The MM Software Engineer’s Insights #10 — June 2th, 2025

This issue brings you a curated selection of articles on the evolving tech landscape, development frameworks, security, AI, and personal growth.

Practical advice for engineers in these troubled times: “The most important thing is that the nature of the job has changed.”
Beware the Complexity Merchants: “Charles discusses how accidental complexity in software development hinders team velocity, creates unstable foundations, and diverts engineering talent from business value.”
“utm_” parameters in your web logs: “Wonder wtf “utm” stands for?”
Once worth over $1B, Microsoft-backed Builder.ai is running out of money: “Guess Builder.ai couldn’t build itself.”
The Who Cares Era: “A significant error in a supplement went unnoticed for two days, suggesting a lack of concern from the writer, editors, business people, production team, and readers.”

Build fast, production-worthy AI apps with Spring AI and Redis: “Redis is a native vector store for Spring AI, helping you build fast AI apps.”
12 Factor Apps with Spring Boot: “Set of guidelines for building cloud-native applications.”
Validation With Spring Boot: “When building a Spring Boot application, you will need to validate the input of web requests, the input to your services, etc.”
Kotlin and Azul: “Collaboration for Enhanced Runtime Performance.”
Strengthening Kotlin for Backend Development: “A Strategic Partnership With Spring.”
Spring Boot 3.5: “Delivers Improved Configuration, Containers, and SSL, Shortens Free Support.”
Announcing a new IDE for PostgreSQL in VS Code from Microsoft: “We are excited to announce the public preview of the brand-new PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), designed to simplify PostgreSQL…”

By Default, Signal Doesn’t Recall: “Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting.”

System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4: “Anthropic’s system cards are always worth a look, and …”

5 Simple Ideas That Can Change Your Life: “Learn how five simple ideas from “Negative Self-Help” can get you further in life than the search for happiness ever can.”

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