Newsletter – Week 50, 2025

December 14, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 26 in Rampdown, JDK 27 Expert Group, GlassFish, TornadoVM, Spring gRPC
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/java-news-roundup-dec01-2025/
This Week in Spring – December 9th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/12/09/this-week-in-spring-december-9th-2025
Announcing Rust 1.92.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/11/Rust-1.92.0/

Articles

On the Boundaries of Final
https://norlinder.nu/posts/On-the-Boundaries-of-Final/
Fray Detects Concurrency Issues in JVM Languages
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/fray-detects-concurrency-issues/
InfoQ Java Trends Report 2025
https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-trends-report-2025/
Rust unit testing: file writing
https://jorgeortiz.dev/posts/rust_unit_testing_file_writing/
Rust unit testing: buffered file reading
https://jorgeortiz.dev/posts/rust_unit_testing_file_buf_reading/
From Batch to Streaming: Accelerating Data Freshness in Uber’s Data Lake
https://www.uber.com/blog/from-batch-to-streaming-accelerating-data-freshness-in-ubers-data-lake/
Blazing Fast OLAP on Uber’s Inventory and Catalog Data with Apache Pinot™
https://www.uber.com/blog/blazing-fast-olap-on-ubers-inventory-and-catalog-data-with-apache-pinot/
Design Patterns for Long-Term Memory in LLM-Powered Architectures
https://serokell.io/blog/design-patterns-for-long-term-memory-in-llm-powered-architectures
A differentially private framework for gaining insights into AI chatbot use
https://research.google/blog/a-differentially-private-framework-for-gaining-insights-into-ai-chatbot-use/
Machine-learning model improves liver transplant decision-making
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/11/machine-learning-model-liver-transplants-research

Videos

There is a missing tool in your Java data structure toolkit – DataFrames!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5rn3IH9LjA
Modern Bytecode Instrumentation with ByteBuddy – Rafael Winterhalter | The Marco Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzfhxgkBL9s
Why Rust is coming to the Linux kernel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enUkMK5JQY8
Rust is now a core part of the Linux Kernel (Officially!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8a2alQPw3Y
Securing AI Assistants: Strategies and Practices for Protecting Data
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/securing-ai-assistants/
When off-the-shelf AI won’t cut it: the real deal on model customization | Amazon Web Services
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHzxpPD0ekM
The arrival of AGI | Shane Legg (co-founder of DeepMind)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3u_FAv33G0
Google DeepMind robotics lab tour with Hannah Fry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UALxgn1MnZo

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Newsletter – Week 45, 2025

November 10, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs for JDK 26, Spring RCs, Quarkus, JReleaser, Seed4J, Gradle
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/java-news-roundup-oct27-2025/
This Week in Spring – November 4th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/11/04/this-week-in-spring-november-4th-2025
Grails 7.0, Now under the Apache Software Foundation, Delivers Enhancements for Micronaut and GORM
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/grails-7-released/

Articles

Create Self-Improving AI Agents Using Spring AI Recursive Advisors
https://spring.io/blog/2025/11/04/spring-ai-recursive-advisors
Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust
https://corrode.dev/blog/defensive-programming/
Neural Networks with Candle
https://pranitha.dev/posts/neural-networks-with-candle/
Rust is eating the world: From embedded firmware to cross-platform applications, databases and big servers
https://kerkour.com/rust-is-eating-the-world
Announcing Magika 1.0: now faster, smarter, and rebuilt in Rust
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/11/announcing-magika-10-now-faster-smarter.html
“You Don’t Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres” Considered Harmful
https://www.morling.dev/blog/you-dont-need-kafka-just-use-postgres-considered-harmful/
Replication redefined: How we built a low-latency, multi-tenant data replication platform
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/cdc-replication-search/
A History of Large Language Models
https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2025/10/01/large-language-models/
101 gen AI use cases with technical blueprints
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/real-world-gen-ai-use-cases-with-technical-blueprints

