News

• Java News Roundup: Strict Field Initialization, GlassFish, GraalVM, JReleaser, RefactorFirst
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/07/java-news-roundup-jun29-2026/
• Announcing Rust 1.97.0
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/07/09/Rust-1.97.0/

Articles

• A Guide to Agent Skills in Spring AI
  https://www.baeldung.com/spring-ai-agent-skills
• Rust in the Linux Kernel
  https://rusted-kernel.com/

Videos

• Scripting JS and Python with Project Detroit – Inside Java Podcast 61
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg4NXE9tkIc
• You Don’t Need Senior Developers Anymore? – Martin Lippert | The Marco Show
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUm6DOf1NHI
• OpenAI just spent $600k on Rust
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk165jYfHpc
• 5 Things You Didn’t Know Rust Could Do
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5tu3kMmAHs
• The only guide you need for Rust’s Fn traits (Fn, FnOnce, and FnMut)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se3qSwKeLJw
• AI Storage Blueprint | Sidharth Bajaj and Venkatraghavan Srinivasan from Meta
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc_BxLsijWA
• Understanding the inner thoughts of AI
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DtMiRKg-cs

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News

• Java News Roundup: Hardwood 1.0, Endive 1.0, Azul Payara, Quarkus, WildFly, LangChain4j, OSSI
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/java-news-roundup-jun22-2026/
• This Week in Spring – June 30th, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/06/30/this-week-in-spring-june-30-2026

Articles

• New Features in Java 26
  https://www.baeldung.com/java-26-new-features
• The Unglamorous Side of Rust Web Development
  https://blog.jetbrains.com/rust/2026/06/25/rust-web-development-2026/
• Your Rust Service Isn’t Leaking — It Could Be the Allocator
  https://pranitha.dev/posts/rust-and-memory-allocators/
• Scaling Java-Based Real-Time Systems: the Hidden Tradeoffs of Event-Driven Design
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/tradeoffs-event-driven-design/
• The state of the AI economy
  https://www.exponentialview.co/p/the-state-of-the-ai-economy
• Scaling Laws, Carefully
  https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-06-24-scaling-laws/
• How AI is reshaping human skills and thinking
  https://www.apa.org/monitor/2026/07-08/ai-job-skills-thinking

Videos

• ZGC: A Decade of Redefining Java Performance
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of0fvtIRwzY
• SIMD Vectors in the HotSpot JVM – Auto Vectorization and the Vector API
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpCz6UtViEo
• How to make error handling in Rust suck less
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXUyfMuCAuc
• I Built an AI Meeting Agent with Rust and Next.js
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGZRdBS-R3Q
• How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddHQQtjIOpw
• Building Great Agent Skills: The Missing Manual
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNzCG3lw6O0

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News

• Java News Roundup: A2A Java SDK 1.0, Jakarta EE 12, JNoSQL, GraalVM, Micrometer, OpenXava, Gradle
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/java-news-roundup-jun08-2026/
• Spring News Roundup: Point Releases of Boot, Security, Integration, Modulith and Spring AI 2.0
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/spring-news-roundup-jun08-2026/
• Spring Boot 4.1 Adds gRPC Auto-Configuration, SSRF Mitigation, and Kotlin 2.3 Support
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/spring-boot-4-1/
• This Week in Spring – June 16th, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/06/16/this-week-in-spring-june-16-2026

Articles

• Tool Calling in Spring AI 2.0: A Composable, Agentic Architecture
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/06/15/spring-ai-composable-tool-calling
• Diplomat: Multi-language FFI for Rust Libraries
  https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2026/06/14/diplomat-multi-language-ffi-for-rust-libraries/
• Clustering billions of products for agentic commerce with Catalog API
  https://shopify.engineering/catalog-clustering
• AI Scenarios 2030: Helping policymakers plan for the future of AI
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-scenarios-2030-helping-policymakers-plan-for-the-future-of-ai/ai-scenarios-2030-helping-policymakers-plan-for-the-future-of-ai

