This week's Java roundup for February 16th, 2026, features news highlighting: the second release candidate of JDK 26; an update on Jakarta EE 12; the February 2026 edition of Payara Platform; a point release of Apache Camel; and maintenance releases of Hibernate Search and Quarkus.

IoT has quietly moved from experimentation to critical infrastructure. Connected devices now underpin logistics, transport, utilities, healthcare and smart cities, and the decisions being made today will define how scalable, secure and resilient those deployments become.

While every consumer is aware of AI from finding it embedded into their daily digital lives, specialist implementations of the technology are beginning to emerge that build on the algorithms and methods developed for consumer AI, to produce solutions honed to industry-specific uses.

Industrial IoT projects often promise better efficiency and lower costs, yet the financial results vary widely. Some deployments result in immediate measurable savings, while others produce useful data but little clear return.

Rogue user showed them an excellent prank, which they put into production

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Kent" who told us he once worked as a field engineer and shares a story of the time a client dispatched him to a private datacenter to replace a failed system board in an HP server.

Much of the HR profession remains human-oriented, LinkedIn's report showed.

I've been staring at Jenkins configs for the better part of a decade. YAML indentation errors at 2 AM. Flaky integration tests that pass locally, fail in CI, pass again when you rerun them.

Harness today made generally available an Artifact Registry it has added to its portfolio of DevOps tools and platforms. At the same time, Harness also revealed it has added a Dependency Firewall to the registry that enables DevSecOps teams to enforce controls at the point of ingestion.

Platform Engineering Labs today announced a major update to its open source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform, formae, adding beta support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and OVHcloud.

Platform engineering now directly shapes how quickly organizations can ship software, adopt AI, and respond to change. The choices leaders make around culture, metrics, and platform ownership increasingly determine whether platforms become strategic assets or long-term liabilities.

The conversation around software quality has, in recent year,s shifted quite dramatically. We used to talk about testing as a phase that happened after coding but before deployment. That time is gone because the rapid rise of AI technologies has fundamentally changed how we build software.

Despite a burst of popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, the AR/VR industry now seems adrift as companies try to decide how best to use the range of devices available.

Other World Computing (OWC) sees disk drives returning to favor as NAND price rises and delivery shortages reduce SSD sales.

From prioritizing data management to having a governance-first mindset, the C-suite can use the AI bias mitigation strategies in this playbook to limit AI bias risk.

From refactoring codebases to debugging production code, AI agents are already proving their value. But scaling them in production remains the exception, not the rule.

For the last decade, the life of a site reliability engineer (SRE) has been defined by the 3 a.m. PagerDuty test. When the alert fires, a human wakes up, logs in, checks dashboards and frantically searches for a runbook.

Chiplets are a newer approach to chips in processors, where a smaller collection of chips is packaged together to emulate a larger die size.