News

• Java News Roundup: Gradle 8.14, JBash Jash, Hibernate, Open Liberty, Spring Cloud Data Flow
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/java-news-roundup-apr21-2025/
• Spring News Roundup: RCs of Spring Boot, Data, Security, Auth, Session, Integration, Web Services
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/spring-news-roundup-apr21-2025/
• This Week in Spring – April 29th, 2025
  https://spring.io/blog/2025/04/29/this-week-in-spring-april-29th-2025
• Announcing Jipher: Java Cryptographic Service Provider for FIPS Environments
  https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/jipher-java-cryptographic-service-provider-for-fips-environments

Articles

• Strings Just Got Faster
  https://inside.java/2025/05/01/strings-just-got-faster/
• Fixrleak: Fixing Java Resource Leaks with GenAI
  https://www.uber.com/blog/fixrleak-fixing-java-resource-leaks-with-genai/
• Troubleshooting Rust Web Applications
  https://www.shuttle.dev/blog/2025/04/29/troubleshooting-rust-web-applications
• InfoQ Software Architecture and Design Trends Report – 2025
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecture-trends-2025/
• MCP Demo Day: How 10 leading AI companies built MCP servers on Cloudflare
  https://blog.cloudflare.com/mcp-demo-day/

Videos

• 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

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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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News

• Java News Roundup: Last of the JEPs Targeted to JDK 24, Quarkus 3.17, Maven 4.0-RC1, Kotlin 2.1
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/12/java-news-roundup-nov25-2024/
• This Week in Spring – December 3rd, 2024
  https://spring.io/blog/2024/12/03/this-week-in-spring-december-3rd-2024
• Launching the 2024 State of Rust Survey
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/12/05/annual-survey-2024-launch.html

Articles

• Audio Multimodality: Expanding AI Interaction with Spring AI and OpenAI
  https://spring.io/blog/2024/12/05/spring-ai-audio-modality
• Advent of Rust 🦀 2024
  https://www.rustfinity.com/advent-of-rust
• Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond
  https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/12/tech-predictions-for-2025-and-beyond.html
• 6 AI trends you’ll see more of in 2025
  https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/6-ai-trends-youll-see-more-of-in-2025/
• Accelerating the Next Wave of Nuclear to Power AI Innovation
  https://sustainability.atmeta.com/blog/2024/12/03/accelerating-the-next-wave-of-nuclear-to-power-ai-innovation/
• A Revolution in How Robots Learn
  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/02/a-revolution-in-how-robots-learn
• GenCast predicts weather and the risks of extreme conditions with state-of-the-art accuracy
  https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gencast-predicts-weather-and-the-risks-of-extreme-conditions-with-sota-accuracy/
• MarS: A unified financial market simulation engine in the era of generative foundation models
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/mars-a-unified-financial-market-simulation-engine-in-the-era-of-generative-foundation-models/

Videos

• Java 24 Language & API Changes – Inside Java Newscast
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yntTJjAS2YI
• The Deref Trait in Rust – Full Crash Rust Tutorial for Beginners
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g-UG0BC9A4
• 5 deadly Rust anti-patterns to avoid
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWwTD2neodE
• Evolving Your Architecture: Essential Steps and Tools for Modernization
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/architecture-modernization/
• Complexity is the Gotcha of Event-driven Architecture • David Boyne • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjPdHVMNfb0
• Stanford Seminar – Continual Safety Assurances for Learning-Enabled Robotic Systems
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeJ4x1EyIFM
• AI is not Designed for You
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lxk9NMeWHg
• Techniques for Optimizing Search in RAG Systems
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSyDodhNE-A
• The Balancing Act: AI & Regulation with Nicklas Lundblad
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWuumlduTRg

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