This week's Java roundup for July 20th, 2026, features news highlighting: two JEPs proposed to target for JDK 28; new JEPs 540 and 541, Simple JSON API (Incubator) and Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal, respectively; the July 2026 Critical Patch Update; the GA release of E…
Johannes Schickling explores how he moved beyond the traditional three-tier web stack to a local-first approach. He shares his experience transitioning from Prisma to developing Overtone—a music curation app leveraging client-side event sourcing and SQLite. The discussion highlig…
Elena van Engelen discusses how to eliminate serverless vendor lock-in without sacrificing native cloud capabilities. She explains how to structure FaaS applications using Clean Architecture, Spring Cloud Function, and Gradle modules to isolate business logic. Finally, she shares…
Traditional API gateways assume deterministic services and simple schemas - assumptions agentic AI breaks. Discover why enterprise engineering leaders are adopting AI Gateways as an evolutionary architecture seam. Centralize guardrails, model routing, agent identity, action polic…
Netflix has described the production lessons behind bringing LLM inference into its internal serving platform, including the challenges of supporting different model sizes, hardware requirements, and rapidly evolving inference engines. By Matt Foster
TanStack Table V9 is a beta release of a headless UI library for creating tables in various JavaScript frameworks. It features improved state management, memory usage, and extensibility. The notable change is an opt-in feature model, allowing developers to load only necessary com…
An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud Fascinating investigation by Matt Lenhard into the market that has grown up around reselling LLM tokens at a discount by pooling API keys from various sources. This looks to be mostly a thing in China. Reseller…