Newsletter – Week 20, 2025

A Java Developer’s Guide to Navigating the Frontend Landscape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLgWfNnsDiM
Java for AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XnyJad88Ss
Shared-state Concurrency in Rust – Full Crash Rust Tutorial for Beginners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGkgwXQ-OwU
Understanding Rust – Or How to Stop Worrying & Love the Borrow-Checker • Steve Smith • YOW! 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfb1y8yn8QI
Internals of SlateDB — by Vignesh Chandramohan — Seattle Rust User Group, March 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqF_zFWqFYk
How to work better with Product, as an Engineer with Ebi Atawodi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4AGAeVe2Jw
Optimising our world with mathematical models – with Jane Hillston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJzeZ_UZVoM
Building Performant RAG Applications for Production • David Carlos Zachariae • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDWdkmvX91E
Yuval Noah Harari On the Future of Humanity, AI, and Information | The Big Interview | WIRED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WRI6HtUQj4
MIT 6.S191 (Comet ML): A Hipocratic Oath, for your AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyCUZAf8xSU

_{Header image by Katja S. Verhoeven from Pixabay}

Newsletter – Week 17, 2025

April 28, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 25 Schedule, Spring 7.0-M4, Payara Platform, JobRunr 7.5, Jox 1.0, Commonhaus
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/java-news-roundup-apr14-2025/
OpenJDK News Roundup: Compact Source, Module Import Declarations, Key Derivation, Scoped Values
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/jdk-news-roundup-apr14-2025/
This Week in Spring – April 22nd, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/04/22/this-week-in-spring-april-22nd-2025
DeepMind Researchers Propose Defense against LLM Prompt Injection
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/deepmind-camel-promt-injection/

Articles

What If We Could Rebuild Kafka From Scratch?
https://www.morling.dev/blog/what-if-we-could-rebuild-kafka-from-scratch/
Renovate to Innovate: Fundamentals of Transforming Legacy Architecture
https://www.infoq.com/articles/fundamentals-of-transforming-legacy-architecture/
Migrating Uber’s Compute Platform to Kubernetes: A Technical Journey
https://www.uber.com/blog/migrating-ubers-compute-platform-to-kubernetes-a-technical-journey/
Distributed Cloud Computing: Enhancing Privacy with AI-Driven Solutions
https://www.infoq.com/articles/distributed-cloud-privacy-ai/
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/artificial-intelligence
“Periodic table of machine learning” could fuel AI discovery
https://news.mit.edu/2025/machine-learning-periodic-table-could-fuel-ai-discovery-0423
Introducing Mobility AI: Advancing urban transportation
https://research.google/blog/introducing-mobility-ai-advancing-urban-transportation/

Videos

Devoxx Greece 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dj2RBBGJ68&list=PLRsbF2sD7JVrfxNj1g0OASrT-z9a8avIY
Where is the Java language going?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dY57CDxR14
How Netflix Uses Java – 2025 Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpunFFS-n8I
Rust Concurrency and Parallelism – Message Passing in Rust – Full Crash Rust Tutorial for Beginners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6KEp53J3rY
Rust + SQLite: Complete Tutorial (Schema, CRUD, JSON & Async)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlyXm7bwq6k
Essential Machine Learning and AI Concepts Animated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcbuKRNtCUc
Consciousness, Reasoning and the Philosophy of AI with Murray Shanahan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Py_hWcmkU

_{Header image by Jon_Michael from Pixabay}

Newsletter – Week 16, 2025

April 20, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: WildFly 36, Spring Milestones, Betas for Open Liberty, Hibernate, LangChain4j
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/java-news-roundup-apr07-2025/
This Week in Spring – April 15th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/04/15/this-week-in-spring-april-15th-2025
The AI Continent Action Plan
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/ai-continent-action-plan

