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Curated Tech Links: February 2026 Collection

A collection of interesting technical articles, tutorials, and case studies from February 2026 across various domains.

Java & JVM Ecosystem

Java 25 AOT Cache: A Deep Dive into Ahead-of-Time Compilation and Training

JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking

AOT Cache Benchmark

Simplifying Code: Journey from Reactive to Virtual Threads

Great Guide for CompletableFuture in Java

CompletableFuture: The Promises of Java - Video tutorial explaining the differences between thenApply and thenAccept methods.

Collections Corner Cases - Great Talk

Experiments with Project Panama

Spring Boot vs Quarkus Startup Time - Part 2

Quarkus vs Spring: Migration Experience

Feature Flags in Quarkus Applications

AI & Machine Learning

RAG Systems & Evaluation

RAG and Metrics with Quarkus and LangChain4J

RAGAS Metrics Documentation

AI Applications in Production

How Uber Implemented QueryGPT Text-to-SQL

Stream Processing & Data Engineering

Kafka Streams & Apache Flink

Kafka Streams vs Apache Flink: Pragmatic Comparison

Kafka Stream Microservice Sizing Recipe

Change Data Capture & Data Patterns

Journey to CDC with MongoDB

Stop Pressuring Your Referential Databases

Cloud & Infrastructure

Salesforce Migrated from Cluster Autoscaler to Karpenter Across 1000 EKS Clusters

Introducing UFowader - Uber’s Forwarder Product

From Static Rate Limiting to Intelligent Load Management

Scaling Mobile Chat to Millions: Architecture Decisions

Databases & Caching

Redis vs Valkey: A Deep Dive for Enterprise Architects

Development Culture & Practices

Corporate Herding: When Meetings Replace Thinking

February 8, 2026 ∙