Videos

• Practical Performance Tuning for Serverless Java on AWS
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/java-aws-serverless/
• Watch this Rust video (or you’ll never understand it)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSB31t7pnzE
• CI/CD with Robert Erez
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x0eq5oDOJY
• The hidden costs of cheap AI APIs
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMvIMDWVLmQ
• Fireside Chat with Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z47vatpsGPI
• The Production AI Playbook: Deploying Agents at Enterprise Scale — Sandipan Bhaumik, Databricks
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObTPqBGsEbA
• Stanford MS&E435 Economics of the AI Supercycle | Spring 2026 | Building AI Factories
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcCGzfKdCd0

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News

• Java News Roundup: JDK 27 in Rampdown, JDK 28 Expert Group, GlassFish, Infinispan, Kotlin
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/java-news-roundup-jun01-2026/

Articles

• Can Java Microservices Be As Fast As Go? A 2026 Benchmark Update
  https://medium.com/helidon/can-java-microservices-be-as-fast-as-go-a-2026-benchmark-update-e16a2e262fc4
• Semantic Search for AI Agents at Scale: Retrieval and Ranking for LinkedIn’s Hiring Assistant
  https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/ai/semantic-search-for-ai-agents-at-scale-retrieval-and-ranking-for-linkedins-hiring-assistant
• Rust Prevents Data Races, Not Race Conditions
  https://corrode.dev/blog/rust-prevents-data-races-not-race-conditions/
• Sustainable acceleration and the Agentic Software Development Life Cycle
  https://blog.scottlogic.com/2026/06/19/sustainable-acceleration-and-the-agentic-software-development-life-cycle.html
• Cart Assistant: Agentic Grocery Shopping on Uber Eats
  https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/uber-cart-assistant/
• Orchestration Patterns for Multi-Agent Systems: Performance and Trade-offs
  https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ise/coordinator-patterns-multi-agent-systems/
• Big Picture – Artificial Intelligence: Ten Investment Truths
  https://www.morganstanley.com/im/en-us/individual-investor/insights/big-picture/big-picture-artificial-intelligence.html

Videos

• Do You Really Need Hibernate?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd0BNA6m3Kw
• How Agentic Coding Can Help You Migrate Java Applications Faster
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ENZKKtUs4Y
• Rust and Web Development in 2026: Where It Actually Wins
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9MusizUQlo
• AI hype is starting to sound like religion | Tim O’Reilly
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrQu3MRSQgc
• RAG is dead, right?? — Kuba Rogut, Turbopuffer
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM6sFg_jdlE
• Self-Play for LLMs, AI for Biology, Formal Verification, and More | YC Paper Club
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rWSvrFahIY
• Loop Engineering: The New Way to Use Claude Code & Codex
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjXIIH9vcv0

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News

• Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Hazelcast, Quarkus, Hibernate, Koog, JHipster, Introducing Endive
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/java-news-roundup-may25-2026/
• This Week in Spring – June 2nd, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/06/02/this-week-in-spring-june-2-2026
• OpenTelemetry Launches “Blueprints” Initiative to Simplify Enterprise Observability Adoption
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/opentelemetry-blueprints-launch/

Articles

• We are in the golden age of Open Source, surf the wave until it crashes.
  https://kerkour.com/open-source-golden-age-ai
• Sitar-agent: Building a reliable dynamic configuration sidecar at scale
  https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/sitar-agent-building-a-reliable-dynamic-configuration-sidecar-at-scale
• Coding Is No Longer the Constraint: Scaling Developer Experience to Teams and Agents at Spotify
  https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/6/code-with-claude-coding-is-no-longer-the-constraint
• Your AI bill is out of control. Cloudflare can fix it now.
  https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway-spend-limits/
• Building a File Semantic Analyzer: Guarding Outbound Data at Scale with AI
  https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/ubers-file-analyzer
• Gemma 4 12B: The Developer Guide
  https://developers.googleblog.com/gemma-4-12b-the-developer-guide/
• How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/04/1138391/courts-coping-ai-lawsuits/
• The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/05/1138437/the-meta-hack-shows-theres-more-to-ai-security-than-mythos/

