News

• Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEP Updates, Spring AI, Quarkus, LangChain4j, JReleaser, WildFly
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/05/java-news-roundup-apr28-2025/
• This Week in Spring – May 6th, 2025
  https://spring.io/blog/2025/05/06/this-week-in-spring-may-6th-2025
• Announcing rustup 1.28.2
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/05/05/Rustup-1.28.2/

Articles

• Instance Main Methods Move from Preview to Final in JDK 25
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/05/jdk25-instance-main-methods/
• JBang Jash Brings Streamlined Process Execution to Java
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/05/jbang-jash/
• The Evolution of Rust
  https://ranger-ross.github.io/blog/evolution-of-rust/
• Flattening Rust’s Learning Curve
  https://corrode.dev/blog/flattening-rusts-learning-curve/
• How to build small and secure Docker images for Rust (FROM scratch)
  https://kerkour.com/rust-docker-from-scratch
• Authentication with Axum
  https://mattrighetti.com/2025/05/03/authentication-with-axum
• Behind the Scenes: Building a Robust Ads Event Processing Pipeline
  https://netflixtechblog.com/behind-the-scenes-building-a-robust-ads-event-processing-pipeline-e4e86caf9249
• InfoQ Culture and Methods Trends Report – 2025
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/culture-trends-2025/
• Agents Companion
  https://www.kaggle.com/whitepaper-agent-companion
• Societal AI: Building human-centered AI systems
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/societal-ai-building-human-centered-ai-systems/
• A new light on neural connections
  https://research.google/blog/a-new-light-on-neural-connections/

Videos

• Real World Lean Java Practices, Patterns, Hacks, and Workarounds
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1YH_GsS-e0
• Structured Concurrency Revamp in Java 25 – Inside Java Newscast #91
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLJDPmXufQw
• JavaFX 24 and Beyond
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxHbXY34iFQ
• Learn the Rust programming language – Course for beginners
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAX3Zj-JGE0
• Side-Effects Are The Complexity Iceberg • Kris Jenkins • YOW! 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nG09Z_tdUU
• Level Up: Choosing The Technical Leadership Path • Patrick Kua • YOW! 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQXR2_fMIog
• How AI Coding Agents Will Change Your Job
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TECDj4JUx7o
• AI and the Future of Health with Joelle Barral
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q02UAfqwWU
• Building Windsurf with Varun Mohan
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9WOC8sUts8
• Llamacon 2025 – Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg and Satya Nadella
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaJOONFllLc

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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/

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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

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