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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.
By Olimpiu PopJava 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.
By Michael RedlichArticle: Fitness Functions for Your Architecture
Software, its size, its requirements, and its infrastructure environment evolve over time. Software architecture should evolve accordingly, to meet current and future operational and developmental requirements. Fitness functions are guardrails that enable the continuous evolution of your system's architecture, within a range and a direction, that you desire and define.
By Thomas MuchPresentation: Productivity Lessons in Moving from Big Tech to Scaling a Startup
Rachel Potvin discusses the key differences in developer productivity between startups and established tech companies. Drawing from her experiences at GitHub and Google, she explains the critical role of urgency, flexible team structures, lean metrics, top-down planning, and a culture of experimentation in driving startup success. She also shares practical examples and actionable strategies.
By Rachel PotvinGoogle Releases Open-Source Agent Development Kit for Multi-Agent AI Applications
At Google Cloud Next 2025, Google announced the Agent Development Kit (ADK), an open-source framework aimed at simplifying the development of intelligent, multi-agent applications. The toolkit is designed to support developers across the entire lifecycle of agentic systems — from logic design and orchestration to debugging, evaluation, and deployment.
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