Java News Roundup: Value Objects, WildFly 41, TornadoVM, LangChain4j, Oracle AI Agent Studio
This week’s Java roundup for July 13th, 2026, features news highlighting: a reintroduction of Value Objects (Preview); the GA release
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From OTEL to SLMs: Distilling Frontier Model Behaviour from Production Telemetry
Transcript Ben O’Mahony: First thing I want to bring up is this quote. We shape our tools, and thereafter our
Airbnb Shares Architecture Behind Sitar-Agent Dynamic Configuration Sidecar for Kubernetes Services
Airbnb engineers have detailed the architecture of Sitar-agent, a Kubernetes sidecar that distributes dynamic configuration updates across tens of thousands