Videos

• Full-Stack AI in Java: From Cassandra to CarPlay – A Production SaaS Story
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeWOPypQ2CY
• How Fast Can You Parse 1 Billion Rows in Java? – Insane Speed Test • Roy van Rijn • GOTO 2025
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHZF-zJ3Bpg
• Intelligent JVM Monitoring: Combining JDK Flight Recorder with AI
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5d966dUfhM
• Understanding Tuples in Rust is a must!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-oUIB0yq_8
• Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlXpOGIpITM
• Architecting a Centralized Platform for Data Deletion at Netflix
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/architecting-deletion-system/
• BDD, ADR, PRD, WTF: Capturing Decisions for Humans and AI Alike — Michal Cichra, Safe Intelligence
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=504PvfXou5Y
• Beyond Transcription: Building Voice AI That Understands Conversations — Hervé Bredin, pyannoteAI
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFLlVpnGpds
• Engineering voice agents: Latency, quality, and scale — Rishabh Bhargava, Together AI
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7b1PJc7SFc
• The Art & Science of Benchmarking Agents — Vincent Chen, Snorkel AI
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNkFlCiij0U
• SWE-rebench: Lessons from Evaluating Coding Agents — Ibragim Badertdinov, Nebius
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcUJWP6WpGM
• Benchmarking semantic code retrieval on Claude Code — Kuba Rogut, Turbopuffer
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKk7sDMGDEQ
• Your next token is wrong and you can’t fix it — Brendon Dillon, Google DeepMind
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r305-aQTaU0
• Platform Teams Enabling AI – MCP/Multi-Agentic Tools across Linkedin
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-multi-agentic-tools/

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News

• Java News Roundup: WildFly, Micronaut, Spring AI, Apache Fory, GlassFish Plugin, Open Liberty
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/java-news-roundup-may18-2026/
• OpenJDK News Roundup: Vector API, Compact Object Headers and G1GC as Default in JDK 27
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/jdk-news-roundup-may18-2026/
• This Week in Spring – May 26th, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/05/26/this-week-in-spring-may-26-2026
• Announcing Rust 1.96.0
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/05/28/Rust-1.96.0/

Articles

• Rust vs Go 2026: 1.95.0 vs 1.24, 72% Admired Gap [Tested]
  https://tech-insider.org/rust-vs-go-2026-3/
• Agentic AI Workflows for OpenJDK Development
  https://joelsiks.com/posts/openjdk-ai-agents/#markdown-handoffs
• Building an AI-proof career
  https://kerkour.com/ai-proof-career
• In an AI world, the most valuable developers will be both artisans and builders
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/05/28/artisans-and-builders/
• Beyond code generation: rethinking engineering productivity in the age of AI agents
  https://dropbox.tech/culture/beyond-code-generation-rethinking-engineering-productivity-in-the-age-of-ai-agents
• How The Heck Does Shazam Work?
  https://perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-does-shazam-work
• What you need to know about AI chips
  https://epoch.ai/publications/chips-topic-overview

Videos

• Java is Memory Efficient – Inside Java Podcast 59
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_HCG1JPMQE
• Java and WebAssembly
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy0KyGLrbJo
• Why Rust is the Ideal Language for Vibe-Coding — Daniel Szoke, Sentry
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugUeZ8-b-u0
• How I deleted 95% of my agent skills and got better results — Nick Nisi, WorkOS
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy7o1g2iHY8
• Stop babysitting your agents… — Brandon Waselnuk, Unblocked
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiG2ssibKGc
• Inference, Diffusion, World Models, and More | YC Paper Club
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE1ZgJdt4uM
• Most Enterprise Agentic Projects Are Doomed, Here’s Why — Jess Grogan-Avignon & Jack Wang, Accenture
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGkzpxMdPn8
• Realtime and Batch Processing of GPU Workloads
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/realtime-gpu-workloads/

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