Videos

Try the New Valhalla EA Build – Inside Java Newscast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eua3nTkye2Y
Integrity by Default
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTPRTkny7kQ
Supercharge your JVM Performance with Project Leyden and Spring Boot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izLzgnMMjbU
Java and AI for Beginners – Full Series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPlJf5DA5So
Serialization 2 0: A Marshalling Update!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F89sNgG9dRY
Idiomatic Rust in Simple Steps
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW2L8KbM0O7aRi_Bt4YE1JuW9EdMs0ztR
GenAI Grows Up: Building Production-Ready Agents on the JVM • Rod Johnson • GOTO 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMDw0nlWd7s
Achieving Precision in AI: Retrieving the Right Data Using AI Agents
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-precision-rag-agents/
From Swift to Mojo and high-performance AI Engineering with Chris Lattner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxp3131i1yE
The most normal car on the road? Waymo with Vincent Vanhoucke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t2pMtJGv6k

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Newsletter – Week 44, 2025

November 7, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Oracle Critical Patch Update, BellSoft, Grails, Hazelcast, Langchain4j
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/10/java-news-roundup-oct20-2025/
Spring News Roundup: First Release Candidates of Boot, Security, GraphQL, Integration, Modulith
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/10/spring-news-roundup-oct20-2025/
This Week in Spring – October 28th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/10/28/this-week-in-spring-october-28th-2025
Announcing Rust 1.91.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/10/30/Rust-1.91.0/

Articles

Modularizing Spring Boot
https://spring.io/blog/2025/10/28/modularizing-spring-boot
Quality Outreach Heads-up – JDK 26: HTTP/3 Support Available in HTTP Client API
https://inside.java/2025/10/30/quality-heads-up/
Java and AI for Beginners: a practical video series for Java
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/java-and-ai-for-beginners-a-practical-video-series-for-java/
Introducing Spring AI Agents and Spring AI Bench
https://spring.io/blog/2025/10/28/agents-and-benchmarks
Building a RAG Application with Spring Boot, Spring AI, MongoDB Atlas Vector Search, and OpenAI
https://www.infoq.com/articles/rag-with-spring-mongo-open-ai/
How Signal uses Rust to secure the communications of millions of people
https://kerkour.com/signal-app-rust
Introducing Apache Fory™ Rust: A Versatile Serialization Framework for the Modern Age
https://fory.apache.org/blog/fory_rust_versatile_serialization_framework/
Data Analysis in Rust
https://ericfecteau.ca/data/rust-data-analysis/index.html
Continuous Performance Testing: staying fast
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2025-10-30-continuous-performance-testing/
Beyond Accidental Quality: Finding Hidden Bugs with Generative Testing
https://www.infoq.com/articles/generative-testing/
The Architectural Shift: AI Agents Become Execution Engines While Backends Retreat to Governance
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/10/ai-agent-orchestration/
The Real Limits of AI Agents in 2025
https://serokell.io/blog/the-real-limits-of-ai-agents-in-2025
StreetReaderAI: Towards making street view accessible via context-aware multimodal AI
https://research.google/blog/streetreaderai-towards-making-street-view-accessible-via-context-aware-multimodal-ai/

Videos

Value Classes Heap Flattening – What to expect from JEP 401
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF4CpL_EWFI
A Quick Start to Rust Lang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTXtdbt1PFA
Mechanical Sympathy in Rust Performance Optimization — by Brian Pane — Seattle Rust, October 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xe9vQL0ZBY

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Newsletter – Week 40, 2025

October 5, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: New JEPs, Liberica NIK, Spring AI Milestone, Open Liberty, JobRunr, LangChain4j
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/09/java-news-roundup-sep22-2025/
This Week in Spring: September 30th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/09/30/this-week-in-spring-september-30th-2025
Google’s Agent Development Kit for Java Adds Integration with LangChain4j
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/09/goodle-adk-langchain4j/

