Newsletter – Week 09, 2025

March 3, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: NetBeans 25, Payara Platform, Hibernate Reactive, Gradle
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/02/java-news-roundup-feb17-2025/
Spring News Roundup: Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Auth Server, Integration, AI and AMQP
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/02/spring-news-roundup-feb17-2025/

Articles

Introduction to MockMvcTester
https://www.petrikainulainen.net/programming/testing/introduction-to-mockmvctester/
Rust edition 2024 annotated
https://bertptrs.nl/2025/02/23/rust-edition-2024-annotated.html
Embracing Reactive Programming Using Queues
https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/embracing-reactive-programming-using-kafka-webflux-0e707d1c9e9b
Evaluating the evaluators: know your RAG metrics
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2025-02-27-rag-evaluation/
The State of Machine Learning Competitions
https://mlcontests.com/state-of-machine-learning-competitions-2024/

Videos

Scoped Values in Java 24 – Inside Java Newscast #86
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tfUJLUbZiM
Java 24 – Better Language, Better APIs, Better Runtime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NTyzL-9Bfo
Rust’s 2024 edition is finally here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4-jSupvBFs
Rust in 2025 – with Marco ieni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWqwZ8-Dr7w
Rust Nation UK 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmtykJT1acM&list=PL1AoGvxomykSSFFL4Qav3wKzL-dsi9I5L
Microservices, Where Did It All Go Wrong • Ian Cooper • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2AQ9eTZ3-0
Adaptive Architectures – Building API Layers that Build Themselves • Marty Pitt • YOW! 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bO2O999q44
A Zero Trust Future for Applications: Practical Implementation and Pitfalls
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/zero-trust-devsecops/
How I use LLMs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWvNQjAaOHw
AI Interfaces Of The Future | Design Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBhSfROq3wU
AI in Healthcare Series: State of Gen AI in Healthcare, Troy Tazbaz Former Head Digital Health FDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v44pVYj-ciw

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Newsletter – Week 08, 2025

February 23, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 24-RC1, JDK Mission Control, Spring, Hibernate, Vert.x, JHipster, Gradle
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/02/java-news-roundup-feb10-2025/
This Week in Spring – February 18th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/02/18/this-week-in-spring-february-18th-2025
Announcing Rust 1.85.0 and Rust 2024
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/02/20/Rust-1.85.0.html
OpenAI Cancels o3 Release and Announces Roadmap for GPT 4.5, 5
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/02/openai-new-gpts/

Articles

Achieving relentless Kafka reliability at scale with the Streaming Platform
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/streaming-platform-kafka-custom-abstractions/
Grab AI Gateway: Connecting Grabbers to Multiple GenAI Providers
https://engineering.grab.com/grab-ai-gateway
Exploring Generative AI
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai.html
How a Software Architect Uses Artificial Intelligence in His Daily Work
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/02/software-architect-AI-LLM/
Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist
https://research.google/blog/accelerating-scientific-breakthroughs-with-an-ai-co-scientist/

Videos

Project Loom and Virtual Threads: Next Phases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13EtTQbfW_E
Build a Real-time Rust Websocket Server for Data Analytics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQbhuT6LKdA
GraphQL Federation – The @key to Your Platform API Strategy • Derek Kuc • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrA543HT3bA
The Efficiency Paradox: How to Save Yourself & the World • Holly Cummins • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU_WHead0oY
The Art of Embracing Failures with Serverless Architectures
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/serverless-failure-aws/
Developer productivity with Nicole Forsgren (the creator of DORA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WufjP_WRnPM
How to Properly Leverage AI for Research (Using AI for Writing 1/3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ft6BIlZAGM
The Right Way to Use AI for Writing Drafts (Using AI for Writing 2/3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0baWlX3hXU
Editing with AI: How ChatGPT Enhances Your Writings (Using AI for Writing 3/3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkTNRhYZ_PY

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Newsletter – Week 07, 2025

February 18, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

JDK 24 and JDK 25: What We Know So Far
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/02/java-24-so-far/
Java News Roundup: LangChain4j 1.0-Beta1, JHipster Lite, GlassFish, Spring Cloud Stream Applications
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/02/java-news-roundup-feb03-2025/
Micronaut Framework 4.7.0 Provides Integration with LangChain4j and Graal Languages
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/02/micronaut-langchain4j/
This Week in Spring – February 11th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/02/11/this-week-in-spring-february-11th-2025

