Newsletter – Week 05, 2023

February 5, 2023 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 20 in Rampdown Phase 2, New JEP Drafts, JobRunr 6.0, GraalVM 22.3.1
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/java-news-roundup-jan23-2023/
Announcing Rustup 1.25.2
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/02/01/Rustup-1.25.2.html
GraalVM Native Image on RISC-V
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/02/graalvm-native-image-risc-v/
Mockito 5 Supports Mocking Constructors, Static Methods and Final Classes out of the Box
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/mockito-5/

Articles

Rust Foundation Annual Report 2022
https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/rust-foundation-annual-report-2022/
40x Faster! We rewrote our project with Rust!
https://medium.com/@xpf6677/40x-faster-we-rewrote-our-project-with-rust-120b006c6abe
Pinning Rust async data types for memory safety
https://blog.logrocket.com/pinning-rust-async-data-types-memory-safety/
Ordering Numbers, How Hard Can It Be?
https://orlp.net/blog/ordering-numbers/
Asynchronous computing at Meta: Overview and learnings
https://engineering.fb.com/2023/01/31/production-engineering/meta-asynchronous-computing/
Exclusive Q&A: John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence
https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-different-path-to-artificial-general-intelligence/
AI models spit out photos of real people and copyrighted images
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/03/1067786/ai-models-spit-out-photos-of-real-people-and-copyrighted-images/
Real-time tracking of wildfire boundaries using satellite imagery
https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/02/real-time-tracking-of-wildfire.html

Videos

Java Modules in Real Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqnwQp1uHuY
Spring Office Hours: Episode 27 – SpringOne Essentials Recap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUJ-fcg3XII
An AI Better Than Most Musicians? The DALLE for music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTrYIGxOuKQ
Stanford Webinar – GPT-3 & Beyond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lnHHWRCDGk
AI can’t beat mathematicians – with Junaid Mubeen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5p5USQhEyY

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Newsletter – Week 04, 2023

January 29, 2023 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Payara Platform, Liberica JDK Updates, JobRunr 6.0 Milestones
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/java-news-roundup-jan16-2023/
Kubernetes Java Client 17.0 Provides Support for Kubernetes 1.25
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/kubernetes-java-client/
Announcing Rust 1.67.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/01/26/Rust-1.67.0.html

Articles

The JVM Run-Time Data Areas
https://www.baeldung.com/java-jvm-run-time-data-areas
Java 21: Performance Improvements Revealed
https://minborgsjavapot.blogspot.com/2023/01/java-21-performance-improvements.html
Rust in 2023: Growing up
https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2023/01/20/rust-in-2023-growing-up/
The State of Developer Ecosystem 2022 in Rust: Discover recent trends
https://blog.jetbrains.com/rust/2023/01/18/rust-deveco-2022-discover-recent-trends/
Rust concepts I wish I learned earlier
https://rauljordan.com/rust-concepts-i-wish-i-learned-earlier/
Temporary Values, Borrowing, and Lifetimes
https://blog.vashishtha.in/temporary-lifetimes/
Learning by doing: An HTTP API with Rust
https://blog.frankel.ch/http-api-rust/
Using Rust with Axum for error handling
https://blog.logrocket.com/rust-axum-error-handling/
Platform Engineering 101: What You Need to Know About This Hot New Trend
https://www.infoq.com/articles/platform-engineering-primer/
API Evolution Is a Challenge. Could Contract Testing Be the Solution?
https://tech.ebayinc.com/engineering/api-evolution-with-confidence-a-case-study-of-contract-testing-adoption-at-ebay/
How You Can Have Impact As An Engineering Manager
https://engineering.zalando.com/posts/2023/01/how-you-can-have-impact-as-an-engineering-manager.html
Software Defines Tactics – War on the Rocks
https://warontherocks.com/2023/01/software-defines-tactics/
ChatGPT: A Game-Changer in the World of AI?
https://serokell.io/blog/chatgpt-a-game-changer-in-the-world-of-ai

