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AWS CDK Refactor Feature: Safe Infrastructure as Code Renaming
AWS's new Cloud Development Kit (CDK) refactor command allows engineers to safely rename and reorganize infrastructure as code without forcing a destructive rebuild. The feature, leveraging a similar AWS CloudFormation capability, automatically computes the necessary mappings to preserve resources like databases, solving a major pain point that previously led to data loss and downtime.
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How Netflix Powers Audience Insights at Trillion-Row Scale
In a recent blog post, Netflix engineers described how they scaled Muse, the company’s internal application for data-driven creative insights, to handle trillion-row datasets.
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Preact 11 Beta Introduces Hydration 2.0, Default Ref Forwarding, and Modernized Bundling
Preact 11 Beta is here! This lightweight React-compatible library modernizes hydration and API ergonomics with key updates like Hydration 2.0, default ref forwarding, and streamlined bundling. It ditches legacy features for improved performance and compatibility while maintaining a small footprint. Upgrade now for a faster, cleaner development experience!
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Java News Roundup: JDK 25, GraalVM for JDK 25, OpenJDK JEPs, LangChain4j, JBang, Gradle
This week's Java roundup for September 15th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA releases of JDK 25 and GraalVM for JDK 25; new JEP candidates and JEPs targeted for JDK 26; point releases of Quarkus, the A2A Java SDK, Apache TomEE, LangChain4j and Gradle; the second alpha release of Hibernate Validator 9.1; and Oracle detaching GraalVM from the Java release train.
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OpenAI Releases GPT-5-Codex Optimized for Complex Code Refactoring and Code Reviews
Introducing GPT-5-Codex: OpenAI's latest AI model revolutionizing software engineering with advanced capabilities in code refactoring and review. Operating autonomously for over 7 hours, it ensures efficiency and accuracy, achieving 51.3% accuracy in complex tasks. Adaptively reasoning, it enhances developer workflows, producing high-quality, tested code while minimizing noise.
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Spring News Roundup: Third Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, GraphQL, Integration, Modulith
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of September 15th, 2025, highlighting third milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring REST Docs, Spring Batch and Spring for Apache Pulsar. There were also resolutions to CVEs in Spring Framework and Spring Security.
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Cloudflare Adds Node.js HTTP Servers to Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare recently implemented the node:http client and server APIs in Cloudflare Workers, allowing developers to migrate existing Node.js applications to the serverless computing platform. These HTTP APIs enable popular Node.js frameworks, such as Express.js and Koa.js, to run on Workers.
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Microsoft Introduces Logic Apps as MCP Servers in Public Preview
Microsoft has unveiled a public preview of Azure Logic Apps (Standard) as Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, enabling developers to build and manage AI agents easily. This new capability promotes seamless integration with diverse systems, enhancing scalability and reusability while simplifying the development process for enterprise workflows.
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Google Brings Optimized Resource Shrinking in Latest Android Gradle Plugin
The latest version of the Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) introduces an optimized resource-shrinking approach that unifies code optimization and resource shrinking, achieving up to 50% reduction in app size for apps that share significant resources and code across different form factor, says Google.
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.NET 10 RC 1: Introduces Persistent State in Blazor, Enhanced Validation, and Production-Ready Tools
Last week, Microsoft announced the release of .NET 10 RC 1, the first of two release candidates ahead of the final version. As stated by the .NET team, this build comes with a go-live license, allowing developers to use it in production environments with official support. It is available alongside Visual Studio 2026 Insiders and is supported in Visual Studio Code through the C# Dev Kit.
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Improved Application Insights Code Optimizations Identify .NET Performance Bottlenecks Automatically
Microsoft is expanding .NET developers’ toolset with enhancements to Code Optimizations. This feature is part of Azure Monitor offering and now works with the .NET Profiler in Application Insights to automatically detect CPU, memory, and threading issues in production apps and give code‑level recommendations to fix them.
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Java 25, the Next LTS Release, Delivers Finalized Features and Focus on Performance and Runtime
Oracle has released version 25 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first LTS release since JDK 21, the final feature set includes 18 JEPs, seven of which are finalized having evolved through the incubation and preview processes. Nine of these features are focused on performance and runtime.
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From Black Box to Blueprint: Thoughtworks Uses Generative AI to Extract Legacy System Functionality
Thoughtworks consultants successfully harnessed generative AI to decode legacy systems lacking source code. Using Gemini 2.5 Pro, they accelerated reverse engineering, creating validated "blueprints" of functionality in just two weeks. The pilot showcased AI's potential to drastically reduce time and risk in modernizing opaque systems while balancing speed with validation.
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Introducing the MCP Registry
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem is enhancing AI development with a public registry for server discovery and a secure gateway for agent interactions. This initiative, featuring the recently launched MCP Registry and the Linux Foundation's Agentgateway project, streamlines the management of AI tools, fostering collaboration and security for engineering teams.
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Pinterest Unifies Engineering Tools with New Pinconsole Platform
Pinterest has introduced PinConsole, a unified internal developer platform (IDP) that centralizes engineering workflows. Built to address fragmented tools for deployment, monitoring, and service management, PinConsole provides a consistent layer that lets engineers focus on business logic instead of infrastructure complexity.