Newsletter – Week 47, 2022

About the project: incremental bundler and build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust – including Turborepo and Turbopack.

Sui

Total stars: 2419

Last month stars: 733

Growth: 30%

https://github.com/MystenLabs/sui

About the project: Sui, a next-generation smart contract platform with high throughput, low latency, and an asset-oriented programming model powered by the Move programming language.

snarkOS

Total stars: 1705

Last month stars: 407

Growth: 24%

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS

About the project: snarkOS is a decentralized operating system for zero-knowledge applications. This code forms the backbone the Aleo network, which verifies transactions and stores the encrypted state applications in a publicly-verifiable manner.

The Move Language

Total stars: 1322

Last month stars: 259

Growth: 20%

https://github.com/move-language/move

About the project: Move is a programming language for writing safe smart contracts originally developed at Facebook to power the Diem blockchain.

Observations

If you are looking for a microservices orchestration framework you should take a look at the “Conductor” project from the Java category.
There are only two projects in the Java category that demonstrated grow more than 10% in October. All others have 8% growth or less.
If you are working with JavaScript or TypeScript and interested in Rust at the same time, the “Turbo” project from the Rust category might be interesting for you.
As usual blockchain and smart-contract projects are one of the leaders in the Rust category.

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Newsletter – Week 44, 2022

November 6, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK Updates, JDK 20 Release Schedule, GraalVM 22.3, JReleaser 1.3.0
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/java-news-roundup-oct24-2022/
Announcing Rust 1.65.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/11/03/Rust-1.65.0.html

Articles

Using the JFR Event Streaming API in Automated Tests – Sip of Java
https://inside.java/2022/10/31/sip070/
Java Thread Primitive Deprecation
https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/19/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/doc-files/threadPrimitiveDeprecation.html
Maven Central Search Retrieves Dependency Coordinates from Maven Central
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/11/maven-central-search/
How to deploy Lambda functions in Rust
https://blog.logrocket.com/deploy-lambda-functions-rust/
Learn how to deploy a Rust web server to Heroku
https://blog.logrocket.com/deploy-rust-web-server-heroku-axum-tokio-github-actions/
Rustdoc doctests need fixing
https://swatinem.de/blog/fix-rustdoc/
Structured error messages for HTTP APIs
https://blog.frankel.ch/structured-errors-http-apis/
Exploring Ghostwriter, a GitHub Copilot alternative
https://blog.logrocket.com/ghostwriter-github-copilot-alternative/
A Guide to Transfer Learning
https://serokell.io/blog/guide-to-transfer-learning
How new AI chief Irina Kofman is weaving artificial intelligence into everything Meta does
https://tech.fb.com/ideas/2022/10/meta-ai-chief-irina-kofman-artificial-intelligence/
Robots That Write Their Own Code
https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/11/robots-that-write-their-own-code.html

Videos

Staying JDK: Current in Production
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/java-upgrade-path/
GraalVM in OpenJDK and more JavaOne Announcements – Inside Java Newscast #36
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M5o3hUH09A
Stanford Seminar – Making Teamwork an Objective Discipline – Sid Sijbrandij CEO & Chairman of GitLab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VowMdZYvh0Q
Webinar – Web3 Considered: Possible Futures for Decentralization and Digital Ownership
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DhXHubx6YM
The Best AI Articles in October 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmWhtwz0ioc
eDiffi: Higher Quality and Fidelity than Stable Diffusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grwp-ht_ixo
High Fidelity Neural Audio Compression | Paper & Code Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV7bhf6b2Hs

Newsletter – Week 43, 2022

October 31, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JEP Updates, GraalVM Code to OpenJDK, Return of JavaOne
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/java-news-roundup-oct17-2022/
Generic associated types to be stable in Rust 1.65
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/10/28/gats-stabilization.html
Apache Kafka 3.3 Replaces ZooKeeper with the New KRaft Consensus Protocol
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/apache-kafka-kraft/
Sigstore project announces general availability and v1.0 releases
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/10/sigstore-project-announces-general-availability-and-v1-releases.html

Articles

Understanding java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (parking)
https://www.baeldung.com/java-lang-thread-state-waiting-parking
Pre-Allocated Methods for HashMap and HashSet – Sip of Java
https://inside.java/2022/10/24/sip069/
Do we need a “Rust Standard”?
https://blog.m-ou.se/rust-standard/
Get Started with Rust: Enums
https://serokell.io/blog/enums-and-pattern-matching
The HTTP crash course nobody asked for
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/the-http-crash-course-nobody-asked-for
Creating a minimal RESTful song request API using Rocket
https://imajindevon.hashnode.dev/rust-rocket-song-request-api
Adding a JavaScript interpreter to your Rust project
https://boa-dev.github.io/posts/2022-10-24-boa-usage/
Rust microservices in server-side WebAssembly
https://blog.logrocket.com/rust-microservices-server-side-webassembly/
Swift vs. Rust: Comparison guide
https://blog.logrocket.com/swift-vs-rust-comparison-guide/
Speed Up Presto at Uber with Alluxio Local Cache
https://www.uber.com/blog/speed-up-presto-with-alluxio-local-cache/