Articles

Async file IO with Java and io_uring
https://foojay.io/today/async-file-io-with-java-and-io_uring/
How ZGC allocates memory for the Java heap
https://joelsiks.com/posts/zgc-heap-memory-allocation/
High-cardinality values for build flags in Rust
https://blog.frankel.ch/high-cardinality-values-build-flags-rust/
Prompt Engineering Techniques with Spring AI
https://spring.io/blog/2025/04/14/spring-ai-prompt-engineering-patterns
Spring AI with Docker Model Runner
https://spring.io/blog/2025/04/10/spring-ai-docker-model-runner
Avoiding memory fragmentation in Rust with jemalloc
https://kerkour.com/rust-jemalloc
6 retrieval augmented generation (RAG) techniques you should know
https://blog.logrocket.com/rag-techniques/
Becoming an AI engineering company
https://vercel.com/blog/becoming-an-ai-engineering-company
Why AI Demands a New Breed of Leaders
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/why-ai-demands-a-new-breed-of-leaders/
The Future of AI in Knowledge Work: Tools for Thought at CHI 2025
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/the-future-of-ai-in-knowledge-work-tools-for-thought-at-chi-2025/
A Google Gemini model now has a “dial” to adjust how much it reasons
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/17/1115375/a-google-gemini-model-now-has-a-dial-to-adjust-how-much-it-reasons/
Advancing Invoice Document Processing at Uber using GenAI
https://www.uber.com/blog/advancing-invoice-document-processing-using-genai

Video

Preparing for the Java 21 Certification (or Learning New Features)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SU3hd0NVXE
SQL, JSON, and Java
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8k9ZCrsphc
From RAG to Enterprise AI Agents: Building Intelligent Java Apps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf952FrReFg
Devnexus 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLuTRBHCDo8&list=PLid93BOrASLPwdAIvI07xih7atlb610oy
Rust Concurrency and Parallelism – Threads in Rust – Full Crash Rust Tutorial for Beginners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lvKmkspl1w
LLM and Generative AI for Sensitive Data – Navigating Security, Responsibility, and Pitfalls in Highly Regulated Industries
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/llm-ml-security/

_{Header image by Anne-Ed C. from Pixabay}

Newsletter – Week 15, 2025

April 13, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11 Web Profile, GlassFish, TornadoVM, Micronaut, JHipster, Applet API
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/java-news-roundup-mar31-2025/
This Week in Spring – April 8th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/04/08/this-week-in-spring-april-8th-2025
crates.io security incident: improperly stored session cookies
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/04/11/crates-io-security-session-cookies.html
Kafka 4.0: KRaft Simplifies Architecture
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/kafka-4-kraft-architecture/
Meta AI Releases Llama 4: Early Impressions and Community Feedback
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/meta-ai-llama-4/
Announcing the Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/

Articles

Deterministic simulation testing for async Rust
https://s2.dev/blog/dst
Building progressive web apps using Rust
https://blog.logrocket.com/building-progressive-web-apps-rust/
How to implement cryptographically-secure API keys in Rust
https://kerkour.com/api-keys
Practical recursion schemes in Rust: traversing and extending trees
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2025-04-10-rust-recursion-schemes/
Squeezing every millisecond: How we rebuilt the Datadog Lambda Extension in Rust
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/datadog-lambda-extension-rust/
Open-source AI: Are younger developers leading the way?
https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/04/07/open-source-ai-are-younger-developers-leading-the-way/
How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025
https://hbr.org/2025/04/how-people-are-really-using-gen-ai-in-2025
Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/11/1114914/generative-ai-is-learning-to-spy-for-the-us-military/

Videos

JavaOne’25 Highlights – Inside Java Newscast #89
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjcWGDC_RuE
Sequenced Collections – Deep Dive with the Expert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yuDqkkYTGU
AI 202: Next-Level AI Mastery for Java Developers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIyj_V8h8X0
Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFDBKkEUbE8&list=PLRsbF2sD7JVpZ3O01elefwrp9l4yBWoXu&pp=0gcJCV8EOCosWNin
Rust BLAKE3 – Hashing at Speed for Large Files & Web Tokens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-0KLCAEZgY
Teaching Rustlang (incl async deep dive) – your questions answered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FdQCIJXjgo
The Philosophy of Software Design – with John Ousterhout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz451zUlF-k
Practical GenAI: Building a Chatbot Using Spring AI • Rod Johnson • YOW! 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5xglswsXdg
The Next Breakthrough In AI Agents Is Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOYSDqJdiro
Is Human Data Enough? With David Silver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzXyPGEtseI
Responsible AI for FinTech
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-fintech-ethics/

_{Header image by will zhang from Pixabay}

Newsletter – Week 14, 2025

April 7, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11 and Spring AI Updates, WildFly 36 Beta, Infinispan, JNoSQL
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/java-news-roundup-mar24-2025/
This Week in Sprng – April 1st, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/04/01/this-week-in-spring-april-1st-2025
Announcing Rust 1.86.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/04/03/Rust-1.86.0.html