Articles

Microsoft’s OpenJDK builds now ready for Java 25
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/microsofts-openjdk-builds-now-ready-for-java-25/
The state of HTTP clients in Spring
https://spring.io/blog/2025/09/30/the-state-of-http-clients-in-spring
Securing MCP Servers with Spring AI
https://spring.io/blog/2025/09/30/spring-ai-mcp-server-security
Bringing AI Inference to Java with ONNX: a Practical Guide for Enterprise Architects
https://www.infoq.com/articles/onnx-ai-inference-with-java/
This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.90
https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2025/10/01/this-development-cycle-in-cargo-1.90/
The best way to structure Rust web services
https://blog.logrocket.com/best-way-structure-rust-web-services/
Case Study: How Proton uses Rust to build secure cross-platform applications for millions of people
https://kerkour.com/proton-apps-rust
Building agents with the Claude Agent SDK
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-agents-with-the-claude-agent-sdk
A collaborative approach to image generation
https://research.google/blog/a-collaborative-approach-to-image-generation/
The anatomy of a personal health agent
https://research.google/blog/the-anatomy-of-a-personal-health-agent/

Videos

Amber & Valhalla – Incremental Design and Feature Arcs – Inside Java Podcast 40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guuOLbgO-U0
Cloud Native JVMs, parts I and II: Fleet Profiling and Optimization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBmDm6N2PeE
Voxxed Days Crete 2025
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRsbF2sD7JVqG1GRbL7KeFscgt72uLmgI
Rust Closures: Writing efficient code is easy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqFk2twicdA
Rust in Paris 2025
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiOc9_WF8i8vVy5Qn6I9TxkBjsofzLcaH
Stanford CS230: Deep Learning I Autumn 2025
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rNRRGdS0rBbXOUGA0wjdh1X
Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFeb3yAxtjE

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Newsletter – Week 39, 2025

September 29, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 25, GraalVM for JDK 25, OpenJDK JEPs, LangChain4j, JBang, Gradle
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/09/java-news-roundup-sep15-2025/
This Week in Spring – September 23rd, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/09/23/this-week-in-spring-september-23rd-2025
Spring News Roundup: Third Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, GraphQL, Integration, Modulith
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/09/spring-news-roundup-sep15-2025/
crates.io: Malicious crates faster_log and async_println
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/24/crates.io-malicious-crates-fasterlog-and-asyncprintln/

Articles

JEPs in JDK 25 integrated since JDK 21
https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/25/jeps-since-jdk-21
HTTP Service Client Enhancements
https://spring.io/blog/2025/09/23/http-service-client-enhancements
Rust unit testing: builtin tools
https://jorgeortiz.dev/posts/rust_unit_testing_tools_builtin/
Pandas vs Polars: Which Data Processor Runs Faster
https://www.shuttle.dev/blog/2025/09/24/pandas-vs-polars
How to Monitor Data Pipelines in Rust Using OpenTelemetry and Shuttle
https://www.shuttle.dev/blog/2025/09/23/monitor-data-pipelines-in-rust
Cloudflare just got faster and more secure, powered by Rust
https://blog.cloudflare.com/20-percent-internet-upgrade/
Implementing automatic TLS for Pingoo: here is what it takes to build a secure internet
https://kerkour.com/pingoo-automatic-tls
Unlocking MCP in JetBrains: How Copilot Uses Sampling, Prompts, Resources, and Elicitation
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/unlocking-mcp-in-jetbrains-how-copilot-uses-sampling-prompts-resources-and-elicitation/
InfoQ AI, ML and Data Engineering Trends Report – 2025
https://www.infoq.com/articles/ai-ml-data-engineering-trends-2025/
High growth startups: Uber and CloudKitchens with Charles-Axel Dein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM0Wq7aLd5w
Advancing Responsible AI Innovation: A Playbook
https://www.weforum.org/publications/advancing-responsible-ai-innovation-a-playbook/
Taming Complexity: Intuitive Evaluation Framework for Agentic Chatbots in Business-Critical Environments
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ise/intuitive-evaluation-framework-for-agentic-chatbots/
User foundation models for Grab
https://engineering.grab.com/user-foundation-models-for-grab
Using AI to assist in rare disease diagnosis
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/using-ai-to-assist-in-rare-disease-diagnosis/
Gemini Robotics 1.5 brings AI agents into the physical world
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-15-brings-ai-agents-into-the-physical-world/

