Simon Verhoeven
@simonverhoeven.bsky.social
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I strongly recommend watching the latest Marco show, which was hosted by @jetbrains.com where he interviews Gavin King, the creator of Hibernate, to gain some insights into its myths and ORMs in general.
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An interesting and entertaining watch alongside your favourite beverage on a Sunday morning: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9azN.... #RoadTo25
How to Upgrade to Java 25 #RoadTo25
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Please make sure that you're using a Servlet 6.1-compliant container if you're planning to upgrade to Spring Boot 4 in November. The early bird catches the worm.
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What do Minecraft, credit cards, and NASA have in common? #Java – and it has just turned 30. To celebrate, we made a short video on how far it’s come and what happens when you run modern code on Java 1.0. Episode 1 is live 🎬 youtu.be/SB8WW-PGClE
Java at 30: A Crash Course in its Evolution
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Not that it wasn't important before, but with the rising usage of AI tools, I wonder how many developers are regretting creating semantic debt.
For example, `i` over a meaningful variable name, magic numbers, et cetera.
Happy 30th birthday Java #30YearsOfJava . It has certainly been quite the journey.
Please do yourself a favour and watch this talk on the Philosophy of Software Design with John Ousterhout, there are so many useful nuggets in there.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz45...
The Philosophy of Software Design – with John Ousterhout
YouTube video by The Pragmatic Engineer
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The final #SpringAI release candidate has dropped with some great enhancements such as docker module runner support and MCP 0.9.0 integration.

spring.io/blog/2025/04...

I can't wait for the GA release at Spring I/O in May.
Using Spring AI 1.0.0 M7 Released
Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.
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One more day until @javaland.bsky.social ! I hope everyone has a magnificent time.
Another magnificent @graalvm.org for #JDK24 stream by @alina-yurenko.bsky.social and Fabio Niephaus showing us all the great enhancements at www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3a0... . Please do yourself a favour and also check out: medium.com/graalvm/welc...
GraalVM for JDK 24 Release Stream 🚀
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Some interesting weekend reading on #eclipsecollections, FOSS, patterns, et cetera thanks to Donald Raab.
learn.java was just announced at #javaone, a great place to learn more about the language!
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