I wrote a short post on learning the fundamentals of distributed systems, with a few suggested resources to read and a few suggested projects to try.

notes.eatonphil.com/2025-08-09-w...

"Towards a JSON API for the JDK"

New proposal on the core-libs-dev list for adding a basic JSON API to #Java. That would be a more than welcome addition, in particular considering the envisioned usage once member patterns will be available. Make it So 🤩!

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