Newsletter – Week 13, 2025

March 31, 2025March 31, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 24, GraalVM for JDK 24, Payara Platform, Kafka 4.0, Spring CVEs, JavaOne 2025
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/java-news-roundup-mar17-2025/
Spring News Roundup: Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Auth Server, GraphQL, Integration, AMQP
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/spring-news-roundup-mar17-2025/
This Week in Spring – March 25th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/03/25/this-week-in-spring-march-25th-2025
Adopting the FLS
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/03/26/adopting-the-fls.html
Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model
https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-model-thinking-updates-march-2025/

Articles

Let’s Take a Look at… JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking!
https://www.morling.dev/blog/jep-483-aot-class-loading-linking/
Clean your Memory: From Finalize to Cleaner
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-cleaner/
Fastrace: A Modern Approach to Distributed Tracing in Rust
https://fast.github.io/blog/fastrace-a-modern-approach-to-distributed-tracing-in-rust/
Applying Flow Metrics to Design Resilient Microservices
https://www.infoq.com/articles/flow-metrics-microservices/
Exploring Generative AI
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai.html
When to Use GenAI Versus Predictive AI
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/when-to-use-genai-versus-predictive-ai/
The first trial of generative AI therapy shows it might help with depression
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/28/1114001/the-first-trial-of-generative-ai-therapy-shows-it-might-help-with-depression/
The evolution of graph learning
https://research.google/blog/the-evolution-of-graph-learning/

Videos

Java 24 Release Notes Overview for Operations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODSRbi0saHo
Stable Values in Java 25 – Inside Java Newscast #88
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ynXgMrP8M
Bootiful Spring Boot: A DOGumentary • Josh Long • YOW! 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMPf373dzvM
Concerto for Java & AI – Building Production-Ready LLM Apps • Thomas Vitale • YOW! 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2wklq9Rtcc
Microsoft is using AI to convert code to Rust…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R51lAC_n_lw
The C4 Model – Misconceptions, Misuses & Mistakes • Simon Brown • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gc5pN9sGzw
How GitHub Copilot Serves 400 Million Completion Requests a Day
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/github-copilot/
How Open-Sora 2.0 Built Sora-Level Video AI for $200K (Full Breakdown)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMdvyGVICfA

Newsletter – Week 12, 2025

March 23, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java 24 Delivers New Experimental and Many Final Features
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/java24-released/
Java News Roundup: Jakarta NoSQL 1.0, Spring 7.0-M3, Maven 4.0-RC3, LangChain4j 1.0-beta2
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/java-news-roundup-mar10-2025/
This Week in Spring – March 18th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/03/18/this-week-in-spring-march-18th-2025
Announcing Rust 1.85.1
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/03/18/Rust-1.85.1.html

Articles

Java 24 : What’s New?
https://foojay.io/today/java-24-whats-new/
The Arrival of Java 24
https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/the-arrival-of-java-24
Performance Improvements in JDK 24
https://inside.java/2025/03/19/performance-improvements-in-jdk24/
Project Leyden Ships Third Option for Faster Application Start with JEP 483 in Java 24
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/java-24-leyden-ships/
Java 24 Rolls Out Today! Find Out Why It’s Aptly Named
https://foojay.io/today/java-24-rolls-out-today-find-out-why-its-aptly-named/
Java 24 and IntelliJ IDEA
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2025/03/java-24-and-intellij-idea/
A 10x faster batch job by batching PostgreSQL inserts/updates with Rust and SQLx
https://kerkour.com/postgresql-batching
Rust CUDA project update
https://rust-gpu.github.io/blog/2025/03/18/rust-cuda-update/
Extending Future in Rust
https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/extending-future-in-rust/
Transition Systems in Rust
https://minikin.me/blog/transition-systems-in-rust
AI Trends Disrupting Software Teams
https://www.infoq.com/articles/ai-trends-disrupting-software-teams/
Beyond words: AI goes multimodal to meet you where you are
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/beyond-words-ai-goes-multimodal-to-meet-you-where-you-are/
Deciphering language processing in the human brain through LLM representations
https://research.google/blog/deciphering-language-processing-in-the-human-brain-through-llm-representations/
Loss of Pulse Detection on the Google Pixel Watch 3
https://research.google/blog/loss-of-pulse-detection-on-the-google-pixel-watch-3/

Videos

What’s New in Java 24 in 2 Minutes… More or Less – Sip of Java
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDVuQM4HMSc
Java Turns 30 – Live from JavaOne 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwR7Gvi80Xo
Rebuilding Prime Video UI with Rust and WebAssembly
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/prime-video-rust/
Building Your First Platform Team in a Fast Growing Startup
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/platform-engineering-strategy/
ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNZnLkRBYA8
30 Machine Learning Facts Most People Get Wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEpEEQVGYyQ
DeepSeek’s FlashMLA Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTNW3SLP8W8

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Newsletter – Week 11, 2025

March 16, 2025March 16, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Quarkus 3.19 Prepares for LTS Release 3.20
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/quarkus-3-19/
This Week in Spring – March 11th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/03/11/this-week-in-spring-march-11th-2025

