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Newsletter – Week 02, 2021

January 18, 2021 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Devnexus 2021
https://devnexus.com/
AWS Launches Amazon DevOps Guru
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/01/aws-devops-guru/
The White House Launches the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/white-house-launches-national-artificial-intelligence-initiative-office/

Articles:

Character#isAlphabetic vs. Character#isLetter
https://www.baeldung.com/java-character-isletter-isalphabetic
Stranger Things in Java: Constructors
https://dzone.com/articles/stranger-things-in-java-constructors
Going Beyond Java 8: Local Variable Type Inference (var)
https://dzone.com/articles/going-beyond-java-8-local-variable-type-inference
Difference Between JSF, Servlet, and JSP
https://www.baeldung.com/jsf-servlet-jsp
WTF is Rust? The Illustrated Notes
https://dev.to/egghead/wtf-is-rust-the-illustrated-notes-564p
XML parsing in Rust
https://simplabs.com/blog/2020/12/31/xml-and-rust/
Git Rebase vs. Git Merge Explained
https://reflectoring.io/git-rebase-merge/
Have the tables turned on NoSQL?
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/01/14/have-the-tables-turned-on-nosql/
Kubernetes Autoscaling Explained
https://dzone.com/articles/kubernetes-autoscaling-explained
What is end-to-end encryption and why it’s such a confusing term
https://advancedweb.hu/what-is-end-to-end-encryption-and-why-its-such-a-confusing-term/
6 Reasons to Start Managing Technical Debt in 2021
https://dzone.com/articles/6-reasons-to-start-managing-technical-debt-in-2021
The Journey Towards Metric Standardization
https://eng.uber.com/umetric/
What Is K-Means Clustering?
https://www.unite.ai/what-is-k-means-clustering/
Vikrant Tomar, CTO and Founder of Fluent.ai – Interview Series
https://www.unite.ai/vikrant-tomar-cto-and-founder-of-fluent-ai-interview-series/

Videos:

Whats New in Spring Boot 2 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgyO9C9zdrg
IBM’s Principles of Chaos Engineering
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ibm-principles-chaos-engineering/
Human Perception and Mixed Reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RbHrHNJeB0
Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #153
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I51DuprOb0o

Newsletter – Week 01, 2021

January 11, 2021 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

AdoptOpenJDK Welcomes Dragonwell
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/01/adoptopenjdk-welcomes-dragonwell/
Red Hat Releases OptaPlanner 8
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/01/red-hat-released-optaplanner-8/
Rust Asynchronous Runtime Tokio Reaches 1.0
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/01/rust-tokio-async-runtime/
Organizing Information About APIs With Google Registry API
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/01/google-registry-api-alpha/

Articles:

What is Garbage collection log, Thread dump, Heap dump?
https://jaxenter.com/heap-dump-gc-173352.html
Stranger Things About Java Characters
https://dzone.com/articles/stranger-things-about-java-characters
Java Proxies: From Dog to TransactionalDog
https://www.mitchellbosecke.com/post/java-proxies-from-dog-to-transactionaldog
Investigating MD5 overheads
https://cl4es.github.io/2021/01/04/Investigating-MD5-Overheads.html
Why using WebAssembly and Rust together improves Node.js performance
https://developer.ibm.com/articles/why-webassembly-and-rust-together-improve-nodejs-performance/
Holiday Hacking – Tracking my heart rate while playing Call Of Duty
https://jcdav.is/2021/01/04/Holiday-Hacking-COD-HR/
The 7 Virtues of Good Software Design
https://dzone.com/articles/the-seven-virtues-of-a-good-design
Consistent Core
https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-systems/consistent-core.html
SSL Offloading: A Solution For a Slow Website
https://dzone.com/articles/ssl-ofloading-a-solution-for-the-slow-website
The Journey from Monolith to Microservices at GitHub: QCon Plus Q&A
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/01/monolith-microservices-github/
How we rebuilt the Walmart Autocomplete Backend
https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/how-we-rebuilt-the-walmart-autocomplete-backend-10efe71d624a
Lessons learned in incident management
https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/lessons-learned-in-incident-management
Maximizing Developer Effectiveness
https://martinfowler.com/articles/developer-effectiveness.html
Top Machine Learning Certifications
https://www.unite.ai/top-machine-learning-certifications/
What is Gradient Boosting?
https://www.unite.ai/what-is-gradient-boosting/
Artificial intelligence in Europe: do not miss the boat again
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2021/01/08/artificial-intelligence-in-europe-do-not-miss-the-boat-again/
Five ways to make AI a greater force for good in 2021
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/08/1015907/ai-force-for-good-in-2021/

