We’re at a cool 600 
Thanks for being along for the ride.
1. Spring and Java
>> Demystifying Spring Boot With Spring Debugger [blog.jetbrains.com]
Debugging a framework that does most of the work in behind the scenes can sometimes be frustrating things aren’t going as planned.
The Spring Debugger plugin for IntelliJ IDEA helps identify any issues that may be occurring behind the scenes. Good tool in the toolbelt.
>> Benchmarking and profiling Java with JMH [foojay.io]
A good way to take your performance metrics to the next level, and definitely beyond the basics, is with the jmh-core library.
Also worth reading:
- >> Clean and Modular Java: A Hexagonal Architecture Approach [foojay.io]
- >> Java, What’s Old? Part I: Collections [foojay.io]
- >> Spring Boot + Kafka Streams: Event Routing & Testing [foojay.io]
- >> How to Train ReadyNow to Achieve Optimal Java Performance [foojay.io]
- >> GPULlama3.java Brings GPU-Accelerated LLM Inference to Pure Java [infoq.com]
Webinars and presentations:
- >> Stack Overflow Podcast Celebrating 30 Years of Java [stackoverflow.blog]
- >> Episode 38 “Integrity by Default” with Ron Pressler [inside.java]
- >> A Bootiful Podcast: Micrometer.io lead Tommy Ludwig on the latest-and-greatest in observability for the Spring developer [spring.io]
- >> Java 25 Encodes PEM – Inside Java Newscast #93 [inside.java]
Time to upgrade:
- >> Spring Modulith 1.4.1 and 1.3.7 released [spring.io]
- >> Spring Boot 3.5.3 available now [spring.io]
- >> Quarkus 3.23.4 [github.com/quarkusio]
- >> Jetty.project 12.1.0.beta1 [github.com/jetty]
- >> Microprofile 7.1 [github.com/microprofile]
- >> Eclipse-vertx [github.com/eclipse-vertx]
- >> Elasticsearch 9.0.3 [github.com/elastic]
- >> Micronaut-core v4.9.5 [github.com/micronaut-projects]
- >> Camel-4.10.6 [github.com/apache]
2. Technical & Musings
>> Will AI Agents Force Us to Finally Do Auth Right? [christianposta.com]
Think about AI Agents’ properties when dealing with microservices, considering their safety.
AI Agents’ properties: they are autonomous and probabilistic, they dynamically reach out to other agents, building an emergent call graph.
Also worth reading:
- >> My First Open Source AI Generated Library [lucumr.pocoo.org]
- >> Ensuring Safe and Reliable AI Interactions with LLM Guardrails [foojay.io]
- >> LLMs bring new nature of abstraction [martinfowler.com]
- >> What is a Data Lakehouse? [blog.scottlogic.com]
3. Pick of the Week
>> Don’t Shave That Yak! [seths.blog]
