News
- Java News Roundup: GraalVM, Spring AI, JobRunr, GlassFish, Grails, Groovy, Quarkus Agent MCP
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/java-news-roundup-may04-2026/ - JEP 533 Tightens Exception Handling in Java’s Structured Concurrency for JDK 27
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/jep-533-jdk-27/ - This Week in Spring – May 12th, 2026
https://spring.io/blog/2026/05/12/this-week-in-spring-may-12-2026
Articles
- The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon, Cloudflare and Discord
https://kerkour.com/the-limits-of-rust - We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations—and it scaled
https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations - What Is Code?
https://martinfowler.com/articles/what-is-code.html - Lessons from Building a First-Pass AI PRD Reviewer at Uber
https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/first-pass-prd/ - Measuring the Self-Reported Impact of Early-2026 AI on Technical Worker Productivity
https://metr.org/blog/2026-05-11-ai-usage-survey/
Videos
- Caching for Agentic Java Systems: Internal, Distributed, and Semantic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPxMiaXToWs - Java Gets Post-Quantum TLS – Inside Java Newscast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCtD53xYyZ0 - Full Course: Modernize Java apps with AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_XiRAPq0mg - How Rust engineered the perfect async runtime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUg1y-yv6cs - Beyond Coding: How Senior ICs Grow Influence and Drive Impact
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/lessons-building-engineering-team/ - Beyond Code Coverage: Functionality Testing with Playwright MCP — Marlene Mhangami, Microsoft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWEInOtngmM - Agents Don’t Do Standups: Building the Post-Engineer Engineering Org — Mike Spitz, PFF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMemhtlsoNk - Building a Chess Coach — Anant Dole and Asbjorn Steinskog, Take Take Take
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlzpEGHNVKQ - Self-Training Agents: Hermes Agent, HF Traces, Skills, MCP & Finetuning — Merve Noyan, Hugging Face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV56RddyFuU - What I Learned Building Multi-Agent Systems from Scratch
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/multi-agent-system-lessons/ - Lessons from Trillion Token Deployments at Fortune 500s — Alessandro Cappelli, Adaptive ML
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6NShR2ccOg - What I Learned From Implementing LLM Architectures From Scratch (And How to Get Started)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXzQ7PGpO6w - Recursive Superintelligence: Why Self-Improving AI is the Next Frontier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMCBt-4b0Nc - Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | Jensen Huang from NVIDIA on the Compute Behind Intelligence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsQB0n0YV3k
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