Videos

What’s New in JDK 25? Full Release Notes Breakdown – Inside Java Newscast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb2U3idOw2I
Paths to Support Additional Numeric Types on the Java Platform
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCdJb_zI5us
The Efficiency Paradox and How to Save Yourself and the World
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/efficiency-paradox/
Insanely Fast LLM Inference with this Stack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTMX_4jfRy8
Stanford CS229 I Machine Learning I Building Agents That Do the Work of Human Software Engineers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7RBPQL0rZ4

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Newsletter – Week 30, 2025

July 30, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 25 in RDP2, Spring Framework, Payara Platform, Open Liberty, Eclipse DataGrid
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/07/java-news-roundup-jul14-2025/
Java OpenJDK July 2025 Patch & Security Update
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/java-openjdk-july-2025-patch-security-update/
This Week in Spring – July 22nd, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/07/22/this-week-in-spring-july-22-2025

Articles

Spring AI 1.0 Delivers Easy AI Systems and Services
https://www.infoq.com/articles/spring-ai-1-0/
The Signal Protocol Explained #1: Implementing the Post-Quantum Extended Diffie-Hellman (PQXDH) Protocol in Rust
https://kerkour.com/signal-protocol-pqxdh-rust
State-of-the-Art Multiplatform Matrix Multiplication Kernels
https://burn.dev/blog/sota-multiplatform-matmul/
Building better platforms with continuous discovery
https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/23/building-better-platforms-with-continuous-discovery/
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
The White House AI Action Plan: a new chapter in U.S. AI policy
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-white-house-ai-action-plan-a-new-chapter-in-u-s-ai-policy/
The agentic experience: Is MCP the right tool for your AI future?
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/the-agentic-experience-is-mcp-the-right-tool-for-your-ai-future/
The evolution of Grab’s machine learning feature store
https://engineering.grab.com/evolution-of-grab-machine-learning-feature-store
A Ladder of Reasoning: Testing the power of imagination in LLMs
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/articles/a-ladder-of-reasoning-testing-the-power-of-imagination-in-llms/
Technical approach for classifying human-AI interactions at scale
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/technical-approach-for-classifying-human-ai-interactions-at-scale/

Videos

A Sneak Peek at the Stable Values API
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMypEIx8qY8
A New Model for Java Object Initialization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtvR4kqK8lo
Java Security Evolution – Out with the Old, In with the New
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLJQC7LKCp8
High Performance Serverless with Rust
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/serverless-rust-aws/
Measuring the impact of AI on software engineering – with Laura Tacho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHHlhoRC8W4
8 Big Changes Making AI Agents a Huge Deal!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0WsyHjmDf8
Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HzgcbRXUK8
Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That Can Do Anything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8-QsBHoH94

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Newsletter – Week 27, 2025

July 8, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11 Released, Agent2Agent Java SDK, Kotlin, WildFly, JobRunr, Maven
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/06/java-news-roundup-jun23-2025/
This Week in Spring – July 1st, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/07/01/this-week-in-spring-july-01-2025
Jakarta EE 11 Delivers One New Specification, 16 Updated Specifications and Modernized TCK
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/07/jakarta-ee-11-updates/
Google Launches Gemini CLI: Open-Source Terminal AI Agent for Developers
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/07/google-gemini-cli/

Articles

Leveraging Virtual Threads in an existing reactive application
https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/leveraging-virtual-threads-in-an-existing-reactive-application-8da8b5f335bc
Rust API in Minutes: MCP-Driven AI Workflow Guide
https://www.shuttle.dev/blog/2025/07/03/rust-ai-workflow-guide
How we built a real-time, client-side noise suppression library without server dependencies
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/noise-suppression-library/
Stabilizing naked functions
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/07/03/stabilizing-naked-functions/
An inside look at Meta’s transition from C to Rust on mobile
https://engineering.fb.com/2025/07/01/developer-tools/an-inside-look-at-metas-transition-from-c-to-rust-on-mobile/
Effective Practices for Coding with a Chat-Based AI
https://www.infoq.com/articles/effective-practices-ai-chat-based-coding/
MCP vs API
https://glama.ai/blog/2025-06-06-mcp-vs-api
5 ways to transform your workflow using GitHub Copilot and MCP
https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/5-ways-to-transform-your-workflow-using-github-copilot-and-mcp/
Palantir AI Policy Contributions
https://www.palantir.com/pcl/palantir-ai-policy-contributions/

