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17 July

This Java documentary is about to premiere! So excited

businessinsider.comMicrosoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 employees. Read the memo.Around 60,000 employees will be eligible and the terms of the buyout will resemble Microsoft's standard severance offer.

Microsoft is offering voluntary severance to 1/4 employees, or around 60,000 people, per Business Insider. Staggering. Hugs to all affected today. https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-is-offering-buyouts-read-the-memo-2026-10

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eMudhra certificate compromise: GraalVM Native Image advisory TL;DR: native images don't use the jdk certificate chain so u need to patch and rebuild https://www.graalvm.org/uploads/native-image-advisory-oct-2026-cspu.pdf

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"This Security Alert addresses CVE-2026-91403 by providing Java updates which distrusts the set of impacted intermediate CA certificates related to eMudhra. ...update to the latest Java version or apply the recommended mitigations." https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/alert-cve-2026-91403.html

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blogs.vmware.comVMware Tanzu Platform 11.0: The Agent Platform for VMware Private AI CloudAnnouncing general availability of VMware Tanzu Platform 11.0, the agent platform for VMware Private AI Cloud and the native platform as a service for VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1. By bringing the simplicity of our cf push experience directly to Kubernetes, decoupling and modernizing enterprise data fleets, unifying multi-region operations, and delivering an end to end security model from source code to infrastructure, Tanzu Platform 11.0 gives organizations the foundation to build, run, and scale traditional microservices and autonomous agents with confidence.

🚀 VMware #Tanzu Platform 11.0 is GA! Agent platform for VMware Private AI Cloud & PaaS for VCF 9.1: secure agents, cf push on Kubernetes, runtimeCVE rescoring, & more. #PrivateAI #Kubernetes https://blogs.vmware.com/tanzu/vmware-tanzu-platform-11-0-the-agent-platform-for-vmware-private-ai-cloud/

podbean.comA Bootiful Podcast | Josh LongI'm Josh Long (@starbuxman), a humble Spring developer advocate at @VMWare, and this is A Bootiful Podcast (@BootifulPodcast), a celebration of the real heroes that drive ecosystems.

Hi, Spring fans! 🚀 Deep dive with JetBrains’ Anton Arhipov into JetBrains AIR: chat-first IDEs, agent orchestration, spec-driven dev, MCP/ACP, and AI debugging. Coding is shifting to guided AI collaboration. #JetBrains #AI #Java #DevTools #MCP #Agents https://www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-zw857-543663

This Week in Spring is out! MCP services w/ Spring & JBang, fact-checking claims, Java vs Rust, SSRF protection in Spring Boot 4.1, .env files, and more. A packed roundup for Spring fans. #Spring #Java #SpringBoot https://spring.io/blog/2026/10/20/this-week-in-spring-october-20th-2026

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🎙️ New episode: I chat with Andrew Lombardi about his AI-assisted experiment porting a real app to Kotlin vs the “rewrite it in Rust” hype. Performance, benchmarks, JVM tradeoffs, and more. Listen: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ihr3x-1b867eb

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"You can't trust mystery sandwiches. And if we agree on that, then surely we agree we wouldn't want to trust mystery dependencies either." Good sandwich talk from @starbuxman.joshlong.com enterprise.spring.io?utm_source=c... youtu.be/nj2KoEa2gIs

🚨 This Week in Spring is out! Highlights include Jobrunr 9, Spring Modulith, Progen CLI, IntelliJ IDEA, Spring AI, and a chat with Jenkins creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi. Catch the roundup here: https://spring.io/blog/2026/10/13/this-week-in-spring-october-13th-2026

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Missed this session? Get practical tips for working with IntelliJ IDEA and Spring Boot in “Bootiful IntelliJ IDEA” by @starbuxman.joshlong.com. Watch the recording on YouTube: youtu.be/Ijdk06qjtdo #IntelliJIDEAConf

Thank you #Devoxx!

Spring fans: I talked with legendary Java developer Kohsuke Kawaguchi about Java, Jenkins, cycling, AI, CI, and the future of software. Great stories, sharp ideas, and where open ecosystems go next. Listen: https://www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-zw857-543663

Hi, Spring fans! Legendary Java dev Kohsuke Kawaguchi joins me for a wide-ranging chat on Java, XML, Jenkins, cycling, AI, and the future of software. Great stories, sharp insights, and fresh takes on CI, open ecosystems, and what’s next. Listen here: https://www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-zw857-543663

Hi Devoxx Belgium! I know you’ve got a lot of good choices today, but I hope you’ll join me in 15 minutes in room 8 for a look at the latest and greatest in the wild world of Spring Boot 4.x! #devoxxbe #devoxx

🚀 Hi, Spring fans! I’m writing from legendary Devoxx Belgium in Antwerp. Plus: Spring AI modular RAG, TypeSafe Jev, OneLens, podcasts, best practices, and more! Let’s go! #SpringBoot #SpringAI #DevoxxBelgium https://spring.io/blog/2026/10/06/this-week-in-spring-october-6th-2026

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Here's the new #JavaFX #LinksOfTheWeek 🎉 www.jfx-central.com/links Thanks to Igor Azarny, @maxiong.bsky.social, Anahata ASI, Artistic_Solution117, @frankdelporte.be, @starbuxman.joshlong.com @andresalmiray.com, Libán Bande González, Sombriks & Old_Assistance7! Have a lovely #Java weekend!

amazing post by Spring AI lead Christian Tsolov on using Jev for modular RAG https://spring.io/blog/2026/10/02/spring-ai-modular-rag-typesafe-jev

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J’ai du le regarder trois fois pour tout noter! Session Incroyable et grand merci @yodamad03.bsky.social !

