Micrometer
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/java-news-roundup-jan12-2026/
• This Week in Spring – January 20th, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/01/20/this-week-in-spring-january-20th-2026
• Announcing Rust 1.93.0
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/01/22/Rust-1.93.0/

Articles

• Optimizing GPU Programs from Java using Babylon and HAT
  https://openjdk.org/projects/babylon/articles/hat-matmul/hat-matmul
• Spring AI Agentic Patterns (Part 3): Why Your AI Agent Forgets Tasks (And How to Fix It)
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/01/20/spring-ai-agentic-patterns-3-todowrite
• Burn 0.20.0 Release: Unifying CPU & GPU kernels with CubeCL
  https://burn.dev/blog/release-0.20.0/
• Structuring a Gtk4 Rust App
  https://w-graj.net/posts/rust-gtk4-mvpvm/
• Rust’s standard library on the GPU
  https://www.vectorware.com/blog/rust-std-on-gpu/
• Artificial Intelligence and the Great Divergence
  https://www.whitehouse.gov/research/2026/01/artificial-intelligence-and-the-great-divergence/
• Looking ahead at AI and work in 2026
  https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/looking-ahead-ai-and-work-2026
• Multimodal reinforcement learning with agentic verifier for AI agents
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/multimodal-reinforcement-learning-with-agentic-verifier-for-ai-agents/

Videos

• Carrier Classes; Beyond Records – Inside Java Newscast
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpGceyn7DBE
• Is Rust a good alternative to frameworks like Next.js, Laravel, Django for web development in 2026?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYYJSUsfjg
• How S3 is built
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vL6aCvgQXU
• Stop Overengineering: Workflows vs AI Agents Explained
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rO2fv6tSsQ

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News

• Java News Roundup: Spring gRPC, Quarkus, Gatherers4j, Keycloak, Grails, Java Operator SDK
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/java-news-roundup-jan05-2026/
• This Week in Spring – January 13th, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/01/13/this-week-in-spring-january-13th-2026

Articles

• One Giant Leap: 95% Less Sampling Cost
  https://norlinder.nu/posts/User-CPU-Time-JVM/
• Spring AI Agentic Patterns (Part 1): Agent Skills – Modular, Reusable Capabilities
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/01/13/spring-ai-generic-agent-skills
• Spring AI Agentic Patterns (Part 2): AskUserQuestionTool – Agents That Clarify Before Acting
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/01/16/spring-ai-ask-user-question-tool
• What does it take to ship Rust in safety-critical?
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/01/14/what-does-it-take-to-ship-rust-in-safety-critical/
• The State of Rust Cryptography in 2026
  https://kerkour.com/rust-cryptography-ecosystem-2026
• How we built Remails: a European Mail Transfer Agent
  https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/197/remails
• Lyft’s Feature Store: Architecture, Optimization, and Evolution
  https://eng.lyft.com/lyfts-feature-store-architecture-optimization-and-evolution-7835f8962b99
• My first two months using AI
  https://advancedweb.hu/my-first-two-months-using-ai/
• Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
  https://research.google/blog/hard-braking-events-as-indicators-of-road-segment-crash-risk/
• Next generation medical image interpretation with MedGemma 1.5 and medical speech to text with MedASR
  https://research.google/blog/next-generation-medical-image-interpretation-with-medgemma-15-and-medical-speech-to-text-with-medasr/
• AI Trends to Watch In 2026
  https://innovation.ebayinc.com/stories/ai-trends-to-watch-in-2026/
• Making Sense of Memory in AI Agents
  https://www.leoniemonigatti.com/blog/memory-in-ai-agents.html

Videos

• 1B Rows with the Memory API – JEP Cafe #25
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVORyDhQzf8
• The Static Dynamic JVM – A Many Layered Dive #JVMLS
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCxYsdeglDA
• Java Concurrency from the Trenches: Lessons Learned in the Wild
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/java-grpc-workload/
• 9 Lessons Learned from Deploying GenAI at Scale • Garth Gilmour & Stuart Greenlees • GOTO 2025
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRL2sRDg_DA
• From Generic to Sharp: A Clean-Up Process for AI-Assisted Writing
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMlvTbg1hVk

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News

• Java News Roundup: Spring Shell, JReleaser, TornadoInsight, Apache Camel
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/java-news-roundup-dec29-2025/
• This Week in Spring – January 6th, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/01/06/this-week-in-spring-january-06th-2026