Articles

The Gatherer API
https://dev.java/learn/api/streams/gatherers/
Null Safety in Spring applications with JSpecify and NullAway
https://spring.io/blog/2025/03/10/null-safety-in-spring-apps-with-jspecify-and-null-away
When are Rust’s const fns executed?
https://felixwrt.dev/posts/const-fn/
Checklist for Kubernetes in Production: Best Practices for SREs
https://www.infoq.com/articles/checklist-kubernetes-production/
How Gen AI Could Change the Value of Expertise
https://hbr.org/2025/03/how-gen-ai-could-change-the-value-of-expertise
Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-brings-ai-into-the-physical-world/

Videos

Java 24 Release Notes Review for Developers – Inside Java Newscast #87
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV7VAWRlEW0
Virtual Threads optimal anwenden in Java 23 | JAX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wk3wtHJvPU
A Walk Along the Complexity-performance Curve
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/java-string-performance/
C++ is losing to Rust (C++ creator calls for help)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrIzHCKcS_g
Rust is the New C
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-nauaCkgo
What’s up with Rust? • Tim McNamara • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pppU–kHLP0
Developer Experience at Uber with Gautam Korlam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSrx9y7npyg

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Newsletter – Week 10, 2025

March 9, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Stable Values, Spring Modulith, Open Liberty, Quarkus, JReleaser, Gradle
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/java-news-roundup-feb24-2025/
This Week in Sprng – March 4th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/03/04/this-week-in-spring-march-4th-2025
Announcing rustup 1.28.1
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/03/04/Rustup-1.28.1.html

Articles

Let’s Take a Look at… KIP-932: Queues for Kafka!
https://www.morling.dev/blog/kip-932-queues-for-kafka/
Some things that make Rust lifetimes hard to learn
https://ntietz.com/blog/rust-lifetimes-learning/
From Event-Driven Chaos to a Blazingly Fast Serving API
https://engineering.zalando.com/posts/2025/03/event-driven-to-api.html
Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/bringing-transparency-to-data-used-to-train-artificial-intelligence
Advancing biomedical discovery: Overcoming data challenges in precision medicine
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/advancing-biomedical-discovery-overcoming-data-challenges-in-precision-medicine/
Discovering new words with confidential federated analytics
https://research.google/blog/discovering-new-words-with-confidential-federated-analytics/
From diagnosis to treatment: Advancing AMIE for longitudinal disease management
https://research.google/blog/from-diagnosis-to-treatment-advancing-amie-for-longitudinal-disease-management/
A Bit Late but Ultimate Analysis: DeepSeek
https://serokell.io/blog/a-bit-late-but-ultimate-analysis-deepseek

Videos

Java’s Hidden Gems: Tools & Libraries • Johan Janssen • YOW! 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlCpgSoOX6I
GraalVM Readiness Checklist | JAX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lR9SoRgMvA
Rust under the Hood — by Sandeep Ahluwalia — Seattle Rust User Group, January 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8caNpK3Shs
9 Rules for Porting Rust to the Browser — by Carl Kadie — Seattle Rust User Group, January 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6dahKSnuUg
Design-first software engineering: Craft – with Balint Orosz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVQoh0CIVFs
Using Agentic AI to create smarter solutions with multiple LLMs (step-by-step process)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0GNrvO7wD0
Build an LLM from Scratch 2: Working with text data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=341Rb8fJxY0

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Newsletter – Week 09, 2025

March 3, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: NetBeans 25, Payara Platform, Hibernate Reactive, Gradle
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/02/java-news-roundup-feb17-2025/
Spring News Roundup: Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Auth Server, Integration, AI and AMQP
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/02/spring-news-roundup-feb17-2025/

Articles

Introduction to MockMvcTester
https://www.petrikainulainen.net/programming/testing/introduction-to-mockmvctester/
Rust edition 2024 annotated
https://bertptrs.nl/2025/02/23/rust-edition-2024-annotated.html
Embracing Reactive Programming Using Queues
https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/embracing-reactive-programming-using-kafka-webflux-0e707d1c9e9b
Evaluating the evaluators: know your RAG metrics
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2025-02-27-rag-evaluation/
The State of Machine Learning Competitions
https://mlcontests.com/state-of-machine-learning-competitions-2024/

Videos

Scoped Values in Java 24 – Inside Java Newscast #86
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tfUJLUbZiM
Java 24 – Better Language, Better APIs, Better Runtime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NTyzL-9Bfo
Rust’s 2024 edition is finally here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4-jSupvBFs
Rust in 2025 – with Marco ieni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWqwZ8-Dr7w
Rust Nation UK 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmtykJT1acM&list=PL1AoGvxomykSSFFL4Qav3wKzL-dsi9I5L
Microservices, Where Did It All Go Wrong • Ian Cooper • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2AQ9eTZ3-0
Adaptive Architectures – Building API Layers that Build Themselves • Marty Pitt • YOW! 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bO2O999q44
A Zero Trust Future for Applications: Practical Implementation and Pitfalls
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/zero-trust-devsecops/
How I use LLMs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWvNQjAaOHw
AI Interfaces Of The Future | Design Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBhSfROq3wU
AI in Healthcare Series: State of Gen AI in Healthcare, Troy Tazbaz Former Head Digital Health FDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v44pVYj-ciw

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