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Kotlin has come a long way in 15 years! The new State of Kotlin report is a good read. https://kotlinlang.org/assets/state-of-kotlin-2026.pdf

A high-energy chat with Andres Almiray on the future of desktop Java, Electron vs. JavaFX, and tools that make shipping easier. Also: env/dependency workflows and JReleaser for releases, installers, bundles, signatures, and multi-platform publishing. https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-uv35s-1b73a7f

jobrunr.ioJobRunr & JobRunr Pro v9: See Inside Every Background JobJobRunr v9 draws every attempt and every durable step of a job on a chart. JobRunr Pro v9 adds Job Analytics to the dashboard, can pause and resume a batch halfway and starts jobs within milliseconds on Postgres, without multicast.

Honey, wake up! JobRunr 9’s here: durable job execution now has a timeline view of every step, including skipped retries of completed steps. Spring Boot 4-ready, the free starter includes the timeline https://www.jobrunr.io/en/blog/v9-release/

🚀 Spring fans, this week’s roundup is packed: release practice updates, fresh Spring Boot 4.2.0 M2 goodies, new Spring AI, Data, Security, Cloud, Batch, Integration, AMQP, Web Services, and more. This is the thread to read https://spring.io/blog/2026/09/29/this-week-in-spring-september-29th-2026

arxiv.orgSWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via Continuous IntegrationLarge language model (LLM)-powered agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in automating software engineering tasks such as static bug fixing. However, in the real world, the development of matur...

I never start or finish any project without IntelliJ IDEA open. Lately, I’ve also been keeping JetBrains AIR, OpenCode, Goose, and a few others open too. I still haven’t quite decided which one I like best.

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So my view is this: the AI model is like a get-out-of-jail-free card. If I don’t know the answer, I don’t have to go wandering through Stack Overflow hoping to find someone who does (or did).

I don’t involve AI until I already know what I want. At that point, it mostly becomes a typing exercise, and the AI just helps me get there a little faster. How about you?

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I’m definitely not at the point some vibe coders seem to be at, w/ endless agents working concurrently. The code gets too messy too quickly. Having too many people work on the same codebase at once has never really worked well, so why would adding speed and taking time away make it better?

Alibaba did a study [1] on using AI agents to maintain a codebase, and within less than a year, the codebase had become unmaintainable. I should write a book: "The Mythical Agent-Month." 1. arxiv.org/abs/2603.03823

JetBrains AIR + Claude seems like it may end up being my favorite, mostly because it fits so well with IntelliJ IDEA. That said, it’s hard to beat the price of Goose/OpenCode + Ollama. (Ollama even lets you use “Claude Code” backed by Ollama models, which is pretty cool.)

I mainly use these tools to organize my thoughts and keep a history of my interactions with agents, not to spin up lots of them all at once.

new in Spring AI 2.1.0 M1: initial support for a structured, ordered model for message content, support for the *OpenAI Responses API*, and a way to write pre-computed embeddings into a vector store https://spring.io/blog/2026/09/25/spring-ai-2-1-0-M1-available-now

Incredible find about Maven 4 by my pal and Spring Cloud lead Spencer Gibb! https://maven.apache.org/docs/4.0.0-rc-7/release-notes.html

have you upgraded to java 27 yet? you know what that means? we're 10 versions past java 17!

🎙️ New episode of a Bootiful Podcast: I chat with Michael Carducci on deterministic AI, semantic layers, and why the future of AI may be won at the data layer-not the model layer. For production-ready AI and auditable reasoning, listen here: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-edzgh-1b6a707

so often we get people in the chat asking about what they could do to learn java! well, the java team's got ya sorted! check out their new channel, ⁨YouTube.com/@Learn-Java⁩ !

futurism.com"Slop Grenades": Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use AI Is Now Horrified by What He's WroughtShopify CEO Tobias Lütke is getting a first-hand look at the AI-workplace revolution, and it isn't a pretty sight.

AI slop leader, Shopify CEO, now horrified by what he wrought https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/shopify-ceo-ai-workplace-staff-horrified-backfire

seriously, have you watched this fantastic talk by Java architect Ron Pressler on the principles of memory management in Java? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr73mR7ii9M

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Spring AI and TypeSafe Jev: Fast, Cheap, Structured Decisions https://spring.io/blog/2026/09/21/spring-ai-typesafe-structured-judgment

21 Sept

Releasing spring for Modern challenges https://spring.io/blog/2026/09/21/releasing-spring-for-modern-challenges