Videos

Inside Java | JavaOne 2022 Technical Keynote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEVap2Wt5go
The Future of Java is You | JavaOne 2022 Community Keynote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hUbmI0nplU
Thread Signaling in Java
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgOjklzlnFw
Boxes, Heaps, and Stacks – Tim McNamara – Rust Linz, September 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEE1GKMbtgw
Rust Before Main – Ryan Levick – Rust Linz, July 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8irLfXwaFM
Introduction to Tower – Stefan Baumgartner – Rust Linz, July 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z78_RnUPnpY
Rustberry Pi: Baby-steps in Embedded Rust – Lisa Passing – Rust Linz, September 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgC2HvBesms
Stanford Webinar – Cloud Computing: What’s on the Horizon with Dr. Timothy Chou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrBriiPmZHA
Google Web3 TechTalk Series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UViVx_CJgVw&list=PLSIUOFhnxEiBca3i9yRAaj_v2VL5_INIe
Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdiD-9MMpb0

Newsletter – Week 42, 2022

October 24, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Sequenced Collections, Spring 6.0-RC1, Apache Tomcat, Reactor 2022.0-RC1
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/java-news-roundup-oct10-2022/
BellSoft Introduces Alpaquita Linux for Containerized Java Applications
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/alpaquita-linux/
Two New Git Vulnerabilities Affecting Local Clones and Git Shell Patched
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/git-clone-shell-vulnerabilities/
Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2023
https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/gartner-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2023

Articles

Exceptions in lambdas
https://blog.frankel.ch/exceptions-lambdas/
Guide to Resilience4j With Spring Boot
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-resilience4j
ArchUnit Verifies Architecture Rules for Java Applications
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/archunit/
Why Rust?
https://www.rerun.io/blog/why-rust
Asynchronous programming in Rust
https://opensource.com/article/22/10/asynchronous-programming-rust
Magical handler functions in Rust
https://lunatic.solutions/blog/magic-handler-functions-in-rust/
Simplifying Developer Testing Through SLATE
https://www.uber.com/blog/simplifying-developer-testing-through-slate/
ConwaysLaw
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ConwaysLaw.html
Support Vector Machine Algorithm
https://serokell.io/blog/support-vector-machine-algorithm

Videos

IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2022 | Kubernetes Native Java
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P2sLy7NaFc
AI Image Editing with Text! (Diffusion Models & Imagic Explained)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbpPQ5kVJhM

Newsletter – Week 41, 2022

October 16, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Introducing OmniFish, Oracle Joins Micronaut Foundation, OpenJDK Updates
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/java-news-roundup-oct03-2022/
Amazon EC2 Trn1 Instances for High Performance on Deep Learning Training Models Now Available
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/aws-trn1-chip-deep-learning/

Articles

Venkat Subramaniam Brings a Contemporary Twist to GoF Design Patterns with Modern Java at Devoxx BE
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/modern-java-design-patterns/
Different test scopes in Rust
https://blog.frankel.ch/different-test-scopes-rust/
Single Pass Recursion in Rust
https://recursion.wtf/posts/rust_schemes_3/
How to Build a Machine Learning Model in Rust
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-machine-learning-model-in-rust/
The Story of Scalar
https://github.blog/2022-10-13-the-story-of-scalar/
How observability-driven development creates elite performers
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/10/12/how-observability-driven-development-creates-elite-performers/
Mussel — Airbnb’s Key-Value Store for Derived Data
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/mussel-airbnbs-key-value-store-for-derived-data-406b9fa1b296
Everything in its write place: Cloud storage abstraction with Object Store
https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/abstracting-cloud-storage-backends-with-object-store
Introducing WorkflowGuard: The Workflow Governance and Observability System That Oversees over 120,000 Data Workflows
https://www.uber.com/blog/introducing-workflowguard/
Bottleneck #03: Product v Engineering
https://martinfowler.com/articles/bottlenecks-of-scaleups/03-product-v-engineering.html
Understanding the US ‘AI Bill of Rights’ – and how it can help keep AI Accountable
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/understanding-the-ai-bill-of-rights-protection/
Data Poisoning: Is There a Solution?
https://www.unite.ai/data-poisoning-is-there-a-solution/

Videos

Java 19 Overview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBUP7DeyXsc
Devoxx Belgium 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Y6VqKVjuM&list=PLRsbF2sD7JVolUH45EkGXsT-3spU7cqnS
IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2022 | Should I Upgrade to Java 17?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wMdUtL_fSg
Rust – The Bad Parts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK1RSiKSJ9s
Rust makes cents (Speed is a FEATURE) [RUST-11]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dvf6kM70qM
Static Async Concurrency in Rust | cph.rs meetup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbGQGfEzg58
3D Renderings from Text! DreamFusion Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuU0VRIcjE
Ask Me Anything: A Simple Strategy For Prompting Language Models | Paper Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNe5QGOJykE

GitHub Trends – September 2022

October 14, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

Welcome to Java and Rust GitHub trends September 2022 edition. Let’s get started!

