Newsletter – Week 48, 2025

November 30, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Liberica JDK, Jakarta EE, Open Liberty, Quarkus, JDKUpdater, OpenXava, Gradle
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/java-news-roundup-nov17-2025/
Spring News Roundup: GA Releases of Boot, Security, GraphQL, Integration, Modulith, Batch
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/spring-news-roundup-nov17-2025/
This Week in Spring – Spring Boot 4 edition! – November 25th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/11/25/this-week-in-spring-november-24th-2025

Articles

Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4 Deliver API Versioning, Resilience, and Null-Safe Annotations
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/spring-7-spring-boot-4/
Rust unit testing: file reading
https://jorgeortiz.dev/posts/rust_unit_testing_file_reading/
Running real-time Rust
https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/198/running-real-time-rust
Practical Performance Lessons from Apache DataFusion
https://greptime.com/blogs/2025-11-25-datafusion
Real-time data quality monitoring: Kafka stream contracts with syntactic and semantic test
https://engineering.grab.com/real-time-data-quality-monitoring
The overthinking problem in AI
https://www.amazon.science/blog/the-overthinking-problem-in-ai
Reducing Privacy leaks in AI: Two approaches to contextual integrity
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/reducing-privacy-leaks-in-ai-two-approaches-to-contextual-integrity/

Videos

Garbage Collection in Java: Choosing the Correct Collector
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Obf2LqEvyk
ONNX Based Generative AI LLMs in Java with Project Babylon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4grpNophot0
Why RUST is the future of programming (and how to start TODAY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgJ8d9yQtKY
Unwrapping Async/await in Rust (incl. futures, executors and tokio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45FzYwoOXRQ
Code security for software engineers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urVf2oNqtXU
Stanford AI Club: Jeff Dean on Important AI Trends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnTw_t21ayE
AlphaFold: Grand challenge to Nobel Prize with John Jumper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pGs0btGmgY
The Thinking Game | Full documentary | Tribeca Film Festival official selection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95J8yzvjbQ

_{Header image by Manolo Franco from Pixabay}

Newsletter – Week 47, 2025

November 30, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Spring Framework 7.0, Spring Data, Spring AI, Payara Platform, OpenJDK, JobRunr
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/java-news-roundup-nov10-2025/
Spring Boot 4.0.0 available now
https://spring.io/blog/2025/11/20/spring-boot-4-0-0-available-now

Articles

OpenTelemetry with Spring Boot
https://spring.io/blog/2025/11/18/opentelemetry-with-spring-boot
From Complexity to Simplicity: Intelligent JVM Optimizations on Azure
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/from-complexity-to-simplicity-intelligent-jvm-optimizations-on-azure/
Rust unit testing: mocking library
https://jorgeortiz.dev/posts/rust_unit_testing_mocking_library/
How Cloudflare uses Rust to serve (and break) millions of websites at 50+ millions requests per second
https://kerkour.com/how-cloudflare-uses-rust
The Mirage of Autonomous AI Scientists
https://substack.com/home/post/p-176702365
Enhancing Uber’s Guidance Heatmap with Deep Probabilistic Models
https://www.uber.com/blog/enhancing-ubers-guidance-heatmap-with-deep-probabilistic-models/
LyftLearn Evolution: Rethinking ML Platform Architecture
https://eng.lyft.com/lyftlearn-evolution-rethinking-ml-platform-architecture-547de6c950e1

Videos

Java 26 Warns of Deep Reflection – Inside Java Newscast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdHkbEIdBAs
Symbolic Modeling and Transformation of Java Code
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbXobiQN8Fw
Off-CPU Profiling & Latency Diagnostics in Java
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWC8h9AFR0I
21+ Rust Pro Tips (TOP SECRET)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53XYcpCgQWE
Trust No One: Securing the Modern Software Supply Chain with Zero Trust
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/trust-security-cloud-native/
How AI will change software engineering – with Martin Fowler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQmI4XKTa0U
Inside Google’s X, The Moonshot Factory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FUBhFXE114

_{Header image by Paul Walkinshaw from Pixabay}

Newsletter – Week 46, 2025

November 19, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: New Jakarta AI Specification, GlassFish, Spring RCs, Infinispan 16, Open Liberty
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/java-news-roundup-nov03-2025/
OpenJDK News Roundup: Vector API, Ahead-of-Time Object Caching, Prepare to Make Final Mean Final
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/jdk-news-roundup-nov03-2025/
This Week in Spring – November 10th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/11/10/this-week-in-spring-november-11th-2025
Announcing Rust 1.91.1
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/11/10/Rust-1.91.1/

Articles

Null-safe applications with Spring Boot 4
https://spring.io/blog/2025/11/12/null-safe-applications-with-spring-boot-4
LLM Response Evaluation with Spring AI: Building LLM-as-a-Judge Using Recursive Advisors
https://spring.io/blog/2025/11/10/spring-ai-llm-as-judge-blog-post
Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
https://security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust-in-android-move-fast-fix-things.html
Building Rust Web Apps
https://www.shuttle.dev/blog/2025/11/12/build-rust-web-apps
What happened with AI in 2025?
https://www.gtlaw.com.au/insights/what-happened-with-ai-in-2025
Reducing False Positives in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Semantic Caching: a Banking Case Study
https://www.infoq.com/articles/reducing-false-positives-retrieval-augmented-generation/
Differentially private machine learning at scale with JAX-Privacy
https://research.google/blog/differentially-private-machine-learning-at-scale-with-jax-privacy/

