Spring Framework 7.0.2 Available Now Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

🍃 #Spring Framework 7.0.2 is now available!

Includes 74 fixes and documentation improvements and will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 4.0.1.

spring.io/blog/2025/12...

Hands-On with Flink — Part 1: Filtering Data from Kafka A practical series on real-time data processing with Kafka and Flink

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Spring Data AOT Repositories: Better Performance AND Developer Experience YouTube video by Dan Vega

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🎉 Spring Framework 7 brings retry capabilities INTO core! No more external spring-retry dependency needed! Reach for the RetryTemplate When you need MORE control than Retryable can give you 💪

Going stateless isn’t a limitation — it’s freedom.

In my latest post, I explain why Quarkus doesn’t expose HttpSession and how Java developers can design scalable, session-free applications with JWTs and Redis.

Read here: buff.ly/QiVJbib

#Java #Quarkus #CloudNative #DevOps #Redis

Flink Watermarks…WTF? Master Apache Flink watermarks with this interactive simulation. Learn what they are, why you need them, and how to configure them through hands-on examples.

Have you ever found yourself thinking…Flink Watermarks…WTF?
🔥 This new tool might be for you :)

It's a hands-on, scrollytelling walkthrough of what watermarks in #ApacheFlink are, why they matter, and how to use them.

Try it out: flink-watermarks.wtf

#dataBS

Spring Boot: Chapter 4 by Brian Clozel, Stephane Nicoll YouTube video by Devoxx

The talk Brian Clozel and I gave at #Devoxx is already online.

Always great to share the stage with Brian. We covered what’s next for Spring Boot: API versioning, resiliency, OpenTelemetry, structured concurrency, and more.

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NQC...

#Java #SpringBoot

TDD & DDD From The Ground Up by Chris Simon, Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 6:45 PM | Meetup 🤝 [Domain-Driven Design Barcelona](https://www.meetup.com/dddbcn/) and [N26](https://www.meetup.com/n26-tech-product-design-events-in-barcelona/) are excited to invite you

N26 Domain-Driven Design Events:
TDD & DDD From The Ground Up by Chris Simon

Chris Simon will host a live coding session demonstrating how to use Test-Driven Development (TDD) ✔️ as a gateway to Domain-Driven Design (DDD) 🗺️.

Wed, October 15th at 19:00, N26 Barcelona office
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Big things are coming soon 🤩

Spring Initializr Initializr generates spring boot project with just what you need to start quickly!

Java 25 support is now available on start.spring.io.

How to Start Contributing to Open Source Every now and then, the idea of contributing to Open Source Software crosses the mind of every developer. However, often, it just remains to think about it instead of actually doing something. In t…

Every now and then, the idea of contributing to Open Source Software crosses the mind of every developer. In this blog, I want to tell the story of my first Pull Request.
#oss

Improved Annotation Handling in Kotlin 2.2: Less Boilerplate, Fewer Surprises  | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog With Kotlin 2.2, a new default rule makes annotations land where developers expect them to, reducing boilerplate and aligning better with popular frameworks.

blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2025/09...

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JEP 502 - Stable Values. New Feature of Java 25 Explained In this article, we will look at JEP 502 Stable Values. It’s a new feature that will appear with Java 25, our new LTS, planned to be released in September. It is going to be introduced as a first prev...

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Good morning @javazone.bsky.social 2025!

Swing by the @jetbrains.com booth to see what’s new in IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2.

🎤 Don’t miss @maritvandijk.bsky.social’s talk, “Be more productive with IntelliJ IDEA”, at 10:20 am, where she’ll share tips to boost your workflow.

So happy to see Mary Grygleski at #javazone🤩🤩🤩 was great to catch up😎

Testcontainers container lifecycle management using JUnit 5 This guide will explain how to manage container lifecycle with Testcontainers using JUnit 5 lifecycle callbacks and JUnit 5 Extension annotations. We will also look into how to use Singleton Container...

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Architecting Multi-Agent AI Systems in Java with Quarkus and Langchain4j
How to orchestrate scalable AI workflows using message-driven agents and local LLMs with Kafka
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#Java #Quarkus #AiAgents #LangChain4j #Kafka

gRPC vs REST: Choosing the best API design approach - LogRocket Blog Compare gRPC vs REST to understand differences in performance, efficiency, and architecture for building modern APIs.

blog.logrocket.com/grpc-vs-rest/

A Practical Guide to Testing Spring Controllers With MockMvcTester | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog Spring Framework 6.2 introduced MockMvcTester to support writing AssertJ style assertions using AssertJ under the hood. If you’re using Spring Boot, the spring-boot-starter-test dependency transiti

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Spring Boot and Java 24: What Developers Need to Know in 2025 Spring Boot's integration with Java 24 marks an exciting evolution for modern application...

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[VDBUH2025] Simon Martinelli - Goodbye Microservices, Hello Self-Contained Systems YouTube video by Devoxx

The recording of my talk "Goodbye Microservices, Hello Self-Contained Systems" at Voxxed Days Bucharest is online!
#SCS #Microservices #Architecture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjre...

How to Level Up Your Java Streams with JDK 24's New Gatherers Feature (Practical Tutorial) YouTube video by Dan Vega

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You know a technology became a commodity when competitors start agreeing on standards.

#MCP #OpenAI #Anthropic

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Synchronous and Asynchronous Data Flows in an E-commerce System

Blogged: "The Synchrony Budget"

Making the case that communication between services should be as asynchronous as possible and as synchronous as necessary.

www.morling.dev/blog/the-syn...

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Automating Podcast Promotion with AI and Event-Driven Design We built an AI-powered tool to automate LinkedIn post creation for our podcasts, using Kafka, Flink, and OpenAI models. Learn how this system works in our latest blog!

www.confluent.io/blog/automat...

Release 8.8.0 | JHipster This is a minor release for JHipster v8.

Happy holidays to the #JHipster community: JHipster v8.8.0 is now available!

🌱 Spring Boot 3.4
❤️ Angular 19
🛋️ Couchbase fixed
💪 Many other improvements

🎁 www.jhipster.tech/2024/12/23/j...

Thanks to all the contributors! 🙏

#java #springboot #angular

Ghostty Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

check out ghostty.org

I've been using for a while - it's great! ✨

... and it's just been open-sourced on github.com/ghostty-org/...

Slash commands can be your best friend when using GitHub Copilot. Check out some of the most common ones 👇
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