Articles

Introducing the Model Context Protocol Java SDK
https://spring.io/blog/2025/02/14/mcp-java-sdk-released-2
A survey of every iterator variant
https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/a-survey-of-every-iterator-variant
Updating a large codebase to Rust 2024
https://codeandbitters.com/rust-2024-upgrade/
Climate change and machine learning — the good, bad, and unknown
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/climate-change-and-machine-learning-good-bad-and-unknown
Building Trust in AI: Security and Risks in Highly Regulated Industries
https://www.infoq.com/articles/building-trust-ai/

Videos

Java Resists Quantum Attacks – Inside Java Newscast #85
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k23rwIdJas
Garbage Collection in Java – The progress since JDK 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L68zxvl2LPY
A new tool for visualizing Rust lifetimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV6Xo_el_2o
Rust for Linux
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6507-rust-for-linux/
Leveraging Open-source LLMs for Production
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/open-source-llm/
How LLMs Are Changing Every Job (And What You Can Do About It)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iHJGTlyDqc

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Newsletter – Week 06, 2025

February 11, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Java Operator SDK 5.0, Open Liberty, Quarkus MCP, Vert.x, JBang, TornadoVM
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/02/java-news-roundup-jan27-2025/
OpenEuroLLM: Europe’s New Initiative for Open-Source AI Development
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/02/open-euro-llm/
OpenAI Launches Deep Research: Advancing AI-Assisted Investigation
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/02/deep-research-openai/

Articles

Computed Properties in Rust
https://minikin.me/blog/computed-properties-in-rust
European AI alliance unveils LLM alternative to Silicon Valley and DeepSeek
https://thenextweb.com/news/european-ai-alliance-openeurollm-challenges-us-china
International AI Safety Report 2025
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-ai-safety-report-2025

Videos

Modern Java Deep Dive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4qsidg261E
Zero Waste, Radical Magic, and Italian Graft – Quarkus Efficiency Secrets
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/quarkus-efficiency/
Unveiling the Tech Underpinning FinTech’s Revolution
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/advice-architecture/
The future of software development: LLM Developers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbLJuxSqEN0
22 Machine Learning Projects That Will Make You A God At Data Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlbyGPVaRSE
The Engineering Unlocks Behind DeepSeek | YC Decoded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tmn-XP93m4
Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI
AI Engineering with Chip Huyen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98o_L3jlixw
Real Agents vs. Workflows: The Truth Behind AI ‘Agents’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQxr-uOxw2o
Stanford Webinar – Agentic AI: A Progression of Language Model Usage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJLiOGle3Lw

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Newsletter – Week 05, 2025

February 3, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Stable Values, Payara Platform, Oracle Critical Patch Update, GraalVM, BellSoft
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/01/java-news-roundup-jan20-2025/
This Week in Spring – January 28th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/01/28/this-week-in-spring-january-28th-2025
Spring News Roundup: Milestone Releases of Boot, Framework, Data, Security, Integration, Modulith
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/01/spring-news-roundup-jan20-2025/
Announcing Rust 1.84.1
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/01/30/Rust-1.84.1.html
JetBrains AI Coding Agent Junie Provides Tight Integration with JetBrains IDEs
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/01/jetbrains-junie-agent/

Articles

Quality Outreach Heads-up – JDK 24: Remote Debugging with jstat and jhsdb Is Deprecated for Removal
https://inside.java/2025/01/31/quality-heads-up/
Evolution of Java Ecosystem for Integrating AI
https://inside.java/2025/01/29/evolution-of-java-ecosystem-for-integrating-ai/
Emerging Patterns in Building GenAI Products
https://martinfowler.com/articles/gen-ai-patterns/
How DeepSeek ripped up the AI playbook—and why everyone’s going to follow its lead
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/31/1110740/how-deepseek-ripped-up-the-ai-playbook-and-why-everyones-going-to-follow-it/
How we estimate the risk from prompt injection attacks on AI systems
https://security.googleblog.com/2025/01/how-we-estimate-risk-from-prompt.html

Videos

Java Language Evolution in 2025 – Inside Java Newscast #84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPzle3EN4CM
Reducing Developer Overload: Offloading Auth, Policy, and Resilience to the Platform
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/developer-overload/
7 Reasons Why Learning LLMs is No Longer Optional
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv0jRqYGFLg
What is Cache Augmented Generation (CAG) – CAG vs RAG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-rEACwLIqE

