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Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 46m

Full house in Rod Johnson session on building agents with Embabel.

Repo: github.com/embabel/emba... #DevoxxBE

Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 5h

Spring Shell running on the browser thanks to WebAssembly, cool demos by @fniephaus.com

Repo: github.com/graalvm/graa... #DevoxxBE

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Spring I/O @springio.net · 1d

📣 The Spring I/O 2026 CFP is now OPEN!

📅 Deadline: 9 January 2026
📍Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, Barcelona

👉 Submit your proposal now and join us on stage: 2026.springio.net

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Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 1d

30 years of Java.

#1 language in overall enterprise organizational use #DevoxxBE

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Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 1d

Hello Antwerp 👋 Hi #Devoxx

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Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 6d

Link to all three talks:

👉 Implementing Domain Driven Design with Spring: youtu.be/VGhg6Tfxb60

👉 Clean Architecture with Spring: youtu.be/cPH5AiqLQTo

👉 Spring Security Architecture Principles: youtu.be/HyoLl3VcRFY

Implementing Domain Driven Design with Spring by Maciej Walkowiak @ Spring I/O 2024

YouTube video by Spring I/O

youtu.be

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Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 6d

"Implementing Domain Driven Design with Spring" by
@maciejwalkowiak.bsky.social just became @springio.net's most-viewed talk, overtaking "Clean Architecture with Spring" by Tom Hombergs!

And the most-liked? "Spring Security Architecture Principles" by @garnier.wf.

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Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 7d

Spring Boot 4 is moving to Jackson 3 (already in M3).

👉 Check out the Jackson 3 Migration Guide: github.com/FasterXML/ja...

👉 Also useful, the OpenRewrite recipe: docs.openrewrite.org/recipes/java...

More insights coming soon in the official Spring blog post next week.

github.com

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Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 9d

Tried the new Sonnet 4.5 with Junie, it consumes considerably more quota than GPT5 and the quality gains aren’t clear enough, not worth the change as of now.

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Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 9d

The @springio.net 2026 website is coming along nicely and CFP will open soon.

What topics would you love to see at #springio26? 👇

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Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 10d

I want to connect with universities and professors who already teach Spring. If you are teaching Spring at a university (or know someone who does), 📩 please reach out, let's collaborate to prepare the next generation of developers.

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Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 10d

Spring is one of the most widely used frameworks in companies worldwide. Learning it, is a career investment and if you master Spring + AI (wink wink, Spring AI), you are not just another dev.

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Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 10d

AI is reshaping the entry-level job market.

Some junior roles might be disappearing but on the other hand, companies are desperate to add AI into their systems and workflows. And I believe that is a shortcut for new grads.

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Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 14d

It's running quite smoothly and it's easy to configure: docs.github.com/en/actions/h...

Adding self-hosted runners - GitHub Docs

You can add a self-hosted runner to a repository, an organization, or an enterprise.

docs.github.com

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Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 14d

I’ve been setting up GitHub self-hosted runners lately to execute jobs from GH Actions.

My current client has many security and compliance requirements, this allows having full control over the environment, using any hardware, lower costs and even accessing resources behind a VPN.

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Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 22d

You can learn 100 JavaScript frameworks…
or you can learn Java and Spring once, and it’ll pay you back for years. 💚

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Mark Reinhold @mreinhold.org · 23d

Java 25 / JDK 25: General Availability: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jd...

Features: openjdk.org/projects/jdk...

Downloads: jdk.java.net/25/

#Java25 #JDK25 #OpenJDK #Java

Java 25 / JDK 25: General Availability

mail.openjdk.org

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rstoyanchev.bsky.social @rstoyanchev.bsky.social · 23d

This week's instalment of the Road to GA series, "API Versioning in Spring", is now live spring.io/blog/2025/09... #SpringFramework #REST #Versioning

API Versioning in Spring

Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

spring.io

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Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 23d

Still on Java 17 and planning to upgrade?
☕️ Skip 21 and go straight to 25.

Java 25 provides memory efficiency gains and garbage collection improvements with zero code changes. Align it with your Spring Framework 7 / Spring Boot 4 upgrade.

Strong recommendation by Juergen Hoeller.

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Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 24d

Don't miss the Java 25 launch tomorrow: dev.java/community/ja...

Java 25 Launch Stream - Dev.java

dev.java

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Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 24d

Big week 👇

☕️ Java 25 (Tue 16)
🍃 Spring Boot 4.0.0-M3 (Thu 18, last milestone!)

The next gen of Spring Boot is here 🚀 When do you plan to start testing it?

- M3 (this week)
- RC1 (23rd October)
- GA (20th November)

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Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 27d

Indeed, I'm not suggesting getting rid of XML in the documentation, just to first show the modern usages and configuration, here's the issue for more context: github.com/spring-proje...

Revamp documentation to prioritize Java/Annotation-Based configuration over XML · Issue #35446 · spring-projects/spring-framework

The current reference documentation shows XML configuration as the primary configuration style in some sections. While XML is still supported, it has not been the mainstream choice for more than a ...

github.com

Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 27d

You might like (or dislike) Spring’s explicit class names, that’s fair. But naming conventions aside, there’s no doubt it's a well designed framework with great quality of code.

BTW, I'm far from new and I do like the explicit long names :)

Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 27d

"Hello, AI" is the new "Hello, World"

Sergi Almar @sergialmar.com · 28d

More info: spring.io/blog/2025/09...

Spring Framework 7.0.0-M9 available now

Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

spring.io

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