Videos:

Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast #151
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTWa-Z1UQwU

Newsletter – Week 53, 2020

January 4, 2021 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

What’s New in MicroProfile 4.0
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/12/whats-new-in-microprofile-4/
Github Removes All Non-Essential Cookies
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/12/github-cookies-removed/

Articles:

ArrayList vs. LinkedList vs. HashMap in Java
https://www.baeldung.com/java-arraylist-vs-linkedlist-vs-hashmap
Collections.synchronizedMap vs. ConcurrentHashMap
https://www.baeldung.com/java-synchronizedmap-vs-concurrenthashmap
How to Make Your Reviewer Cry Using Java Optional
https://dzone.com/articles/how-to-make-your-reviewer-cry-using-java-optional
Behavioral Patterns in Core Java
https://www.baeldung.com/java-behavioral-patterns-jdk
Modernizing application development with serverless and Quarkus
https://jaxenter.com/quarkus-serverless-173345.html
Viewing Contents of a JAR File
https://www.baeldung.com/java-view-jar-contents
Don’t use Protobuf for Telemetry
https://richardstartin.github.io/posts/dont-use-protobuf-for-telemetry
Generative vs. Discriminative Machine Learning Models
https://www.unite.ai/generative-vs-discriminative-machine-learning-models/
MLOps Tooling Landscape v2 (+84 new tools) – Dec ’20
https://huyenchip.com/2020/12/30/mlops-v2.html

Videos:

Continuous Resilience
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/hazard-analysis-model/
AlphaGo – The Movie | Full Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y

Newsletter – Week 52, 2020

December 28, 2020 / ilapitan / 1 Comment

News:

GraalVM Offers COBOL Support
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/12/graalvm-cobol/

Articles:

Stranger Things in Java: Constructors
https://dzone.com/articles/stranger-things-in-java-constructors
Sharing Troubleshooting and Debugging Experiences with Java and the JVM
https://blogs.oracle.com/poonam/troubleshooting-native-memory-leaks-in-java-applications
Best Practices: Java Memory Arguments for Containers
https://dzone.com/articles/best-practices-java-memory-arguments-for-container
Integration Tests With Spring Cloud Netflix and Feign
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-cloud-feign-integration-tests
Spring Boot: Customize the Jackson ObjectMapper
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-customize-jackson-objectmapper
How to Properly Deprecate APIs
https://dzone.com/articles/how-to-properly-deprecate-apis
Open Source Solution Architecture Patterns 0.9
https://dzone.com/articles/open-source-solution-architecture-patterns-09-rele
Top 7 Static Code Analysis Tools
https://dzone.com/articles/top-7-static-code-analysis-tools
Reviewing the Microservices Architecture: Impacts, Operational Complexity, and Alternatives
https://www.infoq.com/articles/reviewing-microservices-architecture-operational-complexity/
Disaster Recovery for Multi-Region Kafka at Uber
https://eng.uber.com/kafka/
Learning from incidents: getting Sidekiq ready to serve a billion jobs
https://tech.scribd.com/blog/2020/sidekiq-incident-learnings.html
🦀 Rust Reviewed: Is the hype justified? 🦀
https://dev.to/somedood/rust-reviewed-is-the-hype-justified-1pa1
A Simple Neural Network (<200loc, rust)
https://explog.in/notes/funnn.html
7 Types of Artificial Intelligence: Propelling the Technology Development
https://www.analyticsinsight.net/7-types-of-artificial-intelligence-propelling-the-technology-development/
Top 7 Amazing Artificial Intelligence Applications that Are Unfamiliar
https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-7-amazing-artificial-intelligence-applications-that-are-unfamiliar/
Calculus Books for Machine Learning
https://machinelearningmastery.com/calculus-books-for-machine-learning/
Bruno Zamborlin, CEO and Chief Scientist at Hypersurfaces – Interview Series
https://www.unite.ai/bruno-zamborlin-ceo-and-chief-scientist-at-hypersurfaces-interview-series/
Machine learning is going real-time
https://huyenchip.com/2020/12/27/real-time-machine-learning.html

