1. Spring and Java
>> Spring Framework 7.0 General Availability [spring.io]
Spring 7 is out! Featuring Java 25 and Jakarta EE 11 support alongside the Java 17 baseline. It’s a massive upgrade for our toolkits, bringing programmatic bean registration, core resilience features, and enhanced null safety directly into our workflows. Nuff said 
>> IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3 
Spring 7 [jetbrains.com]
And, of course, full IntelliJ support is out right away, alongside Spring 7
>> Are you really wasting your time in Java without these 10 libraries? [frankel.ch]
Modern Java has evolved to natively handle the boilerplate we once used libraries for. For the most part. This definitely helps keep our projects lighter.
Also worth reading:
- >> Spring Data 2025.1.0 goes GA [spring.io]
- >> Null-safe applications with Spring Boot 4 [spring.io]
- >> OpenTelemetry with Spring Boot [spring.io]
- >> Document Your Spring REST APIs with Annotations [foojay.io]
- >> Micrometer & Prometheus in Spring Boot: Kafka Burger Orders
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[foojay.io] - >> jMolecules 2.0 – Stereotypical [odrotbohm.de]
- >> JEP 516: Ahead-of-Time Object Caching with Any GC [inside.java]
- >> Mind Maps Didn’t Make Me Scroll [medium.com]
- >> Q&A About My Work At Oracle’s Java Platform Group [nipafx.dev]
- >> Quarkus Micrometer using Prometheus client v1 [quarkus.io]
- >> AI Assisted Engineering With an AI Chatbot – From Idea to Working Code [petrikainulainen.net]
Webinars and presentations:
- >> Deep Dive into Gatherers – JEP Cafe #24 [inside.java]
- >> Serialization 2.0: A Marshalling Update! [inside.java]
- >> Foojay Podcast #82: OpenJDK Projects (Leyden, Babylon, Panama) and TornadoVM [foojay.io]
- >> A Bootiful Podcast: The legendary Bruce Eckel [spring.io]
- >> Beyond the Vector API – A Quest for a Lower Level API #JVMLS [inside.java]
Time to upgrade:
- >> Spring Framework 6.2.13 Available Now [spring.io]
- >> Spring Security 7.0.0, 6.5.7, 6.4.13 available now [spring.io]
- >> Spring Data 2025.0.6 and 2024.1.12 released [spring.io]
- >> Spring AI 1.1 GA Released [spring.io]
- >> Spring for GraphQL 2.0.0 goes GA [spring.io]
- >> Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 goes GA [spring.io]
- >> Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.12 and 2.0.0 are now available [spring.io]
- >> Spring Vault 4.0 goes GA [spring.io]
- >> Spring Web Services 5.0.0 available now [spring.io]
- >> Spring REST Docs 4.0.0 [spring.io]
- >> Quarkus 3.27.1 (LTS), Quarkus 3.20.4 (LTS) and Quarkus 3.29.3 [quarkus.io]
- >> Micronaut Core 4.10.2 [github.com/micronaut-projects]
- >> Helidon 4.3.2 [github.com/helidon-io]
- >> Payara Platform Community 7.2025.1 [payara.fish]
- >> WildFly 38.0.1 is released [wildfly.org]
- >> Netflix Conductor 3.15.0 [github.com/Netflix]
- >> Netflix Zuul 3.2.10 [github.com/Netflix]
- >> Elasticsearch 9.2.1 and Elasticsearch 8.19.7 [github.com/elastic]
- >> First milestone release of Jakarta Validation 4.0 [beanvalidation.org]
2. Technical & Musings
Also worth reading:
- >> Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs [medium.com]
- >> Avoid stdio! MCP Servers In Enterprise Should Be Remote [christianposta.com]
- >> Requeuing Roulette in Event-Driven Architecture and Messaging [event-driven.io]
- >> How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 2 — Building a Scalable Storage Layer [medium.com]
- >> Heterogeneous Treatment Effects at Netflix [medium.com]
- >> Integrating Netflix’s Foundation Model into Personalization applications [medium.com]
3. Pick of the Week
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