News

• Java News Roundup: GraalVM Build Tools, EclipseLink, Spring Milestones, Open Liberty, Quarkus
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/java-news-roundup-mar23-2026/
• Helidon 4.4.0 Introduces Alignment with OpenJDK Cadence and Support via Java Verified Portfolio
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/helidon-4-4-released/
• Changes to WebAssembly targets and handling undefined symbols
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/04/04/changes-to-webassembly-targets-and-handling-undefined-symbols/
• Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models
  https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-4/

Articles

• LLM Knowledge Bases
  https://academy.dair.ai/blog/llm-knowledge-bases-karpathy
• Gemma 4: Expanding the Gemmaverse with Apache 2.0
  https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/03/gemma-4-expanding-the-gemmaverse-with-apache-20.html
• Beyond the Hype: Is AI taking the fun out of software development?
  https://blog.scottlogic.com/2026/04/01/beyond-the-hype-is-ai-taking-fun-out-of-software-development.html
• Why we’re rethinking cache for the AI era
  https://blog.cloudflare.com/rethinking-cache-ai-humans/
• AI benchmarks are broken. Here’s what we need instead.
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/31/1134833/ai-benchmarks-are-broken-heres-what-we-need-instead/
• Developer’s Guide to Building ADK Agents with Skills
  https://developers.googleblog.com/developers-guide-to-building-adk-agents-with-skills/

Videos

• Analyzing Crashed JVMs – Inside Java Newscast
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KO_JKy9fNA
• JDK 8 to 25 Without the Pain – Engineering a Modern Java Platform
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPLA472hkcs
• The API is the Platform • Shamasis Bhattacharya • GOTO 2025
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70hmVqBO1gI
• Are We Ready for the Next Cyber Security Crisis Like Log4shell?
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/cyber-security-log4shell/
• The Principal Engineer’s Path: Skills, Strategies, and Lessons Learned
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/principal-engineer-path/
• Reliable AI Agents Using Domain Modeling with Koog in Java
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg3BN36v-wQ
• Will AI Agents Make Bias Worse?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–WihC6AJOw

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