Java, Kotlin and the JVM
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Today we are excited to release Kotlin 2.0 with a stable K2 compiler, which is multiplatform from the ground up, understands your code better, and compiles it twice as fast.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2024/05/celebrating-kotlin-2-0-fast-smart-and-multiplatform/
Gradle is very powerful tool but it comes with a price in the learning curve. Declarative gradle was introduced a year ago or so (https://blog.gradle.org/declarative-gradle). Last week the Gradle CTO chat a bit about the state of the art and the future of Declarative Gradle (https://youtu.be/xZRR71VtmGc?t=752)
We continue with Kafka today; New Relic is an observability vendor, and the article highlights the need for observability. Besides that, the article provides a good example of common Kafka issues depending on your producer/consumer patterns, which I found really interesting.

https://newrelic.com/blog/how-to-relic/tuning-apache-kafka-consumers