News

• Java News Roundup: WildFly 39, Open Liberty, Spring Framework, JobRunr, Gradle, Micrometer
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/java-news-roundup-jan12-2026/
• This Week in Spring – January 20th, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/01/20/this-week-in-spring-january-20th-2026
• Announcing Rust 1.93.0
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/01/22/Rust-1.93.0/

Articles

• Optimizing GPU Programs from Java using Babylon and HAT
  https://openjdk.org/projects/babylon/articles/hat-matmul/hat-matmul
• Spring AI Agentic Patterns (Part 3): Why Your AI Agent Forgets Tasks (And How to Fix It)
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/01/20/spring-ai-agentic-patterns-3-todowrite
• Burn 0.20.0 Release: Unifying CPU & GPU kernels with CubeCL
  https://burn.dev/blog/release-0.20.0/
• Structuring a Gtk4 Rust App
  https://w-graj.net/posts/rust-gtk4-mvpvm/
• Rust’s standard library on the GPU
  https://www.vectorware.com/blog/rust-std-on-gpu/
• Artificial Intelligence and the Great Divergence
  https://www.whitehouse.gov/research/2026/01/artificial-intelligence-and-the-great-divergence/
• Looking ahead at AI and work in 2026
  https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/looking-ahead-ai-and-work-2026
• Multimodal reinforcement learning with agentic verifier for AI agents
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/multimodal-reinforcement-learning-with-agentic-verifier-for-ai-agents/

Videos

• Carrier Classes; Beyond Records – Inside Java Newscast
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpGceyn7DBE
• Is Rust a good alternative to frameworks like Next.js, Laravel, Django for web development in 2026?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYYJSUsfjg
• How S3 is built
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vL6aCvgQXU
• Stop Overengineering: Workflows vs AI Agents Explained
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rO2fv6tSsQ

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News

• Java News Roundup: Spring gRPC, Quarkus, Gatherers4j, Keycloak, Grails, Java Operator SDK
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/java-news-roundup-jan05-2026/
• This Week in Spring – January 13th, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/01/13/this-week-in-spring-january-13th-2026

Articles

• One Giant Leap: 95% Less Sampling Cost
  https://norlinder.nu/posts/User-CPU-Time-JVM/
• Spring AI Agentic Patterns (Part 1): Agent Skills – Modular, Reusable Capabilities
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/01/13/spring-ai-generic-agent-skills
• Spring AI Agentic Patterns (Part 2): AskUserQuestionTool – Agents That Clarify Before Acting
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/01/16/spring-ai-ask-user-question-tool
• What does it take to ship Rust in safety-critical?
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/01/14/what-does-it-take-to-ship-rust-in-safety-critical/
• The State of Rust Cryptography in 2026
  https://kerkour.com/rust-cryptography-ecosystem-2026
• How we built Remails: a European Mail Transfer Agent
  https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/197/remails
• Lyft’s Feature Store: Architecture, Optimization, and Evolution
  https://eng.lyft.com/lyfts-feature-store-architecture-optimization-and-evolution-7835f8962b99
• My first two months using AI
  https://advancedweb.hu/my-first-two-months-using-ai/
• Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
  https://research.google/blog/hard-braking-events-as-indicators-of-road-segment-crash-risk/
• Next generation medical image interpretation with MedGemma 1.5 and medical speech to text with MedASR
  https://research.google/blog/next-generation-medical-image-interpretation-with-medgemma-15-and-medical-speech-to-text-with-medasr/
• AI Trends to Watch In 2026
  https://innovation.ebayinc.com/stories/ai-trends-to-watch-in-2026/
• Making Sense of Memory in AI Agents
  https://www.leoniemonigatti.com/blog/memory-in-ai-agents.html

Videos

• 1B Rows with the Memory API – JEP Cafe #25
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVORyDhQzf8
• The Static Dynamic JVM – A Many Layered Dive #JVMLS
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCxYsdeglDA
• Java Concurrency from the Trenches: Lessons Learned in the Wild
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/java-grpc-workload/
• 9 Lessons Learned from Deploying GenAI at Scale • Garth Gilmour & Stuart Greenlees • GOTO 2025
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRL2sRDg_DA
• From Generic to Sharp: A Clean-Up Process for AI-Assisted Writing
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMlvTbg1hVk

