1. Spring and Java
>> Functional Optics for Modern Java – Part 1 [scottlogic.com]
Pattern matching gave us elegant reads on nested immutable data, but updates still mean a painful copy-constructor cascade. This fill that gap, letting us compose access paths and turn 25-line field updates into single expressions. Good stuff.
Also worth reading:
- >> Run Into the New Year with Java’s Ahead-of-Time Cache Optimizations [inside.java]
- >> One Giant Leap: 95% Less Sampling Cost [inside.java]
- >> Towards faster builds [quarkus.io]
- >> Virtual Thread States [javaspecialists.eu]
- >> Spring AI Agentic Patterns (Part 1): Agent Skills – Modular, Reusable Capabilities [spring.io]
- >> Java Warmup and the Scaling Loop Problem [azul.com]
- >> Flaky Tests: a journey to beat them all [foojay.io]
- >> Dev Guide: How to choose your LLM [foojay.io]
- >> Optimizing Java for the Cloud-Native Era with Quarkus [foojay.io]
- >> The Journey to Compose Hot Reload 1.0.0 [jetbrains.com]
- >> Why pipeline acceleration is now a strategic imperative in the GenAI era [gradle.com]
Webinars and presentations:
- >> Java’s Plans for 2026 – Inside Java Newscast #104 [inside.java]
- >> The Static Dynamic JVM – A Many Layered Dive #JVMLS [inside.java]
- >> A Bootiful Podcast: Jonatan Ivanov on how to measure all the things with Micrometer [spring.io]
- >> A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Security lead Rob Winch on Spring Security 7 [spring.io]
- >> Java Concurrency from the Trenches: Lessons Learned in the Wild [infoq.com]
- >> Fix SLO Breaches before They Repeat: an SRE AI Agent for Application Workloads [infoq.com]
Time to upgrade:
- >> Spring gRPC 1.0.1 [spring.io]
- >> Quarkus 3.30.6 [quarkus.io]
- >> Netflix Zuul 3.3.1 [github.com/Netflix]
- >> Grails 7.0.5 [github.com/grails]
- >> Apache Camel 4.17.0 and 4.14.4 [github.com/apache]
2. Technical & Musings
Also worth reading:
- >> Options appraisal: a pragmatic guide for architecture decisions [scottlogic.com]
- >> My first two months using AI [advancedweb.hu]
- >> Porting MiniJinja to Go With an Agent [lucumr.pocoo.org]
- >> Towards Generalizable and Efficient Large-Scale Generative Recommenders [netflixtechblog.medium.com]
- >> Fragments: January 8 [martinfowler.com]
3. Pick of the Week
I wrote about this last week – definitely have a look at the Spring Boot focused live event here:
>> Register for the Live Webinar on the 21st
It’s a practical, hands-on training for teams on Boot 2.x, 3.x, and planning for 4.x.
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