Articles

Six JDK 24 Features You Should Know About
https://foojay.io/today/six-jdk-24-features-you-should-know-about/
JavaOne 2025: Function and Memory Access in Pure Java
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/foreign-function-minborg/
Mutation Testing in Rust
https://blog.frankel.ch/mutation-testing-rust/
Architecting and building medium-sized web services in Rust with Axum, SQLx and PostgreSQL
https://kerkour.com/rust-web-services-axum-sqlx-postgresql
Getting started with Rust on Google Cloud
https://medium.com/google-cloud/getting-started-with-rust-on-google-cloud-ced48447ec91
Introduction to Monoio: A High-Performance Rust Runtime
https://chesedo.me/blog/monoio-introduction/
Towards fearless SIMD, 7 years later
https://linebender.org/blog/towards-fearless-simd/
Revenue Attribution Report: how we used homomorphic encryption to enhance privacy and cut network congestion by 99%
https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/data/how-we-used-homomorphic-encryption-to-enhance-privacy-and-cut-network-congestion
Beyond Chatbots: Architecting Domain-Specific Generative AI for Operational Decision-Making
https://www.infoq.com/articles/beyond-chatbots-domain-specific-genai/
The machines are rising — but developers still hold the keys
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/02/1114134/the-machines-are-rising-but-developers-still-hold-the-keys/
The evolution of graph learning
https://research.google/blog/the-evolution-of-graph-learning/
Evaluating progress of LLMs on scientific problem-solving
https://research.google/blog/evaluating-progress-of-llms-on-scientific-problem-solving/
Artificial intelligence and asset pricing: The power of transformers
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/artificial-intelligence-and-asset-pricing-power-transformers
Cyberattacks by AI agents are coming
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/04/1114228/cyberattacks-by-ai-agents-are-coming/
Taking a responsible path to AGI
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/taking-a-responsible-path-to-agi/

Videos

Java 24 Release Notes Overview – Security Update
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH7Vc9qXbFA
Stream Gatherers – Deep Dive with the Expert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5SKpfkI2U
Concerto for Java & AI – Building Production-Ready LLM Applications
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhILqEAscss
Devnexus 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7AqSBXUWII&list=PLid93BOrASLPwdAIvI07xih7atlb610oy
Voxxed Days Zürich 2025
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRsbF2sD7JVry6n9nhg9hATpz2T1JByqa
Bringing a Product Mindset to an Infrastructure Platform Team
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/product-mindset/
Organisational Sustainability with Platform Engineering • Lesley Cordero • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlUSMibsB18
Understanding Distributed Architectures – The Patterns Approach • Unmesh Joshi • YOW! 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7hJ1BHa5Oo

_{Header image by chrismohring from Pixabay}

Newsletter – Week 13, 2025

March 31, 2025March 31, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 24, GraalVM for JDK 24, Payara Platform, Kafka 4.0, Spring CVEs, JavaOne 2025
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/java-news-roundup-mar17-2025/
Spring News Roundup: Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Auth Server, GraphQL, Integration, AMQP
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/spring-news-roundup-mar17-2025/
This Week in Spring – March 25th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/03/25/this-week-in-spring-march-25th-2025
Adopting the FLS
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/03/26/adopting-the-fls.html
Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model
https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-model-thinking-updates-march-2025/

Articles

Let’s Take a Look at… JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking!
https://www.morling.dev/blog/jep-483-aot-class-loading-linking/
Clean your Memory: From Finalize to Cleaner
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-cleaner/
Fastrace: A Modern Approach to Distributed Tracing in Rust
https://fast.github.io/blog/fastrace-a-modern-approach-to-distributed-tracing-in-rust/
Applying Flow Metrics to Design Resilient Microservices
https://www.infoq.com/articles/flow-metrics-microservices/
Exploring Generative AI
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai.html
When to Use GenAI Versus Predictive AI
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/when-to-use-genai-versus-predictive-ai/
The first trial of generative AI therapy shows it might help with depression
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/28/1114001/the-first-trial-of-generative-ai-therapy-shows-it-might-help-with-depression/
The evolution of graph learning
https://research.google/blog/the-evolution-of-graph-learning/

Videos

Java 24 Release Notes Overview for Operations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODSRbi0saHo
Stable Values in Java 25 – Inside Java Newscast #88
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ynXgMrP8M
Bootiful Spring Boot: A DOGumentary • Josh Long • YOW! 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMPf373dzvM
Concerto for Java & AI – Building Production-Ready LLM Apps • Thomas Vitale • YOW! 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2wklq9Rtcc
Microsoft is using AI to convert code to Rust…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R51lAC_n_lw
The C4 Model – Misconceptions, Misuses & Mistakes • Simon Brown • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gc5pN9sGzw
How GitHub Copilot Serves 400 Million Completion Requests a Day
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/github-copilot/
How Open-Sora 2.0 Built Sora-Level Video AI for $200K (Full Breakdown)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMdvyGVICfA

Newsletter – Week 12, 2025

March 23, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java 24 Delivers New Experimental and Many Final Features
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/java24-released/
Java News Roundup: Jakarta NoSQL 1.0, Spring 7.0-M3, Maven 4.0-RC3, LangChain4j 1.0-beta2
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/java-news-roundup-mar10-2025/
This Week in Spring – March 18th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/03/18/this-week-in-spring-march-18th-2025
Announcing Rust 1.85.1
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/03/18/Rust-1.85.1.html

Articles

Java 24 : What’s New?
https://foojay.io/today/java-24-whats-new/
The Arrival of Java 24
https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/the-arrival-of-java-24
Performance Improvements in JDK 24
https://inside.java/2025/03/19/performance-improvements-in-jdk24/
Project Leyden Ships Third Option for Faster Application Start with JEP 483 in Java 24
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/java-24-leyden-ships/
Java 24 Rolls Out Today! Find Out Why It’s Aptly Named
https://foojay.io/today/java-24-rolls-out-today-find-out-why-its-aptly-named/
Java 24 and IntelliJ IDEA
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2025/03/java-24-and-intellij-idea/
A 10x faster batch job by batching PostgreSQL inserts/updates with Rust and SQLx
https://kerkour.com/postgresql-batching
Rust CUDA project update
https://rust-gpu.github.io/blog/2025/03/18/rust-cuda-update/
Extending Future in Rust
https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/extending-future-in-rust/
Transition Systems in Rust
https://minikin.me/blog/transition-systems-in-rust
AI Trends Disrupting Software Teams
https://www.infoq.com/articles/ai-trends-disrupting-software-teams/
Beyond words: AI goes multimodal to meet you where you are
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/beyond-words-ai-goes-multimodal-to-meet-you-where-you-are/
Deciphering language processing in the human brain through LLM representations
https://research.google/blog/deciphering-language-processing-in-the-human-brain-through-llm-representations/
Loss of Pulse Detection on the Google Pixel Watch 3
https://research.google/blog/loss-of-pulse-detection-on-the-google-pixel-watch-3/

Videos

What’s New in Java 24 in 2 Minutes… More or Less – Sip of Java
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDVuQM4HMSc
Java Turns 30 – Live from JavaOne 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwR7Gvi80Xo
Rebuilding Prime Video UI with Rust and WebAssembly
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/prime-video-rust/
Building Your First Platform Team in a Fast Growing Startup
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/platform-engineering-strategy/
ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNZnLkRBYA8
30 Machine Learning Facts Most People Get Wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEpEEQVGYyQ
DeepSeek’s FlashMLA Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTNW3SLP8W8

_{Header image by Lefteris Valsamis from Pixabay}

Newsletter – Week 11, 2025

March 16, 2025March 16, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Quarkus 3.19 Prepares for LTS Release 3.20
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/quarkus-3-19/
This Week in Spring – March 11th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/03/11/this-week-in-spring-march-11th-2025

Articles

The Gatherer API
https://dev.java/learn/api/streams/gatherers/
Null Safety in Spring applications with JSpecify and NullAway
https://spring.io/blog/2025/03/10/null-safety-in-spring-apps-with-jspecify-and-null-away
When are Rust’s const fns executed?
https://felixwrt.dev/posts/const-fn/
Checklist for Kubernetes in Production: Best Practices for SREs
https://www.infoq.com/articles/checklist-kubernetes-production/
How Gen AI Could Change the Value of Expertise
https://hbr.org/2025/03/how-gen-ai-could-change-the-value-of-expertise
Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-brings-ai-into-the-physical-world/

Videos

Java 24 Release Notes Review for Developers – Inside Java Newscast #87
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV7VAWRlEW0
Virtual Threads optimal anwenden in Java 23 | JAX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wk3wtHJvPU
A Walk Along the Complexity-performance Curve
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/java-string-performance/
C++ is losing to Rust (C++ creator calls for help)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrIzHCKcS_g
Rust is the New C
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-nauaCkgo
What’s up with Rust? • Tim McNamara • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pppU–kHLP0
Developer Experience at Uber with Gautam Korlam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSrx9y7npyg

_{Header image by Sven Lachmann from Pixabay}

Software Engineering Blog

Think . Research . Share

AI