Videos

Deep Dive into Gatherers – JEP Cafe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgQQIV3B-uo
Beyond the Vector API – A Quest for a Lower Level API
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZLVj4UVSj0
10 Underrated Rust Features & Patterns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QwqShxyHtc
Christian Legnitto Interview, Maintainer: rust-gpu, rust-cuda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=monOq_uHHcg
Rust & JavaScript – Jakob Meier – Rust Zürisee November 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEHi7FZjSYw

_{Header image by Dimitris Vetsikas from Pixabay}

Newsletter – Week 45, 2025

November 10, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs for JDK 26, Spring RCs, Quarkus, JReleaser, Seed4J, Gradle
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/java-news-roundup-oct27-2025/
This Week in Spring – November 4th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/11/04/this-week-in-spring-november-4th-2025
Grails 7.0, Now under the Apache Software Foundation, Delivers Enhancements for Micronaut and GORM
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/grails-7-released/

Articles

Create Self-Improving AI Agents Using Spring AI Recursive Advisors
https://spring.io/blog/2025/11/04/spring-ai-recursive-advisors
Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust
https://corrode.dev/blog/defensive-programming/
Neural Networks with Candle
https://pranitha.dev/posts/neural-networks-with-candle/
Rust is eating the world: From embedded firmware to cross-platform applications, databases and big servers
https://kerkour.com/rust-is-eating-the-world
Announcing Magika 1.0: now faster, smarter, and rebuilt in Rust
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/11/announcing-magika-10-now-faster-smarter.html
“You Don’t Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres” Considered Harmful
https://www.morling.dev/blog/you-dont-need-kafka-just-use-postgres-considered-harmful/
Replication redefined: How we built a low-latency, multi-tenant data replication platform
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/cdc-replication-search/
A History of Large Language Models
https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2025/10/01/large-language-models/
101 gen AI use cases with technical blueprints
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/real-world-gen-ai-use-cases-with-technical-blueprints

Videos

Try the New Valhalla EA Build – Inside Java Newscast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eua3nTkye2Y
Integrity by Default
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTPRTkny7kQ
Supercharge your JVM Performance with Project Leyden and Spring Boot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izLzgnMMjbU
Java and AI for Beginners – Full Series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPlJf5DA5So
Serialization 2 0: A Marshalling Update!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F89sNgG9dRY
Idiomatic Rust in Simple Steps
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW2L8KbM0O7aRi_Bt4YE1JuW9EdMs0ztR
GenAI Grows Up: Building Production-Ready Agents on the JVM • Rod Johnson • GOTO 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMDw0nlWd7s
Achieving Precision in AI: Retrieving the Right Data Using AI Agents
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-precision-rag-agents/
From Swift to Mojo and high-performance AI Engineering with Chris Lattner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxp3131i1yE
The most normal car on the road? Waymo with Vincent Vanhoucke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t2pMtJGv6k

_{Header image by Michael Treu from Pixabay}

Newsletter – Week 44, 2025

November 7, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Oracle Critical Patch Update, BellSoft, Grails, Hazelcast, Langchain4j
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/10/java-news-roundup-oct20-2025/
Spring News Roundup: First Release Candidates of Boot, Security, GraphQL, Integration, Modulith
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/10/spring-news-roundup-oct20-2025/
This Week in Spring – October 28th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/10/28/this-week-in-spring-october-28th-2025
Announcing Rust 1.91.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/10/30/Rust-1.91.0/

Articles

Modularizing Spring Boot
https://spring.io/blog/2025/10/28/modularizing-spring-boot
Quality Outreach Heads-up – JDK 26: HTTP/3 Support Available in HTTP Client API
https://inside.java/2025/10/30/quality-heads-up/
Java and AI for Beginners: a practical video series for Java
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/java-and-ai-for-beginners-a-practical-video-series-for-java/
Introducing Spring AI Agents and Spring AI Bench
https://spring.io/blog/2025/10/28/agents-and-benchmarks
Building a RAG Application with Spring Boot, Spring AI, MongoDB Atlas Vector Search, and OpenAI
https://www.infoq.com/articles/rag-with-spring-mongo-open-ai/
How Signal uses Rust to secure the communications of millions of people
https://kerkour.com/signal-app-rust
Introducing Apache Fory™ Rust: A Versatile Serialization Framework for the Modern Age
https://fory.apache.org/blog/fory_rust_versatile_serialization_framework/
Data Analysis in Rust
https://ericfecteau.ca/data/rust-data-analysis/index.html
Continuous Performance Testing: staying fast
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2025-10-30-continuous-performance-testing/
Beyond Accidental Quality: Finding Hidden Bugs with Generative Testing
https://www.infoq.com/articles/generative-testing/
The Architectural Shift: AI Agents Become Execution Engines While Backends Retreat to Governance
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/10/ai-agent-orchestration/
The Real Limits of AI Agents in 2025
https://serokell.io/blog/the-real-limits-of-ai-agents-in-2025
StreetReaderAI: Towards making street view accessible via context-aware multimodal AI
https://research.google/blog/streetreaderai-towards-making-street-view-accessible-via-context-aware-multimodal-ai/

Videos

Value Classes Heap Flattening – What to expect from JEP 401
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF4CpL_EWFI
A Quick Start to Rust Lang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTXtdbt1PFA
Mechanical Sympathy in Rust Performance Optimization — by Brian Pane — Seattle Rust, October 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xe9vQL0ZBY

_{Header image by Dimitris Vetsikas from Pixabay}

Software Engineering Blog

Think . Research . Share

Month: November 2025