🛠️ 2025-11-17 Tech Update Summary

🔹 Kubernetes - Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know

The tech blog post discusses the upcoming retirement of Ingress NGINX to ensure the safety and security of the Kubernetes ecosystem. Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee announced that best-effort maintenance for Ingress NGINX will continue until March 2026, after which no further updates or bug fixes will be released. Existing deployments and installation artifacts will remain functional and available. Users are advised to migrate to alternatives, such as the Gateway API, a modern replacement for Ingress.

Ingress NGINX, an early example of an Ingress controller, became popular due to its flexibility and broad applicability. However, maintaining it has been challenging due to its complexity and insufficient support. Despite attempts to sustain it, the project will be retired in March 2026. Users are encouraged to start migrating to other Ingress controllers or the Gateway API. The post acknowledges the contributions of Ingress NGINX maintainers and emphasizes the importance of transitioning to maintain security and functionality. 👉 Read more

🔹 Spring Boot - Spring Data 2025.0.6 and 2024.1.12 released

The blog post announces the release of Spring Data versions 2025.0.6 and 2024.1.12, which include dependency upgrades and bug fixes. These updates will be integrated into the upcoming Spring Boot releases within a week. The post provides details and documentation links for various Spring Data modules, including Spring Data Commons, JPA, MongoDB, Neo4j, KeyValue, Apache Cassandra, LDAP, REST, Redis, Elasticsearch, Couchbase, and Relational, highlighting their respective version changes. 👉 Read more

🔹 Docker - Making the Most of Your Docker Hardened Images Trial – Part 1

The blog post “Making the Most of Your Docker Hardened Images Trial – Part 1” discusses the importance of using secure, production-ready container base images to enhance application security. It emphasizes that vulnerabilities in base images can compromise the security of all services built on them. Docker Hardened Images are designed to mitigate this risk by providing continuously-maintained, minimal base images focused on security. These images are stripped of unnecessary packages and proactively patched to ensure a secure foundation for application development. 👉 Read more

🔹 Java - Beyond the Vector API - A Quest for a Lower Level API #JVMLS

The blog post discusses the evolution and limitations of the Vector API in balancing cross-platform functionality with performance. The API had to sacrifice some capabilities, making it unsuitable for certain vectorized algorithms that require specific hardware features. However, advancements in Project Panama, particularly with the Foreign Function & Memory API and jextract, present new opportunities to enhance Java’s hardware interaction. The post explores the development of the Vector API and introduces a new approach for accessing individual machine code instructions from Java, termed “hardware intrinsics” API. This new API complements the Vector API by providing low-level platform-specific access, broadening the Java Platform’s capabilities and simplifying implementations in the Vector API, JDK, and JVM. 👉 Read more

🔹 Golang - Go’s Sweet 16

The blog post celebrates the 16th anniversary of the Go programming language, highlighting its journey and achievements since its inception. It reflects on the language’s evolution, its growing community, and the impact it has made in the software development industry. The post also discusses future plans and ongoing projects to enhance Go’s functionality and usability. 👉 Read more