--- title: Best Red Hat Developer posts — January 2026 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Red Hat Developer posts from January 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/rhdev/best-of/2026/01 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/rhdev/best-of/2026/01 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Red Hat Developer posts — January 2026 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Red Hat Developer posts from January 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Red Hat Developer — January 2026 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/the-case-for-building-enterprise-agentic-apps-with-java-instead-of-python-qjfvsxqhy "The case for building enterprise agentic apps with Java instead of Python") Article Red Hat Developer · 34w The case for building enterprise agentic apps with Java instead of Python Java offers significant advantages over Python for enterprise AI applications in regulated industries. The JVM provides architectural stability through compile-time verification, mature security tooling with SAST and CVE management, and unified observability. Java frameworks like Spring AI and Quarkus with LangChain4j enable production-grade agentic applications while maintaining existing governance standards, reducing cognitive load on teams, and leveraging established Java expertise. Code-specialized LLMs also generate higher quality Java code due to strong typing and abundant well-structured training data. 64 6 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/the-state-of-open-source-ai-models-in-2025-nbwk4nxtr "The state of open source AI models in 2025") Article Red Hat Developer · 35w The state of open source AI models in 2025 2025 saw significant growth in open source AI models, particularly from Chinese labs like DeepSeek, Qwen, and Moonshot AI's Kimi K2\. These models now rival proprietary options like ChatGPT while offering cost control and on-premises deployment. The landscape includes model families of various sizes (from 0.5B to 1T parameters) for different use cases: Qwen for versatility, Kimi K2 for agentic workflows and coding, OpenAI's gpt-oss for tool calling, and small language models for edge devices. Enterprise adoption is growing in regulated sectors requiring data sovereignty. Tools like Ollama, RamaLama, and vLLM make deployment accessible, from local hardware to production Kubernetes environments. 52 1 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-deploy-net-applications-with-systemd-and-podman-ln7jgwgic "How to deploy .NET applications with systemd and Podman") Article Red Hat Developer · 35w How to deploy .NET applications with systemd and Podman .NET applications can be deployed as systemd services using containerization. The .NET SDK's PublishContainer target creates container images that can be distributed via registries or tarballs. Podman quadlets simplify systemd service creation by generating service files from specialized container unit files. The Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.Systemd package enables proper integration with systemd for startup signaling, shutdown handling, and journal logging. Rootless containers use user namespace mapping to isolate container users, and host directories can be mounted with proper SELinux labels and ownership. 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