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Newsletter – Week 04, 2025

January 27, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 24 in Rampdown Phase Two, Spring Framework, JobRunr, Commonhaus Foundation
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/01/java-news-roundup-jan13-2025/
This Week in Spring – January 21st, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/01/21/this-week-in-spring-january-21st-2025
DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepSeek-V3, a 671B Parameter Mixture of Experts LLM
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/01/deepseek-v3-llm/
Google Releases Experimental AI Reasoning Model
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/01/google-deepmind-gemini/

Articles

How JVM handles exceptions
https://foojay.io/today/how-jvm-handles-exceptions/
Building Effective Agents with Spring AI (Part 1)
https://spring.io/blog/2025/01/21/spring-ai-agentic-patterns
Using Hugging Face Models With Spring AI and Ollama
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-ai-ollama-hugging-face-models
Rust is Not a Functional Language
https://serokell.io/blog/rust-is-not-a-functional-language
Comparing Rust Actor Libraries: Actix, Coerce, Kameo, Ractor, and Xtra
https://theari.dev/blog/comparing-rust-actor-libraries/
Comparing 13 Rust Crates for Extracting Text from HTML
https://emschwartz.me/comparing-13-rust-crates-for-extracting-text-from-html/
Streaming Audio Apis: The Axum Server
https://xd009642.github.io/2025/01/20/streaming-audio-APIs-the-axum-server.html
Interview with passionate Rust Developer Radu Marias(Xorio42)
https://blog.rust.careers/post/radu_interview/
JSON Web Keys (JWK): Rotating Cryptographic Keys at Zalando
https://engineering.zalando.com/posts/2025/01/automated-json-web-key-rotation.html
AI Agents
https://www.bcg.com/capabilities/artificial-intelligence/ai-agents
5 ways AI is transforming healthcare
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/01/ai-transforming-global-health/

Videos

Java Performance Update
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXv2-lN5Xgk
A Deep Dive into the Past, Present & Future of OAuth • Aaron Parecki • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL38YBogo2Y
Is your data ready for AI?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ec0tgdpDEU
Why Most Machine Learning Projects Fail to Reach Production and How to Beat the Odds
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ml-pitfalls/

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Newsletter – Week 03, 2025

January 20, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: WildFly 35, Jakarta EE 11 Update, Java Operator SDK 5.0-RC1
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/01/java-news-roundup-jan06-2025/
This Week in Spring – January 14th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/01/14/this-week-in-spring-january-14th-2025
This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.85
https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2025/01/17/this-development-cycle-in-cargo-1.85.html

Articles

Parallel processing with Virtual Threads – A comparative analysis
https://www.dhaval-shah.com/parallel-processing-virtual-threads-reactor-vs-jdk/
Concurrent and parallel future execution in Rust
https://heikoseeberger.de/2025-01-15-concurrent-parallel-futures/
AI Strategy
https://www.uspto.gov/initiatives/artificial-intelligence/ai-strategy
AI Talent Report
https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2025/01/14/ai-talent-report/
Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact
https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117
MatterGen: A new paradigm of materials design with generative AI
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/mattergen-a-new-paradigm-of-materials-design-with-generative-ai/
Common pitfalls when building generative AI applications
https://huyenchip.com/2025/01/16/ai-engineering-pitfalls.html

Videos

Java’s Plans for 2025 – Inside Java Newscast #83
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y26XGt8d_kI
Breaking Rust’s memory safety with 1 line of code
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGERkwG0ViI
The Rise of Rust & Web Assembly – Rust In The News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFHL_LASnYo
Adding concurrency to our CLI with Rust and Futures!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtsjfyW0PaU
AlphaXiv – a great place to discuss ML papers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kwlqd1mXv0
AI Reality VS Speculation with Google Machine Learning Engineer Jiquan Ngiam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKJsjKivhdE
Is AI Sustainable? Exploring Its Energy Demands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4YqlWYwxtE

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Newsletter – Week 02, 2025

January 13, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: GlassFish, Spring AI MCP, Grails, Helidon, JReleaser, Resilience4j, Arquillian
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/01/java-news-roundup-dec30-2024/
This Week in Spring – January 7th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/01/07/this-week-in-spring-january-7th-2025
Hello DCO, Goodbye CLA: Simplifying Contributions to Spring
https://spring.io/blog/2025/01/06/hello-dco-goodbye-cla-simplifying-contributions-to-spring
Jakarta EE Working Group Delivers Core Profile for Jakarta EE 11
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/01/jakarta-ee-11-core-profile/
Announcing Rust 1.84.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/01/09/Rust-1.84.0.html

