TooMuchCoding Newsletter - Issue #24 (opens in new tab)

Hi! Well, well, well - looks like it’s been quite the week in the Java ecosystem and beyond. We’ve got Claude Opus 4.8 stealing the AI spotlight while making developers wonder if they should start updating their CVs, the Netherlands playing real-life cybersecurity whack-a-mole with 800 seized servers, and Gradle apparently decided that Java 21 is the new baseline because half-measures are so 2020.If you’re still running legacy JVM code, Stripe’s got a whole playbook on how to not die trying t...