Videos

Java 25 is ALSO no LTS Version – Inside Java Newscast #94
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6-kyQCYhNo
30 Years of Java… The Journey Continues by Sharat Chander
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPZZm2PLLWc
Top Security Flaws Hiding in Your Code Right Now – and How to Fix Them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcqg1CkiFIM
The Industries Adopting Rust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRgtK2DsEXM
How AI is changing software engineering at Shopify with Farhan Thawar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-3IILWQPRMk
Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PioN-CpOP0
The Future of AI with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQdsN6zyfuY
How We Get To AGI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QcCeSsNRks
EP5: MBZUAI, CMU : Causal AI, Answering The “Why“ and “What if“ Questions | AWS for AI Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_diz4hAiPGo
Software engineering with LLMs in 2025: reality check
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO3_qN_Ynsk
How to do Context Engineering (full training session) (from prompting to fine-tuning)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMiqtTbBbzI

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Newsletter – Week 26, 2025

July 2, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: MicroProfile, Open Liberty, TomEE, JobRunr, LangChain4j, Apple SwiftJava
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/06/java-news-roundup-jun16-2025/
Spring News Roundup: Spring Vault Milestone, Point Releases and End of OSS Support
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/06/spring-news-roundup-jun16-2025/
This Week in Spring – June 24th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/06/24/this-week-in-spring-june-24-2025
MicroProfile 7.1 Delivers Updates to Their Telemetry and Open API Specifications
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/06/microprofile-7-1-released/
GPULlama3.java Brings GPU-Accelerated LLM Inference to Pure Java
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/06/gpullama3-java-gpu-llm/
Announcing Rust 1.88.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/06/26/Rust-1.88.0/

Articles

Rust: A programming language that grows with you, your career and your projects
https://kerkour.com/rust-grows-with-you
Weird expressions in rust
https://www.wakunguma.com/blog/rust-weird-expr
Building Strategic Influence as a Staff Engineer or Engineering Manager
https://www.infoq.com/articles/strategic-influence-staff-engineer/
Guidelines for API Protection for Cloud-Native Systems
https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/228/final

Videos

Integrity by Default – Inside Java Podcast 38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYcHoXVnRmM
Three Cups of Java
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGzwjzT0IZg
Project Leyden’s AOT – Shifting Java Startup into High Gear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo96adJirPw
How to Debug – Lessons Learnt from 10 Years of Spring Boot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJcQqBGEJw4
Distributed Message Queue In Rust – With Redis/Valkey Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb7tTPKpZLg
Architecture Isn’t Kubernetes • Diana Montalion • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v50oJao8W1Y
Shifting Left for Better Engineering Efficiency
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/engineering-efficiency/
MCP Explained: Universal API for Prompts, Data, and Tools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NUV8JcihCg
AI Fundamentals for Builders – Understand transformers and fix LLM limitations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5_udqy1L4s
GitHub CEO: Why Now Is the BEST Time to Be a Developer | Thomas Dohmke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR__eFQsnhg
Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFQ5mIJdxhA
Satya Nadella: Microsoft’s AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUUZuzVHKdo

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Newsletter – Week 25, 2025

June 22, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Spring Milestone, Payara Platform, Jakarta EE 11 Update, Apache Fory
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/06/java-news-roundup-jun09-2025/
This Week in Spring – June 17th, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/06/17/this-week-in-spring-june-17-2025