Articles

Building an arXiv Agent with Rig & Rust
https://www.shuttle.dev/blog/2025/01/08/arxiv-rig-rust
Great things about Rust that aren’t just performance
https://ntietz.com/blog/great-things-about-rust-beyond-perf/
Rust In Space! How Rust is powering next-generation space mission simulators
https://www.howtocodeit.com/articles/rust-in-space
You do not need multithreading to do more than one thing at a time
https://sander.saares.eu/2024/12/31/you-do-not-need-multithreading-to-do-more-than-one-thing-at-a-time/
Seven steps to prepare your network for AI
https://www.blog.adtran.com/en/seven-steps-to-prepare-your-network-for-ai
What’s next for AI in 2025
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/08/1109188/whats-next-for-ai-in-2025/
Agents
https://huyenchip.com/2025/01/07/agents.html

Videos

A Deep Dive into JVM Start-Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED1oc7gn5uY
Rust Bacon – Next Gen Cargo Watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVsF9N-Uarg
Comprehending Proc Macros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMCRQj9Hbx8
Cost vs Stability in a Cloud Environment • Cat Swetel • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhpPV6MYJek
GenAI Essentials – Full Course for Beginners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ25yl34Uqw
Pruning and Distillation Best Practices: The Minitron Approach Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJs-8IDHJ3w
APIs 101: From Concept to Deployment for AI Engineers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5atR70lV1fs
The RAG Really Ties the App Together • Jeff Vestal • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIGIQZmwcqo

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Newsletter – Week 01, 2025

January 6, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Spring AI 1.0-M5, LangChain4j 1.0-Alpha1, Grails 7.0-M1, JHipster 8.8
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/12/java-news-roundup-dec23-2024/

Articles

Peaceful and Bright Future of Integrity by Default in Java
https://inside.java/2025/01/03/evolving-default-integrity/
This Year in Spring – December 31st, 2024
https://spring.io/blog/2024/12/31/this-week-in-spring-december-31st-2024
2024 in Review: Rust Foundation Annual Report Preview
https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/rust-foundation-in-review-2024-annual-report-preview/
In Rust we trust? White House Office urges memory safety
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/30/in-rust-we-trust-white-house-office-urges-memory-safety/
MIT SMR’s 10 AI Must-Reads for 2024
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/mit-smrs-10-ai-must-reads-for-2024/
Developers want more, more, more: the 2024 results from Stack Overflow’s Annual Developer Survey
https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/01/01/developers-want-more-more-more-the-2024-results-from-stack-overflow-s-annual-developer-survey/
25 experts predict how AI will change business and life in 2025
https://www.fastcompany.com/91254053/25-experts-predict-how-ai-will-change-business-and-life-in-2025

Videos

The Marvelous Magic of Multimodal AI • Alex Castrounis • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYyiczbpzHk

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Newsletter – Week 52, 2024

December 29, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: TomEE 10, Struts 7, Payara Platform, GlassFish, Commonhaus Foundation, Gradle
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/12/java-news-roundup-dec16-2024/
Spring News Roundup: Delivering Point Releases of Boot, Security, Authorization Server, Session
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/12/spring-news-roundup-dec16-2024/
OpenAI Announces ‘o3’ Reasoning Model
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/12/openai-announces-o3/

Articles

Dropping Hyper
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/21/dropping-hyper/
A Review of Rust in 2024: What Next?
https://barretts.club/posts/rust_review_2024/
You should keep a developer’s journal
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/24/you-should-keep-a-developer-s-journal/
Gemini 2.0: Level Up Your Apps with Real-Time Multimodal Interactions
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-0-level-up-your-apps-with-real-time-multimodal-interactions/

Videos

James Gosling on Java – Historical Oddities & Persistent Itches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg8xM0xxFa8
Reliable software: An interview with Jon Gjengset
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmDkKnWK9fY
Building a Domain Specific GenAI Chatbot with Serverless • Eric Johnson • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhxcZaiPsyo
Fine-Tuning LLMs for RAG: Boost Model Performance and Accuracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWTSImmqcvQ

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