Java

StreamPark

Total stars: 2509

Last month stars: 537

Growth: 21%

https://github.com/apache/incubator-streampark

About the project: easy-to-use streaming application development framework and operation platform.

Eaglercraft

Total stars: 810

Last month stars: 106

Growth: 13%

https://github.com/lax1dude/eaglercraft

About the project: Eaglercraft is real Minecraft 1.5.2 that you can play in any regular web browser.

xManager

Total stars: 2762

Last month stars: 323

Growth: 12%

https://github.com/xManager-v2/xManager-Spotify

About the project: an Android application where you can manage and install all versions of the Spotify app.

Rust

SurrealDB

Total stars: 12918

Last month stars: 9157

Growth: 71%

https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb

About the project: SurrealDB is an end-to-end cloud native database for web, mobile, serverless, jamstack, backend, and traditional applications. SurrealDB reduces the development time of modern applications by simplifying your database and API stack, removing the need for most server-side components, allowing you to build secure, performant apps quicker and cheaper. SurrealDB acts as both a database and a modern, realtime, collaborative API backend layer.

CYFS

Total stars: 980

Last month stars: 489

Growth: 50%

https://github.com/buckyos/CYFS

About the project: CYFS is the next-generation technology to build real Web3 by upgrading the basic protocol of Web (TCP/IP+DNS+HTTP). It has a subversive architectural design that everyone brings their own OOD (Owner Online Device) to form a truly decentralized network.

Lapce

Total stars: 18637

Last month stars: 4765

Growth: 26%

https://github.com/lapce/lapce

About the project: lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust. Lapce (IPA: /læps/) is written in pure Rust with a UI in Druid (which is also written in Rust). It is designed with Rope Science from the Xi-Editor which makes for lightning-fast computation, and leverages OpenGL for rendering.

Ockam

Total stars: 2493

Last month stars: 520

Growth: 21%

https://github.com/build-trust/ockam

About the project: Ockam is a suite of open source tools, programming libraries, and managed cloud services to orchestrate end-to-end encryption, mutual authentication, key management, credential management, and authorization policy enforcement – at massive scale.

Observations

The “StreamPark” project from the Java category as an Apache Incubating project demonstrates good growth in September. It’s a single leader in the Java category in that month.
The “SurrealDB” project from the Rust category showed tremendous growth in September with more than 70% of starts added during this month with a total number of stars of more than 12k.
The Web3 fans will be definitely interested to look into the “CYFS” project from the Rust category.
Bored with your code editor it is a good time to try the “Lapce” project from the Rust category.

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Newsletter – Week 40, 2022

October 9, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: BellSoft Introduces Alpaquita Linux, GlassFish, WildFly, Hibernate, Tomcat
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/java-news-roundup-sep26-2022/
Spring Boot 3 Ships November 2022, Delays Java Module Support
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/spring-boot-3-jax-london/
Highlights from Git 2.38
https://github.blog/2022-10-03-highlights-from-git-2-38/
OpenAI Releases 1.6 Billion Parameter Multilingual Speech Recognition AI Whisper
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/openai-whisper-speech/

Articles

Rewriting the Modern Web in Rust
https://implfuture.dev/blog/rewriting-the-modern-web-in-rust#rewriting-the-modern
How to call a C function from Rust
https://github.com/vanjacosic/rust-ffi-to-c
Model an ALU circuit in Rust
https://www.superperfundo.tech/articles/alu-model
Comparing Rust and Scala
https://blog.logrocket.com/comparing-rust-scala/
If you need a TCP replacement, you won’t find a QUIC one
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/07/quic_tcp_replacement/
uBuild: Fast and Safe Building of Thousands of Container Images
https://www.uber.com/blog/ubuild-fast-and-safe-building-of-thousands-of-container-images/
Data Warehouses vs. Data Lakes vs. Data Lakehouses
https://serokell.io/blog/data-warehouse-vs-lake-vs-lakehouse
Beyond A/B Test : Speeding up Airbnb Search Ranking Experimentation through Interleaving
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/beyond-a-b-test-speeding-up-airbnb-search-ranking-experimentation-through-interleaving-7087afa09c8e
element: Walmart’s Machine Learning Platform
https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/element-walmarts-machine-learning-platform-b8a1f7870784
Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights/

Videos

AppCDS Autogenerate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQj4KM_-ZVI
Why companies are migrating from C++ to Rust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzK2maO89uw
Using Git on The Command Line Effectively
https://blog.sebastian-daschner.com/entries/git-command-line-tips
Death Of The “Spotify Model” by Gijs Meijer & Marcin Pakulnicki – GOTO 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3AHdo34gWM
OpenAI’s Whisper Model Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFOkMme19Zs
Make-A-Video: Text-To-Video Generation Without Text-Video Data | Paper Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmAJk2BD6WA
What You Should Know before Deploying ML in Production
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ml-production-tips/

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