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Spring News Roundup: RCs of Spring Boot, Data, Security, Auth, Session, Integration, Web Services
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of April 21st, 2025, highlighting first release candidates of Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith and Spring Web Services.
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AWS Promotes Responsible AI in the Well-Architected Generative AI Lens
AWS announced the availability of the new Well-Architected Generative AI Lens, focused on providing best practices for designing and operating generative AI workloads. The lens is aimed at organizations delivering robust and cost-effective generative AI solutions on AWS. The document offers cloud-agnostic best practices, implementation guidance and links to additional resources.
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Activision Reduces Build Time of Call of Duty by 50% with MSVC Build Insights
Activision has cut build times for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (COD) in half by profiling and optimizing their C++ build system with MSVC Build Insights to uncover bottlenecks in their compilation pipeline. The effort unblocked developers, accelerated delivery, and reduced idle time.
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Azure MCP Server Enters Public Preview: Expanding AI Agent Capabilities
Microsoft's Azure MCP Server, now in Public Preview, enhances AI capabilities by enabling seamless interaction with Azure resources. This open-source tool standardizes AI agent access to services like Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Storage, empowering developers to create context-aware applications. Expect rich functionality and support for custom MCP clients to optimize cloud resource management.
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QCon London 2025 Day 2: the Form of AI, Securing AI Assistants, WASM Components in FaaS
The 19th annual QCon London conference took place at the The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, England. This three-day event, organized by C4Media, consists of presentations by expert practitioners. Day Two, scheduled on April 8th, 2025, included a keynote address by Savannah Kunovsky and presentations from five conference tracks.
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Gemini to Arrive On-Premises with Google Distributed Cloud
Google's Gemini models are set to revolutionize on-premises AI with their upcoming launch on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) in Q3 2025. Partnering with NVIDIA, organizations can harness advanced AI while maintaining strict compliance and data residency. With flexible infrastructure and secure environments, Gemini enables real-time insights for data-driven decision-making across industries.
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Fast Eventual Consistency: Inside Corrosion, the Distributed System Powering Fly.io
Innovative cloud solutions expert Somtochi Onyekwere recently presented at QCon London 2025, unveiling Corrosion—Fly.io's advanced open-source distributed system. By leveraging CRDTs and Rust, Corrosion enhances scalability and data synchronization, addressing latency challenges and ensuring rapid, consistent application deployment across a global network of 40+ regions.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 25 Schedule, Spring 7.0-M4, Payara Platform, JobRunr 7.5, Jox 1.0, Commonhaus
This week's Java roundup for April 14th, 2025, features news highlighting: the JDK 25 release schedule; the fourth milestone release of Spring Framework 7.0.0; the April 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; the release of JobRunr 7.5.0 and Jox 1.0.0; and Kroxylicious having joined the Commonhaus Foundation.
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OpenJDK News Roundup: Compact Source, Module Import Declarations, Key Derivation, Scoped Values
There was a flurry of activity in the OpenJDK ecosystem during the week of April 14th, 2025, highlighting eight new JEPs having been elevated from their JEP Drafts to Candidate status. Four of these will be finalized after their respective rounds of preview.
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Architecture is Designing Knowledge Flow – Diana Montalion at Explore DDD
At the Explore DDD conference, Diana Montalion said software architecture is about designing for knowledge flow, with the goal of software teams learning more about the system they are building. This contrasts with the traditional focus on knowledge stock, which is about information that is already known. She sees effective architects as librarians, helping disseminate knowledge.
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AWS Introduces MCP Servers for AI-Assisted Cloud Development
AWS has launched the open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers, revolutionizing AI-powered code assistants. These servers enhance development speed and security, ensuring adherence to AWS best practices. With features like automated Infrastructure as Code and cost insights, MCP democratizes AWS expertise and empowers developers to optimize cloud solutions effortlessly.
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QCon London 2025: Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise - Some Assembly Required
In an engaging talk at QCon London 2025, Louis Ryan, CTO of Solo.io and co-creator of Istio, addressed the complexities of hybrid cloud-native networking. He emphasized intentional assembly of network components, critical evaluation of tools, and treating networking as a primary focus to ensure reliability, observability, and security in today's intricate enterprise environments.
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The Open-Source Version of InfluxDB 3 Reaches GA
Two years after releasing the GA version of InfluxData’s enterprise edition, their open-source version also reached that level of maturity. Conceptualised for real-time workloads and ease of running, the core version leaves aside features like long-term storage optimisations, compaction or high availability (HA), read replicas, or fine-grained access controls.
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QCon London 2025: Applying Domain-Driven Design at Scale
At QCon London 2025, Vanderbijl unveiled how domain-driven design transformed a chaotic healthcare platform into a coherent business architecture. Through innovative strategies like "Take That" and "Robbie Williams," the team tackled architectural complexity, emphasizing adaptability and continuous improvement. This journey illustrates DDD as an evolving process essential for sustainable growth.
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QCon London: How to Design GenAI Interaction from the Company That Designed Apple’s First Mouse
During her QCon London keynote, Savannah Kunovsky, managing director of emerging technologies at IDEO, talked about how design thinking can ensure that the products we build are not only technically impactful but genuinely impactful. She also discussed how we can use Gen AI to assist people in being more connected and adapting their interactions to their users' needs.