Videos:

Culturing Resiliency with Data: a Taxonomy of Outages
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/uber-outages/
Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education | Lex Fridman Podcast #148
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzMVEbs8Zz0

Newsletter – Week 51, 2020

December 21, 2020 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Half of 4 Million Public Docker Hub Images Found to Have Critical Vulnerabilities
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/12/dockerhub-image-vulnerabilities/
In a first, Air Force uses AI on military jet
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/16/air-force-artificial-intelligence/
Top 100 academic institutions in artificial intelligence
https://www.natureindex.com/supplements/nature-index-2020-ai/tables/academic

Articles:

Comparing Doubles in Java
https://www.baeldung.com/java-comparing-doubles
Top 40 Questions for a Spring Framework Interview
https://dzone.com/articles/top-40-questions-for-a-spring-framework-interview
The Principles of Planning and Implementing Microservices
https://dzone.com/articles/implementing-microservices-the-foundations
Microservice Architecture and its 10 Most Important Design Patterns
https://towardsdatascience.com/microservice-architecture-and-its-10-most-important-design-patterns-824952d7fa41
Kafka as a storage system
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2020/kafka-as-a-storage-system.html
Application Level Encryption for Software Architects
https://www.infoq.com/articles/ale-software-architects/
Apple’s M1 Chip Benchmarks focused on the real-world programming
https://tech.ssut.me/apple-m1-chip-benchmarks-focused-on-the-real-world-programming/
A day in the life of AI
https://www.raconteur.net/infographics/a-day-in-the-life-of-ai/
What Is Meta-Learning in Machine Learning?
https://machinelearningmastery.com/meta-learning-in-machine-learning/
ONE Tech’s 2021 Predictions on Data Science and AI
https://www.unite.ai/one-techs-2021-predictions-on-data-science-and-ai/
Beyond Limit’s 2021 Predictions on Cognitive AI & Knowledge Democratization
https://www.unite.ai/beyond-limits-2021-predictions-on-cognitive-ai-knowledge-democratization/

Videos:

The More You Know: A Guide to Understanding Your Systems
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/twilio-template-chaos-engineering/
AWS re:Invent 2020 – Machine Learning Keynote with Swami Sivasubramanian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDysgCvRqY

Newsletter – Week 50, 2020

December 15, 2020 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Don’t Panic: Kubernetes and Docker
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/12/02/dont-panic-kubernetes-and-docker/
What’s New in Maven 4
https://maarten.mulders.it/2020/11/whats-new-in-maven-4/

Articles:

Functional Programming Patterns With Java 8
https://dzone.com/articles/functional-programming-patterns-with-java-8
Keeping Your Java Applications Secure
https://jaxenter.com/java-secure-173147.html
Jakarta EE 9 is here: “The Jakarta EE community is now in the driver seat of further innovation”
https://jaxenter.com/jakarta-ee-9-is-here-the-jakarta-ee-community-is-now-in-the-driver-seat-of-further-innovation-173554.html
Why Rust is meant to replace C
https://evrone.com/rust-vs-c
mvnd: Maven’s Speed Daemon, a Conversation with Peter Palaga and Guillaume Nodet
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/12/mvnd-mavens-speed-daemon/
Some Clean Code Best Practices
https://dzone.com/articles/clean-code-best-practices-1
How do you test your tests?
https://engineering.fb.com/2020/12/10/developer-tools/probabilistic-flakiness/
The Challenges of End-to-End Testing of Microservices
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/12/end-to-end-testing-microservices/
DataHub: Popular metadata architectures explained
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2020/datahub-popular-metadata-architectures-explained
The journey of metadata at PayPal
https://medium.com/paypal-engineering/the-journey-of-metadata-at-paypal-c374ac66e2e6
Scaling Cache Infrastructure at Pinterest
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/scaling-cache-infrastructure-at-pinterest-422d6d294ece
How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 2)
https://netflixtechblog.com/how-netflix-scales-its-api-with-graphql-federation-part-2-bbe71aaec44a
No Code Workflow Orchestrator for Building Batch & Streaming Pipelines at Scale
https://eng.uber.com/no-code-workflow-orchestrator/
8 Leading Women In The Field Of AI
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2020/12/13/8-leading-women-in-the-field-of-ai/
Classification, regression, and prediction — what’s the difference?
https://towardsdatascience.com/classification-regression-and-prediction-whats-the-difference-5423d9efe4ec
WIDeText: A Multimodal Deep Learning Framework
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/widetext-a-multimodal-deep-learning-framework-31ce2565880c

