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Java News Roundup: JDK 25-RC1, Spring AI, WildFly 37, Payara Platform, LangChain4j, Grails
This week's Java roundup for August 4th, 2025, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 25 and Grails 7.0; the release of WildFly 37; the August edition of the Payara Platform; point releases of LangChain4j, JBang and Hibernate projects; and maintenance releases of Spring AI, JobRunr and Apache Tomcat.
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Amazon EVS Offers Enterprises a New Path for VMware Workload Migration
AWS has launched Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS), enabling rapid deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation within Amazon VPC. Users can leverage existing VMware expertise without re-architecting, optimizing their virtualization stack seamlessly. With competitive pricing and full root access, EVS empowers businesses amidst VMware licensing changes, supporting efficient migration and modernization.
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New Rust Client Enables Building Safe, High-Performance Apps with Aerospike
Aerospike has officially released its Rust client to support high-throughput, low-latency applications interacting with its real-time NoSQL database.
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How Cloudflare Migrated Quicksilver to Multi-Level Caching While Serving Billions of Requests
The engineering team at Cloudflare recently shared how they transitioned Quicksilver, their internal global key-value store, to a tiered caching architecture. They described their incremental journey from storing everything everywhere to adopting a distributed caching system, improving storage efficiency while preserving consistency guarantees and low-latency reads at the edge.
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When Unchecked Autoscaling Generates a $120K Cloud Spend
In the wake of a staggering $120K bill due to unchecked autoscaling during a DDoS attack, industry experts stress the necessity of robust FinOps strategies. Key recommendations include capping resource limits and utilizing real-time alerts to prevent financial disasters. Balancing cost control with system availability is crucial to safeguard modern cloud environments.
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Grafana 12.1 Brings Built-in Diagnostics and Enhanced Alerting
Grafana 12.1 is here, elevating system reliability and alert management with features like Grafana Advisor for health checks, a revamped alerting interface, and trendline transformations for smarter data visualization. Enhanced dashboard interactivity and improved variable handling empower teams to scale efficiently. Experience the new era of Grafana on Cloud or self-hosted!
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Google Launched LangExtract, a Python Library for Structured Data Extraction from Unstructured Text
Google has introduced LangExtract, an open-source Python library designed to help developers extract structured information from unstructured text using large language models such as the Gemini models.
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DoorDash Introduces Config-Driven Badge Framework to Decouple UI Logic
DoorDash has launched a badge serving framework (BSF), a configuration-based system that decouples UI badge logic from application code. BSF allows the company to manage badges through backend configuration instead of client-side updates, enabling faster rollouts and more consistent behavior across platforms.
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OpenAI Releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, Open-Weight Language Models for Local Deployment
OpenAI has released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, two open-weight language models designed for high-performance reasoning, tool use, and efficient deployment. These are the company’s first fully open-weight language models since GPT-2, and are available under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.
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How Empathy-Driven Platform Teams Can Support Software Development
Building empathy and understanding for product developers help platform teams figure out where to draw the boundaries of their scope to provide better support, Erin Doyle mentioned in her talk about empathy-driven platforms at InfoQ Dev Summit Boston.
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Amazon DocumentDB Serverless: Auto-Scaling Database Solution for Variable Workloads
AWS has launched Amazon DocumentDB Serverless, an auto-scaling database solution compatible with MongoDB, tailored for variable workloads. While marketed as "serverless," it functions more like auto-scaling, charging from $30/month. Ideal for enterprises and SaaS vendors, it adeptly handles spikes in demand, particularly for AI-driven applications.
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JobRunr 8.0 Delivers Carbon-Aware Jobs, Kotlin Serialization and Dashboard Notification Center
The release of JobRunr 8.0 introduces carbon-aware job processing; support for Kotlin serialization; a new dashboard notification center; and a new annotation for reducing routine job creation boilerplate. Ronald Dehuysser, creator of JobRunr, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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GLM-4.5 Launches with Strong Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Capabilities
Zhipu AI has released GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air, two new AI models designed to handle reasoning, coding, and agent tasks within a single architecture. They use a dual-mode system to switch between complex problem-solving and faster responses, aiming to improve both accuracy and speed.
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.NET Aspire 9.4 Released with CLI GA, Interactive Dashboards, and Advanced Deployment Features
.NET Aspire 9.4 has been released as the latest minor version of the cloud-native application development stack, marking its most significant update to date. As reported by Microsoft, this release introduces a range of enhancements focused on developer experience, deployment automation, and deeper integration across cloud services and local environments.
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Microsoft Releases A2A .NET SDK for Building Collaborative AI Agents
Microsoft has released the A2A .NET SDK, a new developer toolkit that enables building AI agents capable of communicating and collaborating using the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol. With support for both client and server roles, the SDK allows .NET-based agents to interact with others across ecosystems, regardless of the underlying technology.