October 2 release series: smaller Java servers and native app improvements

[shai-almog]

Adds the October 2–8 weekly release series, led by A Smaller, Faster Java Server with a Spring-Style API. The parent compares local Linux HTTP startup, memory, throughput, executable size and compilation time, explains generated wiring and transactions, and introduces six scheduled follow-ups.

The follow-ups cover ParparVM optimizations, iOS tab-bar fidelity, smaller Gradle projects, enterprise tracing, desktop themes in browser apps, and release-quality gates. Includes seven 1024×512 JPEG headers, original tab-bar videos, screenshots, charts, diagrams and a downloadable benchmark reproduction bundle. Future-post links follow the publication schedule.

The HTTP comparison measures the lower-level Bench handler, separately from the Spring-style API walkthrough. Its source is pinned to measured revision 60c4f310. The self-translation chart includes all sixteen recorded machine configurations, and the workload chart retains cases where HotSpot wins. Transaction control flow is illustrative pseudocode; source links point to master.

Validation:

• Hugo future build, publication schedule and local links/media checked.
• All seven pages rendered at desktop and mobile widths; Mermaid, images and both videos checked.
• Gradle settings resolved release 7.0.274 and completed help with Gradle 8.14.2 / JDK 21.
• Eight Java snippets compiled; local relay authentication returned 401 for missing/wrong tokens and 200 for the paired example token.
• API and session-lifecycle claims checked against implementation and guide. Download scripts run outside the checkout; raw measurements remain byte-identical.
• Blog prose gate and git diff --check passed.

All native benchmarks were run locally. No native CI was dispatched.

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Blog prose gate

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Reviewed commit: 3c3d04af2a

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