Videos:

Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #144
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9AbECvRt20

Newsletter – Week 49, 2020

December 7, 2020 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Spain to invest $720M in artificial intelligence
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/spain-to-invest-720m-in-artificial-intelligence/2063555
A leading AI ethics researcher says she’s been fired from Google
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/03/1013065/google-ai-ethics-lead-timnit-gebru-fired/

Articles:

Digital Certificate: How to Import .cer File into Truststore File
https://www.baeldung.com/import-cer-file-into-truststore
How to Access an Iteration Counter in a For Each Loop
https://www.baeldung.com/java-foreach-counter
Creating a Generic Array in Java
https://www.baeldung.com/java-generic-array
Java Concurrency Evolution
https://dzone.com/articles/java-concurrency-evolution
Why IntelliJ IDEA Is the Best for Java Development
https://dzone.com/articles/why-intellij-idea-is-the-best-for-java-development
References in Rust
https://hashrust.com/blog/references-in-rust/
Understanding Partial Moves in Rust
https://whileydave.com/2020/11/30/understanding-partial-moves-in-rust/
Why scientists are turning to Rust
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03382-2
Monitoring Microservices the Right Way
https://www.infoq.com/articles/microservice-monitoring-right-way/
Data Mesh Principles and Logical Architecture
https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-mesh-principles.html
Remote work challenges as a team lead
https://arnoldgalovics.com/remote-work-challenges-as-a-team-lead/
Three ‘success’ metrics for software development
https://jaxenter.com/success-software-development-173540.html
2020’s Top AI & Machine Learning Research Papers
https://www.topbots.com/ai-machine-learning-research-papers-2020/
What Is Natural Language Understanding?
https://www.unite.ai/what-is-natural-language-understanding/
How to Manually Optimize Neural Network Models
https://machinelearningmastery.com/manually-optimize-neural-networks/
Machine learning models that act on encrypted data
https://www.amazon.science/blog/machine-learning-models-that-act-on-encrypted-data

Videos:

GOTO 2020 – The Coaching Leader & Architect by Roy Osherove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN_xMlR15hw
GOTO 2020 – Q4 – Are You Keeping Hosts Up to Date with the Latest Security Releases? by Liz Rice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGR205F4sEM
Lessons from Incident Management and Postmortems at Atlassian
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/incident-management-post-mortem-atlassian/
DeepMind solves protein folding | AlphaFold 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7wJDJ56c88

Newsletter – Week 48, 2020

November 29, 2020 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

What We Know about Java 16 and 17 So Far
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/11/java16-so-far/
Oracle JRE and JDK Cryptographic Roadmap
https://java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html
Apple’s ML Compute Framework Accelerates TensorFlow Training
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/11/apple-tensorflow-acceleration/

Articles:

Most commonly available JDKs
https://blog.frankel.ch/common-jdks/
LJV: What We Can Learn From Java Data Structures Visualization
https://dzone.com/articles/what-can-we-learn-from-java-data-structures-visual
Test Your Spring MVC Controller with the WebTestClient and MockMvc
https://rieckpil.de/test-your-spring-mvc-controller-with-webtestclient-against-mockmvc/
DispatcherServlet and web.xml in Spring Boot
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-dispatcherservlet-web-xml
Top 13 Benefits of CI/CD You Should Not Ignore
https://dzone.com/articles/top-13-benefits-of-cicd-you-should-not-ignore
Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/why-aws-loves-rust-and-how-wed-like-to-help/
Moving BBC Online to the cloud
https://medium.com/bbc-design-engineering/moving-bbc-online-to-the-cloud-afdfb7c072ff
Harjinder Sandhu, PhD, Founder and CEO, Saykara – Interview Series
https://www.unite.ai/harjinder-sandhu-phd-founder-and-ceo-saykara-interview-series/

