Wednesday Links - Edition 2026-03-04

JDK 26 G1/Parallel/Serial GC changes (10 min)🗑️ https://tschatzl.github.io/2026/02/26/jdk26-g1-serial-parallel-gc-changes.html Moving beyond Strings in Spring Data (8 min)🧵 https://spring.io/blog/2026/02/27/moving-beyond-strings-in-spring-data Optimizations in Spring MVC (5 min)🚀 https://spring.io/blog/2026/02/25/optimizing-spring-mvc Surprising += Cast (Rerun) (9 min)😲 https://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue333-Surprising--Cast-Rerun.html Avoiding the Next Supply Chain Disaster with GitHub and Gradle (12 min)📦 https://blog.gradle.org/avoid-supply-chain-disaster-with-github-gradle Cipher Downgrade: How a Tomcat Update Could Weaken Your TLS Configuration (3 min)⬇️ https://foojay.io/today/tomcat-tlsv13-cipher-configuration-spring-boot/ In defence of correctness (11 min)🛡️ https://blog.ploeh.dk/2026/03/03/in-defence-of-correctness/