Newsletter – Week 17, 2025

April 28, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 25 Schedule, Spring 7.0-M4, Payara Platform, JobRunr 7.5, Jox 1.0, Commonhaus
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/java-news-roundup-apr14-2025/
OpenJDK News Roundup: Compact Source, Module Import Declarations, Key Derivation, Scoped Values
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/jdk-news-roundup-apr14-2025/
This Week in Spring – April 22nd, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/04/22/this-week-in-spring-april-22nd-2025
DeepMind Researchers Propose Defense against LLM Prompt Injection
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/deepmind-camel-promt-injection/

Articles

What If We Could Rebuild Kafka From Scratch?
https://www.morling.dev/blog/what-if-we-could-rebuild-kafka-from-scratch/
Renovate to Innovate: Fundamentals of Transforming Legacy Architecture
https://www.infoq.com/articles/fundamentals-of-transforming-legacy-architecture/
Migrating Uber’s Compute Platform to Kubernetes: A Technical Journey
https://www.uber.com/blog/migrating-ubers-compute-platform-to-kubernetes-a-technical-journey/
Distributed Cloud Computing: Enhancing Privacy with AI-Driven Solutions
https://www.infoq.com/articles/distributed-cloud-privacy-ai/
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/artificial-intelligence
“Periodic table of machine learning” could fuel AI discovery
https://news.mit.edu/2025/machine-learning-periodic-table-could-fuel-ai-discovery-0423
Introducing Mobility AI: Advancing urban transportation
https://research.google/blog/introducing-mobility-ai-advancing-urban-transportation/

Videos

Devoxx Greece 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dj2RBBGJ68&list=PLRsbF2sD7JVrfxNj1g0OASrT-z9a8avIY
Where is the Java language going?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dY57CDxR14
How Netflix Uses Java – 2025 Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpunFFS-n8I
Rust Concurrency and Parallelism – Message Passing in Rust – Full Crash Rust Tutorial for Beginners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6KEp53J3rY
Rust + SQLite: Complete Tutorial (Schema, CRUD, JSON & Async)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlyXm7bwq6k
Essential Machine Learning and AI Concepts Animated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcbuKRNtCUc
Consciousness, Reasoning and the Philosophy of AI with Murray Shanahan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Py_hWcmkU

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Newsletter – Week 16, 2025

April 20, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: WildFly 36, Spring Milestones, Betas for Open Liberty, Hibernate, LangChain4j
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/java-news-roundup-apr07-2025/
This Week in Spring – April 15th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/04/15/this-week-in-spring-april-15th-2025
The AI Continent Action Plan
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/ai-continent-action-plan

Articles

Async file IO with Java and io_uring
https://foojay.io/today/async-file-io-with-java-and-io_uring/
How ZGC allocates memory for the Java heap
https://joelsiks.com/posts/zgc-heap-memory-allocation/
High-cardinality values for build flags in Rust
https://blog.frankel.ch/high-cardinality-values-build-flags-rust/
Prompt Engineering Techniques with Spring AI
https://spring.io/blog/2025/04/14/spring-ai-prompt-engineering-patterns
Spring AI with Docker Model Runner
https://spring.io/blog/2025/04/10/spring-ai-docker-model-runner
Avoiding memory fragmentation in Rust with jemalloc
https://kerkour.com/rust-jemalloc
6 retrieval augmented generation (RAG) techniques you should know
https://blog.logrocket.com/rag-techniques/
Becoming an AI engineering company
https://vercel.com/blog/becoming-an-ai-engineering-company
Why AI Demands a New Breed of Leaders
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/why-ai-demands-a-new-breed-of-leaders/
The Future of AI in Knowledge Work: Tools for Thought at CHI 2025
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/the-future-of-ai-in-knowledge-work-tools-for-thought-at-chi-2025/
A Google Gemini model now has a “dial” to adjust how much it reasons
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/17/1115375/a-google-gemini-model-now-has-a-dial-to-adjust-how-much-it-reasons/
Advancing Invoice Document Processing at Uber using GenAI
https://www.uber.com/blog/advancing-invoice-document-processing-using-genai

Video

Preparing for the Java 21 Certification (or Learning New Features)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SU3hd0NVXE
SQL, JSON, and Java
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8k9ZCrsphc
From RAG to Enterprise AI Agents: Building Intelligent Java Apps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf952FrReFg
Devnexus 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLuTRBHCDo8&list=PLid93BOrASLPwdAIvI07xih7atlb610oy
Rust Concurrency and Parallelism – Threads in Rust – Full Crash Rust Tutorial for Beginners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lvKmkspl1w
LLM and Generative AI for Sensitive Data – Navigating Security, Responsibility, and Pitfalls in Highly Regulated Industries
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/llm-ml-security/

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Newsletter – Week 15, 2025

April 13, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile, GlassFish, TornadoVM, Micronaut, JHipster, Applet API
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/java-news-roundup-mar31-2025/
This Week in Spring – April 8th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/04/08/this-week-in-spring-april-8th-2025
crates.io security incident: improperly stored session cookies
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/04/11/crates-io-security-session-cookies.html
Kafka 4.0: KRaft Simplifies Architecture
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/kafka-4-kraft-architecture/
Meta AI Releases Llama 4: Early Impressions and Community Feedback
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/meta-ai-llama-4/
Announcing the Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/