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News

• Java News Roundup: Spring Shell, JReleaser, TornadoInsight, Apache Camel
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/java-news-roundup-dec29-2025/
• This Week in Spring – January 6th, 2026
  https://spring.io/blog/2026/01/06/this-week-in-spring-january-06th-2026

Articles

• JEP 525 Brings Timeout Handling and Joiner Refinements to Java’s Structured Concurrency
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/timeout-joiner-refinements/
• Run Into the New Year with Java’s Ahead-of-Time Cache Optimizations
  https://inside.java/2026/01/09/run-aot-cache/
• Introduction to SIMD programming in pure Rust
  https://kerkour.com/introduction-rust-simd
• Five AI trends impacting telecom in 2026
  https://www.blog.adtran.com/en/five-ai-trends-impacting-telecom-in-2026
• Agentic Terminal – How Your Terminal Comes Alive with CLI Agents
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/agentic-terminal-cli-agents/
• Vibe Coding: How AI Is Shaping a New Paradigm in Software Development
  https://hackernoon.com/vibe-coding-how-ai-is-shaping-a-new-paradigm-in-software-development
• The State of Production ML in 2025
  https://ethical.institute/state-of-ml-2025

Videos

• Java’s Plans for 2026 – Inside Java Newscast #104
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lYsDMOc7hM
• Enterprise Java Can Do Games Too!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wUMDNuzP7M
• 14 Rust Smart Pointers Compared
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNhfQimiwEs
• Fast and Safe Image Decoding in Rust—by Jonathan Behrens—Seattle Rust User Group, December 2025
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ANzF7UwbZM
• ere: Compiling Regular Expressions at Build-Time—by Kai Orita—Seattle Rust User Group, December 2025
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SFx-emI5r4
• Hacking AI Systems: How to (Still) Trick Artificial Intelligence • Katharine Jarmul • GOTO 2025
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz0L0rRV7RE
• When AI Agents Make Sense (And When They Don’t)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOpLKJYOvXs

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News

• Java News Roundup: Spring Vault, LangChain4j, Seed4J, Infinispan, Gradle
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/java-news-roundup-dec22-2025/

Articles

• Java at Microsoft: 2025 Year in Review
  https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/java-at-microsoft-2025-year-in-review/
• This Year in Spring – December 30th, 2025
  https://spring.io/blog/2025/12/30/this-year-in-spring-december-30th-2025
• The Adult in the Room: Why It’s Time to Move AI from Python Scripts to Java Systems
  https://www.the-main-thread.com/p/java-ai-production-python-systems
• Part 1: Tokenization, Building an LLM From Scratch in Rust – Tag1 Insights
  https://www.tag1.com/how-to/part1-tokenization-building-an-llm-from-scratch-in-rust/
• Stop Guessing, Start Improving: Using DORA Metrics and Process Behavior Charts
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/DORA-metrics-PBCs/
• Developers remain willing but reluctant to use AI: The 2025 Developer Survey results are here
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/12/29/developers-remain-willing-but-reluctant-to-use-ai-the-2025-developer-survey-results-are-here/
• The State Of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and Predictions
  https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/state-of-llms-2025
• 2026 AI trends: What leaders need to know to stay competitive
  https://www.imd.org/ibyimd/artificial-intelligence/2026-ai-trends-what-leaders-need-to-know-to-stay-competitive/
• 17 predictions for AI in 2026
  https://www.understandingai.org/p/17-predictions-for-ai-in-2026

Videos

• What you missed about Rust in 2025 – Rust Official blog recap
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ziyY7_Dw0
• Should you learn Rust in 2026? Watch 5 minutes of this video
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCi2Lr-awYI
• Rust’s hardest features explained
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RsgFFp67eo
• From Confusion to Clarity: Advanced Observability Strategies for Media Workflows at Netflix
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/stream-pipeline-observability/
• Your Codebase, Your Rules
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fZZz_gIE8A
• Your Prompts Aren’t the Problem—Your Context Is
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUy9dHuHM6s
• Fix SLO Breaches before They Repeat: an SRE AI Agent for Application Workloads
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/sre-java-agent/

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