142nd airhacks tv: Agent zSmith, Connection Pools in Clouds, Zero Dependencies News

Checkout: "Faster, Better, Cleaner Java Development with Agentic LLMs, 26 February 2026" 👉 https://airhacks.live workshops.

https://airhacks.tv​ - the monthly (first Monday of the month, 8pm CET/CEST) Questions and Answers live streaming show. The live dates are also announced on: https://adambien.blog​ and https://meetup.com/airhacks

This episode of airhacks.tv covers:

"Zero dependencies tools aggregator launched, ZScript project for small utilities like Zcopy/Zmove/Zmakedir, Java 25 integrated with Apple Shortcuts for automation, Agent Smith uses Anthropic Claude API with tool support, Red Hat VS Code extension preferred over Oracle's for IDE features like go-to-unit-tests, connection pool sizing depends on deployment model (single instance/cluster/serverless), Lambda has 1000 instance default limit per account, RDS proxy enables connection multiplexing for serverless, Maven is twice as fast as Gradle for simple applications, ZBuilder compiles projects in 500ms, AirHacks community reached super organizer status, December workshop had 50 attendees (record), web components workshop planned for summer, Glassfish is back with OmniFish support, CDI has replaced EJBs, GraalVM decoupling from Java cadence discussed"

https://adambien.blog/roller/agent_zs...

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