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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.
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Java News Roundup: WildFly 36, Spring Milestones, Betas for Open Liberty, Hibernate, LangChain4j
This week's Java roundup for April 7th, 2025, features news highlighting: milestone releases of Spring AI 1.0 and Spring Cloud 2025; beta releases of Open Liberty 2025.0.0, Hibernate Reactive 3.0 and LangChain4j 1.0; and the sixth release candidate of Vert.x 5.0.
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Datadog Employs LLMs for Assisting with Writing Accident Postmortems
Datadog combined structured metadata from its incident management app with Slack messages to create an LLM-driven functionality assisting engineers in composing incident postmortems. While working on this solution, the company dealt with the challenges of using LLMs outside of the interactive dialog systems and ensuring that high-quality content was produced.
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QCon London 2025 Day 1: Parsing Data from Space, Developer Joy, Local First Apps, Platforms
The 19th annual QCon London conference was held at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, England. This three-day event, organized by C4Media, consists of presentations by expert practitioners. Day One, scheduled on April 7th, 2025, included a keynote address by Dr. Kenneth Harris and presentations from five conference tracks.
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QCon London 2025: the Origin Story of AMQP - Advanced Message Queuing Politics
Join John O'Hara, creator of the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), as he shares the compelling journey of this groundbreaking technology at QCon London. Discover the intricate dynamics of collaboration, challenges faced, and the human element in open standards. O'Hara's insights illuminate the politics behind technology development, proving vision is as vital as innovation.
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QCon London 2025: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure
Matthew Liste, head of infrastructure at American Express, shared insights at QCon London 2025 on building robust cloud platforms in financial services. With 20+ years of experience, he emphasized stability, security, scalability, the value of interchangeable components, and long-term sustainability, urging professionals to maintain focus and foster a strong team culture for platform engineering.
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Lessons on How to Get Timeouts, Retries and Idempotency Right from Sam Newman at QCon London
At QCon London, Sam Newman - the architect who has attributed the coining of the term microservices, went back to the basics to underline the three critical things to get right when working with distributed systems: timeouts, retries and idempotency. Through the talk, he provided mechanisms allowing distributed systems to be more robust.
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QCon London 2025: Distributed Event-Driven Architectures across Multi-Cloud Boundaries
At QCon London 2025, Teena Idnani from Microsoft addressed the rise of multi-cloud adoption, revealing that 89% of organizations embrace this strategy. Using the fictional FinBank, she showcased practical strategies to overcome latency, resilience, event ordering, and duplication challenges, emphasizing the importance of security, observability, and continuous team education.
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Kafka 4.0: KRaft Simplifies Architecture
Apache Kafka 4.0 ushers in a transformative era by adopting KRaft mode, eliminating the need for ZooKeeper, streamlining architecture, and enhancing scalability. With a next-gen consumer group protocol for improved performance and early access to point-to-point messaging, Kafka solidifies its role in modern data streaming. Elevate your data infrastructure with Kafka’s innovative advancements!