Newsletter – Week 52, 2025

December 29, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

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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Newsletter – Week 51, 2025

December 29, 2025December 29, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

This Week in Spring – December 16th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/12/16/this-week-in-spring-december-16th-2025
Java News Roundup: Spring Tools 5, TornadoVM, Payara Platform, Hibernate ORM, Spock Framework
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/java-news-roundup-dec08-2025/

Articles

JEP 500: Java to Enforce Strict Final Field Immutability by Restricting Reflection
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/jdk26-final-fields-reflection/
TornadoVM 2.0 Brings Automatic GPU Acceleration and LLM Support to Java
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/tornadovm-20-gpu-llm/
Beyond Ergonomics: How the Azure Command Launcher for Java Improves GC Stability and Throughput on Azure VMs
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/beyond-ergonomics-how-the-azure-command-launcher-for-java-improves-gc-stability-and-throughput-on-azure-vms/
What do people love about Rust?
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/19/what-do-people-love-about-rust/
Rust unit testing: basic HTTP testing
https://jorgeortiz.dev/posts/rust_unit_testing_basic_http_srvr/
Secure your Rust projects against supply chain attacks with Dev Containers
https://kerkour.com/rust-devcontainers
Where Architects Sit in the Era of AI
https://www.infoq.com/articles/architects-ai-era/
You Don’t Need to Spend $100/mo on Claude Code: Your Guide to Local Coding Models
https://www.aiforswes.com/p/you-dont-need-to-spend-100mo-on-claude
MCP Moves to the Linux Foundation: Neutral Stewardship for Agentic Infrastructure
https://glama.ai/blog/2025-12-15-mcp-moves-to-the-linux-foundation-neutral-stewardship-for-agentic-infrastructure
NextGen Search – Where AI Meets OpenSearch through MCP
https://www.infoq.com/articles/nextgen-search-ai-opensearch-mcp/
The great AI hype correction of 2025
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1129174/the-great-ai-hype-correction-of-2025/

Videos

Java’s Progress in 2025 – Inside Java Newscast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fihoz8Zbk3w
Everything You Wanted to Ask About Rust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev-Vm_7I-nk
The history of servers, the cloud, and what’s next – with Oxide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn_P9nG0zsA
Engineering AI Agents — University of San Diego Guest Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0sTt6OYrfo
How Intelligent Is AI, Really?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBlIgs6w7Ss
The future of intelligence | Demis Hassabis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqVbypvxDto

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Newsletter – Week 50, 2025

December 14, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 26 in Rampdown, JDK 27 Expert Group, GlassFish, TornadoVM, Spring gRPC
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/java-news-roundup-dec01-2025/
This Week in Spring – December 9th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/12/09/this-week-in-spring-december-9th-2025
Announcing Rust 1.92.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/11/Rust-1.92.0/

Articles

On the Boundaries of Final
https://norlinder.nu/posts/On-the-Boundaries-of-Final/
Fray Detects Concurrency Issues in JVM Languages
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/fray-detects-concurrency-issues/
InfoQ Java Trends Report 2025
https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-trends-report-2025/
Rust unit testing: file writing
https://jorgeortiz.dev/posts/rust_unit_testing_file_writing/
Rust unit testing: buffered file reading
https://jorgeortiz.dev/posts/rust_unit_testing_file_buf_reading/
From Batch to Streaming: Accelerating Data Freshness in Uber’s Data Lake
https://www.uber.com/blog/from-batch-to-streaming-accelerating-data-freshness-in-ubers-data-lake/
Blazing Fast OLAP on Uber’s Inventory and Catalog Data with Apache Pinot™
https://www.uber.com/blog/blazing-fast-olap-on-ubers-inventory-and-catalog-data-with-apache-pinot/
Design Patterns for Long-Term Memory in LLM-Powered Architectures
https://serokell.io/blog/design-patterns-for-long-term-memory-in-llm-powered-architectures
A differentially private framework for gaining insights into AI chatbot use
https://research.google/blog/a-differentially-private-framework-for-gaining-insights-into-ai-chatbot-use/
Machine-learning model improves liver transplant decision-making
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/11/machine-learning-model-liver-transplants-research

Videos

There is a missing tool in your Java data structure toolkit – DataFrames!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5rn3IH9LjA
Modern Bytecode Instrumentation with ByteBuddy – Rafael Winterhalter | The Marco Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzfhxgkBL9s
Why Rust is coming to the Linux kernel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enUkMK5JQY8
Rust is now a core part of the Linux Kernel (Officially!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8a2alQPw3Y
Securing AI Assistants: Strategies and Practices for Protecting Data
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/securing-ai-assistants/
When off-the-shelf AI won’t cut it: the real deal on model customization | Amazon Web Services
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHzxpPD0ekM
The arrival of AGI | Shane Legg (co-founder of DeepMind)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3u_FAv33G0
Google DeepMind robotics lab tour with Hannah Fry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UALxgn1MnZo

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Newsletter – Week 49, 2025

December 7, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Spring Cloud, Quarkus, Hibernate ORM, JobRunr, LangChain4j, Java Operator SDK
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/java-news-roundup-nov24-2025/
This Week in Spring – December 2nd, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/12/02/this-week-in-spring-december-2nd-2025
crates.io: Malicious crates finch-rust and sha-rust
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/05/crates.io-malicious-crates-finch-rust-and-sha-rust/
crates.io: Malicious crates evm-units and uniswap-utils
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/03/crates.io-malicious-crates-evm-units-and-uniswap-utils/

Articles

JEP 526 Simplifies Deferred Initialization ahead of JDK 26
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/jep526-lazy-constants/
Tor Ditches C for Rust and Your Privacy Benefits
https://www.sambent.com/tor-ditches-c-for-rust-and-your-privacy-benefits/
Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/
10 scientific breakthroughs from Microsoft researchers
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/10-scientific-breakthroughs-from-microsoft-researchers/
AI-native 6G: From networks to intelligence fabrics
https://www.amazon.science/blog/ai-native-6g-from-networks-to-intelligence-fabrics

Videos

All Features in Java 26 – Inside Java Newscast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPX5HrgYoGg
Agent Orchestration with LangChain4J
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGbxFO_pPNI
Why 2026 is your last chance to learn Rust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4-t2hZ9T2A
Being a founding engineer at an AI startup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYN7ZULM84U

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