Articles

Java 25 Integrates Compact Object Headers with JEP 519
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/06/java-25-compact-object-headers/
PACT Contract Testing – Because Not Everything Needs Full Integration Tests
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ise/pact-contract-testing-because-not-everything-needs-full-integration-tests/
Connect Spring AI to Local AI Models with Foundry Local
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/connect-spring-ai-to-local-ai-models-with-foundry-local/
The Hidden Costs of Deploying Rust Microservices
https://www.shuttle.dev/blog/2025/06/18/rust-microservices-deployment-costs
Counter Service: How we rewrote it in Rust
https://engineering.grab.com/counter-service-how-we-rewrote-it-in-rust
How Staff+ Engineers Can Develop Strategic Thinking
https://www.infoq.com/articles/staff-plus-strategic-thinking/
This AI Agent Should Have Been a SQL Query
https://www.morling.dev/blog/this-ai-agent-should-have-been-sql-query/
The SignalFire State of Talent Report – 2025
https://www.signalfire.com/blog/signalfire-state-of-talent-report-2025

Videos

Java 25 Encodes PEM – Inside Java Newscast #93
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqvMn2SwKiI
Getting the Most of Your Java Applications – The Value of Java for Enterprises
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OWELaqA1dU
The ultimate Rust performance guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3VOsGzkM-M
Advanced Rust Programming Techniques • Florian Gilcher • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQzAWxYKPSE
Things you didn’t know about GitHub – with CEO Thomas Dohmke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oq__5tDFZI
Alexandr Wang: Building Scale AI, Transforming Work With Agents & Competing With China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5noIKN8t69U
Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT’s Origins, and Building AI Hardware
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V979Wd1gmTU
Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFIlta1GkiE
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ
The Nature of AI: Solving the Planet’s Data Gap with Drew Purves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIIIau06wGo
Reasoning Models Explained: The New Scaling Law Axis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOMJmG8eWE0

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Newsletter – Week 23, 2025

June 12, 2025 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: GlassFish, JEPs Targeted for JDK 25, TornadoVM, Hibernate Reactive, Spring Cloud
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/06/java-news-roundup-may26-2025/
This Week in Spring – June 3rd, 2025
https://spring.io/blog/2025/06/03/this-week-in-spring-june-3rd-2025

Articles

Java 25 Introduces Stable Values API for Deferred Immutability and Improved Application Startup
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/06/java25-stable-values-api-startup/
Bringing GPU-Level Performance to Enterprise Java: a Practical Guide to CUDA Integration
https://www.infoq.com/articles/cuda-integration-for-java/
How to deal with Rust dependencies
https://notgull.net/rust-dependencies/
Adopting Docs-as-Code at Pinterest
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/adopting-docs-as-code-at-pinterest-4f18ad169c25
Integrating AI agents: Navigating challenges, ensuring security, and driving adoption
https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/06/02/integrating-ai-agents-navigating-challenges-ensuring-security-and-driving-adoption/
Machine learning and generative AI: What are they good for in 2025?
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/machine-learning-and-generative-ai-what-are-they-good-for
Detecting faulty deployments: Our journey from unlabeled data to supervised learning
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/detecting-faulty-deployments/
Optimizing LLM-based trip planning
https://research.google/blog/optimizing-llm-based-trip-planning/

Videos

Java 25 Brings 18 JEPs 😱 Inside Java Newscast #92
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5q72vcSjyk
Key Java Language Updates From 2020 to 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRCvMAH6-xA
Creating Cloud Native Capabilities Using the Latest Features from Java and the JVM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ7UBJBEPPk
Legacy Modernization: Architecting Realtime Systems around a Mainframe
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/rearchitecting-mainframe-system/
AI/ML Introduction for Java Developers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzEr_AqHXgY
The Efficiency Paradox & How to Save Yourself & the World • Holly Cummins • YOW! 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqsEl96K7h8
How Scale Makes Distributed Systems Slower • Jonathan Magen • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxTJ-3j9y0U
A Brief Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs) – AI for Business Professionals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lHJidvROXs
A Quest for a Cure: AI Drug Design with Isomorphic Labs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpIMuCeEtSk
Meta CTO on What’s Ahead in Artificial Intelligence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_ky8_vjBtI
Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet | Lex Fridman Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V6tWC4CdFQ

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