Java Weekly, Issue 627

Happy New Year 🙂

1. Spring, Java and Everything Else

>> 331 Virtual Thread States [javaspecialists.eu]

This deeper visibility into virtual thread states, lets us confirm unmounting behavior and spot pinning issues, ensuring our high-concurrency apps aren’t silently stalling on the carrier threads. Really useful.

Also worth reading:

• >> STF Milestone 7: Safe cancellation [marcphilipp.de]
• >> Why I prefer multi-tenant systems [advancedweb.hu]
• >> QCon AI New York 2025: AI Works, PRs Don’t: How AI is Breaking the SDLC and What to Do about it [infoq.com]
• >> Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams with an ElevenLabs Voice AI Agent [behind-the-enemy-lines.com]
• >> Processing 630 Million More Pwned Passwords, Courtesy of the FBI [troyhunt.com]

Webinars and presentations:

• >> A Bootiful Podcast: Apache Tomcat legend Mark Thomas (Happy new year!) [spring.io]
• >> Episode 43 “Predictability or Innovation? Both!” with Georges Saab [inside.java]
• >> Fix SLO Breaches before They Repeat: an SRE AI Agent for Application Workloads [infoq.com]
• >> Foojay Podcast #88: From Code to Stage: Organizing Conferences and Finding Your Voice as a Speaker [foojay.io]

Time to upgrade:

• >> Spring Shell 4.0.0 GA released! [spring.io]
• >> Apache Camel 4.14.3 [camel.apache.org]
• >> Quarkus 3.30.5 [github.com/quarkusio]

2. Pick of the Week

>> Life is Short [paulgraham.com]