Articles

• JEP 525 Brings Timeout Handling and Joiner Refinements to Java’s Structured Concurrency
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/timeout-joiner-refinements/
• Run Into the New Year with Java’s Ahead-of-Time Cache Optimizations
  https://inside.java/2026/01/09/run-aot-cache/
• Introduction to SIMD programming in pure Rust
  https://kerkour.com/introduction-rust-simd
• Five AI trends impacting telecom in 2026
  https://www.blog.adtran.com/en/five-ai-trends-impacting-telecom-in-2026
• Agentic Terminal – How Your Terminal Comes Alive with CLI Agents
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/agentic-terminal-cli-agents/
• Vibe Coding: How AI Is Shaping a New Paradigm in Software Development
  https://hackernoon.com/vibe-coding-how-ai-is-shaping-a-new-paradigm-in-software-development
• The State of Production ML in 2025
  https://ethical.institute/state-of-ml-2025

Videos

• Java’s Plans for 2026 – Inside Java Newscast #104
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lYsDMOc7hM
• Enterprise Java Can Do Games Too!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wUMDNuzP7M
• 14 Rust Smart Pointers Compared
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNhfQimiwEs
• Fast and Safe Image Decoding in Rust—by Jonathan Behrens—Seattle Rust User Group, December 2025
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ANzF7UwbZM
• ere: Compiling Regular Expressions at Build-Time—by Kai Orita—Seattle Rust User Group, December 2025
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SFx-emI5r4
• Hacking AI Systems: How to (Still) Trick Artificial Intelligence • Katharine Jarmul • GOTO 2025
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz0L0rRV7RE
• When AI Agents Make Sense (And When They Don’t)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOpLKJYOvXs

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News

• Java News Roundup: Spring Vault, LangChain4j, Seed4J, Infinispan, Gradle
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/java-news-roundup-dec22-2025/

Articles

• Java at Microsoft: 2025 Year in Review
  https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/java-at-microsoft-2025-year-in-review/
• This Year in Spring – December 30th, 2025
  https://spring.io/blog/2025/12/30/this-year-in-spring-december-30th-2025
• The Adult in the Room: Why It’s Time to Move AI from Python Scripts to Java Systems
  https://www.the-main-thread.com/p/java-ai-production-python-systems
• Part 1: Tokenization, Building an LLM From Scratch in Rust – Tag1 Insights
  https://www.tag1.com/how-to/part1-tokenization-building-an-llm-from-scratch-in-rust/
• Stop Guessing, Start Improving: Using DORA Metrics and Process Behavior Charts
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/DORA-metrics-PBCs/
• Developers remain willing but reluctant to use AI: The 2025 Developer Survey results are here
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/12/29/developers-remain-willing-but-reluctant-to-use-ai-the-2025-developer-survey-results-are-here/
• The State Of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and Predictions
  https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/state-of-llms-2025
• 2026 AI trends: What leaders need to know to stay competitive
  https://www.imd.org/ibyimd/artificial-intelligence/2026-ai-trends-what-leaders-need-to-know-to-stay-competitive/
• 17 predictions for AI in 2026
  https://www.understandingai.org/p/17-predictions-for-ai-in-2026

Videos

• What you missed about Rust in 2025 – Rust Official blog recap
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ziyY7_Dw0
• Should you learn Rust in 2026? Watch 5 minutes of this video
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCi2Lr-awYI
• Rust’s hardest features explained
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RsgFFp67eo
• From Confusion to Clarity: Advanced Observability Strategies for Media Workflows at Netflix
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/stream-pipeline-observability/
• Your Codebase, Your Rules
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fZZz_gIE8A
• Your Prompts Aren’t the Problem—Your Context Is
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUy9dHuHM6s
• Fix SLO Breaches before They Repeat: an SRE AI Agent for Application Workloads
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/sre-java-agent/

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News

• Java News Roundup: GlassFish, TornadoVM, Spring Shell, WildFly, Hibernate, Kotlin
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/java-news-roundup-dec15-2025/
• This Week in Spring – December 23rd, 2025
  https://spring.io/blog/2025/12/23/this-week-in-spring-december-23rd-2025

Articles

• Explainable AI Agents: Capture LLM Tool Call Reasoning with Spring AI
  https://spring.io/blog/2025/12/23/spring-ai-tool-argument-augmenter-tzolov
• Beyond the Hype: Crossing the GenAI Divide in Real-World Business
  https://serokell.io/blog/beyond-the-hype-crossing-the-genai-divide-in-real-world-business
• What’s next in AI: 7 trends to watch in 2026
  https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/whats-next-in-ai-7-trends-to-watch-in-2026/

Videos

• Predictability or Innovation? Both! – Inside Java Podcast 43
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMVQjn7cMNs
• Virtual Threads in the Real World: Fast, Robust Java Microservices with Helidon
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vhq2I5bSG0
• Jump-Start Your Data Science Learning Java & Jupyter Notebooks
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAWa_pl5eFQ
• Powering Enterprise AI Applications with Data and Open Source Software
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/feast/
• What People Miss When They Say AI Thinks Like Us
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm4P6ryfezI

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