Videos:

GOTO 2020 – Memory Efficient Java by Kirk Pepperdine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQEu1VsrG44
How Netflix Scales Its API with GraphQL Federation
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/netflix-api-graphql-federation/
Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology | Lex Fridman Podcast #141
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOReE-3EBhI

Newsletter – Week 47, 2020

November 23, 2020 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

JakartaOne Livestream 2020 Highlights Jakarta EE 9 and MicroProfile 4.0
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/11/jakarta-one-conference-2020/
OSGi Alliance to Transition to Eclipse Foundation
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/11/OSGi-EclipseFdn-Transition/

Articles:

Localizing Exception Messages in Java
https://www.baeldung.com/java-localize-exception-messages
New language features since Java 8 to 15
https://advancedweb.hu/new-language-features-since-java-8-to-15/
Functional Programming in Java
https://www.baeldung.com/java-functional-programming
Perils of Spring Boot Actuators Misconfiguration
https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/perils-of-spring-boot-actuators-misconfiguration-185c43a0f785
From Spring Boot to Quarkus
https://blog.frankel.ch/spring-to-quarkus/
A Cloud-Native Architecture for a Digital Enterprise
https://www.infoq.com/articles/cloud-native-architecture/
Solid Relevance
http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2020/10/18/Solid-Relevance.html
Yann LeCun’s Deep Learning Course at CDS is Now Fully Online & Accessible to All
https://nyudatascience.medium.com/yann-lecuns-deep-learning-course-at-cds-is-now-fully-online-accessible-to-all-787ddc8bf0af
Turning Non-Image Data into Images for Classification is Surprisingly Effective
https://towardsdatascience.com/turning-non-image-data-into-images-for-classification-is-surprisingly-effective-70ce82cfee27
Introduction to Linear Algebra for Applied Machine Learning with Python
https://pabloinsente.github.io/intro-linear-algebra
Historical Evolution of Artificial Intelligence: Analysis of the three main paradigm shifts in AI
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC120469
The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/18/1012234/training-machine-learning-broken-real-world-heath-nlp-computer-vision/

Videos:

Lead Times and Psychological Safety within the Five Ideals
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/five-ideals/

Newsletter – Week 46, 2020

November 16, 2020 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

New Relic Offers Real-Time Java Profiler via JFR
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/11/new-relic-jfr/
UK Goverment Looks To AI To Assess Possible Side Effects Of Covid Vaccines
https://www.unite.ai/uk-goverment-look-to-ai-to-assess-possible-side-effects-of-covid-vaccines/
Gartner Identifies the Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2021
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2020-10-19-gartner-identifies-the-top-strategic-technology-trends-for-2021

Articles:

Accessing Spring Boot Logs in Docker
https://www.baeldung.com/ops/spring-boot-logs-docker
Set JWT with Spring Boot and Swagger UI
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-swagger-jwt
A step-by-step guide for debugging memory leaks in Spark Applications
https://medium.com/disney-streaming/a-step-by-step-guide-for-debugging-memory-leaks-in-spark-applications-e0dd05118958
Getting Started with Okteto and Rust
https://okteto.com/blog/getting-started-with-okteto-and-rust/
7 Benefits of Microservices Architecture
https://dzone.com/articles/7-benefits-of-microservices-architecture
A Seven-Step Guide to API-First Integration
https://www.infoq.com/articles/api-first-integration/
The Reactive Principles
https://principles.reactive.foundation/
What’s the Best Multi-Cloud Strategy for Your Organization?
https://devops.com/whats-the-best-multi-cloud-strategy-for-your-organization/
What Edge AI & Edge Computing?
https://www.unite.ai/what-is-edge-ai/
Dagli: Faster and easier machine learning on the JVM, without the tech debt
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2020/open-sourcing-dagli
Dynamic Pricing to Sustain Marketplace Balance
https://eng.lyft.com/dynamic-pricing-to-sustain-marketplace-balance-1d23a8d1be90

Videos:

OpenJDK Projects Give Rise to Innovations in JDK 15 and Beyond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq77ngjzRbM
The 10 Equations that Rule the World – with David Sumpter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-81rDqPBrGs

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