Articles

Deterministic simulation testing for async Rust
https://s2.dev/blog/dst
Building progressive web apps using Rust
https://blog.logrocket.com/building-progressive-web-apps-rust/
How to implement cryptographically-secure API keys in Rust
https://kerkour.com/api-keys
Practical recursion schemes in Rust: traversing and extending trees
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2025-04-10-rust-recursion-schemes/
Squeezing every millisecond: How we rebuilt the Datadog Lambda Extension in Rust
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/datadog-lambda-extension-rust/
Open-source AI: Are younger developers leading the way?
https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/04/07/open-source-ai-are-younger-developers-leading-the-way/
How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025
https://hbr.org/2025/04/how-people-are-really-using-gen-ai-in-2025
Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/11/1114914/generative-ai-is-learning-to-spy-for-the-us-military/

Videos

JavaOne’25 Highlights – Inside Java Newscast #89
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjcWGDC_RuE
Sequenced Collections – Deep Dive with the Expert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yuDqkkYTGU
AI 202: Next-Level AI Mastery for Java Developers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIyj_V8h8X0
Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFDBKkEUbE8&list=PLRsbF2sD7JVpZ3O01elefwrp9l4yBWoXu&pp=0gcJCV8EOCosWNin
Rust BLAKE3 – Hashing at Speed for Large Files & Web Tokens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-0KLCAEZgY
Teaching Rustlang (incl async deep dive) – your questions answered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FdQCIJXjgo
The Philosophy of Software Design – with John Ousterhout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz451zUlF-k
Practical GenAI: Building a Chatbot Using Spring AI • Rod Johnson • YOW! 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5xglswsXdg
The Next Breakthrough In AI Agents Is Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOYSDqJdiro
Is Human Data Enough? With David Silver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzXyPGEtseI
Responsible AI for FinTech
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-fintech-ethics/

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Newsletter – Week 14, 2025

April 7, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11 and Spring AI Updates, WildFly 36 Beta, Infinispan, JNoSQL
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/java-news-roundup-mar24-2025/
This Week in Sprng – April 1st, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/04/01/this-week-in-spring-april-1st-2025
Announcing Rust 1.86.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/04/03/Rust-1.86.0.html

Articles

Six JDK 24 Features You Should Know About
https://foojay.io/today/six-jdk-24-features-you-should-know-about/
JavaOne 2025: Function and Memory Access in Pure Java
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/foreign-function-minborg/
Mutation Testing in Rust
https://blog.frankel.ch/mutation-testing-rust/
Architecting and building medium-sized web services in Rust with Axum, SQLx and PostgreSQL
https://kerkour.com/rust-web-services-axum-sqlx-postgresql
Getting started with Rust on Google Cloud
https://medium.com/google-cloud/getting-started-with-rust-on-google-cloud-ced48447ec91
Introduction to Monoio: A High-Performance Rust Runtime
https://chesedo.me/blog/monoio-introduction/
Towards fearless SIMD, 7 years later
https://linebender.org/blog/towards-fearless-simd/
Revenue Attribution Report: how we used homomorphic encryption to enhance privacy and cut network congestion by 99%
https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/data/how-we-used-homomorphic-encryption-to-enhance-privacy-and-cut-network-congestion
Beyond Chatbots: Architecting Domain-Specific Generative AI for Operational Decision-Making
https://www.infoq.com/articles/beyond-chatbots-domain-specific-genai/
The machines are rising — but developers still hold the keys
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/02/1114134/the-machines-are-rising-but-developers-still-hold-the-keys/
The evolution of graph learning
https://research.google/blog/the-evolution-of-graph-learning/
Evaluating progress of LLMs on scientific problem-solving
https://research.google/blog/evaluating-progress-of-llms-on-scientific-problem-solving/
Artificial intelligence and asset pricing: The power of transformers
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/artificial-intelligence-and-asset-pricing-power-transformers
Cyberattacks by AI agents are coming
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/04/1114228/cyberattacks-by-ai-agents-are-coming/
Taking a responsible path to AGI
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/taking-a-responsible-path-to-agi/

Videos

Java 24 Release Notes Overview – Security Update
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH7Vc9qXbFA
Stream Gatherers – Deep Dive with the Expert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5SKpfkI2U
Concerto for Java & AI – Building Production-Ready LLM Applications
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhILqEAscss
Devnexus 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7AqSBXUWII&list=PLid93BOrASLPwdAIvI07xih7atlb610oy
Voxxed Days Zürich 2025
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRsbF2sD7JVry6n9nhg9hATpz2T1JByqa
Bringing a Product Mindset to an Infrastructure Platform Team
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/product-mindset/
Organisational Sustainability with Platform Engineering • Lesley Cordero • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlUSMibsB18
Understanding Distributed Architectures – The Patterns Approach • Unmesh Joshi • YOW! 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7hJ1BHa5Oo

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