Videos

Java Flight Recorder as an Observability Tool
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/jfr-observability/
ZGC: The Future of Low-Latency Garbage Collection Is Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJJ3CY1aE8
Go Native with Spring Boot 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcihvXdYszk
Rust 1.67.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlT_2WYU5XI
8 deadly mistakes beginner Rust developers make
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbR4ECFIckg
Release It! by Michael Nygard & Trisha Gee – GOTO 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIuBnLTMkfQ
Thinking Serverless: From User Request to Serverless Solution by James Beswick – GOTO 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUXDuxqTxmo
Edit Photos with Text Commands: Uncover the Mystery of InstructPix2Pix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJacROjI84s
Stanford Seminar – Why would we want a multi-agent system unstable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXzdn-Ig904

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Newsletter – Week 03, 2023

January 22, 2023 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: MicroProfile 6.0, Kotlin 1.8, Spring Framework Updates
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/java-news-roundup-jan09-2023/
Spring Cloud 2022.0.0 Delivers Updates to Sub-Projects and JDK 17 Baseline
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/spring-cloud-2022-0-0/
MicroProfile 6.0 Delivers Alignment with Jakarta EE 10 and a New Specification
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/microprofile6-delivers-alignmens/
Officially announcing the types team
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/01/20/types-announcement.html

Articles

Java 20: An Almost Infinite Memory Segment Allocator
https://minborgsjavapot.blogspot.com/2023/01/java-20-almost-infinite-memory-segment.html
Getting Started With Java Development in 2023 — An Opinionated Guide
https://www.morling.dev/blog/getting-started-with-java-development-2023/
Zero To Production in Rust book review
https://rusty-ferris.pages.dev/blog/zero-to-production-book-review/
Song search in Rust using OpenAI
https://gigapotential.dev/blog/song-search-in-rust-using-openai/
Proven Solutions to Five Test Automation Issues
https://www.infoq.com/articles/test-automation-solutions/
Scaling Adoption of Kerberos at Uber
https://www.uber.com/blog/scaling-adoption-of-kerberos-at-uber/
Introduction to Generative AI
https://serokell.io/blog/introduction-to-generative-ai

Videos

Java’s Plans for 2023 – Inside Java Newscast #40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sfB40FHfJE
Code 67
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKBgAgmGywc
Java Management Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVqfU4hFy2U
Sneaking By The Rust Borrow Checker – Interior Mutability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwupNf9iCJk
State of OpenTelemetry, Where Are We and What’s Next?
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/opentelemetry/
What is a mind? – with Philip Ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKZWF5amZMg

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Newsletter – Week 02, 2023

January 15, 2023 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Ideal Graph Visualizer Open-Sourced, TomEE MicroProfile 5.0 Certification
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/java-news-roundup-jan02-2023/
Announcing Rust 1.66.1
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/01/10/Rust-1.66.1.html
Security advisory for Cargo (CVE-2022-46176)
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/01/10/cve-2022-46176.html
Micronaut 3.8.0: Build Scalable Applications with the Updated CRaC Feature
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/micronaut-released-3-8-0/
Docker Desktop 4.16 Brings Docker Extensions to General Availability
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/docker-desktop-416/
Just, a New CLI for Spring Boot Applications
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/just-spring-boot-cli/

Articles

Java 20: Colossal Sparse Memory Segments
https://minborgsjavapot.blogspot.com/2023/01/java-20-colossal-sparse-memory-segments.html
Observability with Spring Boot 3
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-3-observability
panic! vs. error in Rust
https://blog.logrocket.com/panic-vs-error-rust/
How Good Documentation Can Improve Productivity
https://shopify.engineering/good-documentation-productivity
Beyond Git: The other version control systems developers use
https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/01/09/beyond-git-the-other-version-control-systems-developers-use/
Lessons Learned from Enterprise Usage of GitHub Actions
https://www.infoq.com/articles/enterprise-github-actions/
InfoQ Software Trends Report: Major Trends in 2022 and What to Watch for in 2023
https://www.infoq.com/articles/infoq-software-trends-report-2022/
K-Means Clustering in Machine Learning
https://serokell.io/blog/k-means-clustering-in-machine-learning
What is a Digital Twin?
https://www.unite.ai/what-is-a-digital-twin/
Personalized ‘Complete the Look’ model
https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/personalized-complete-the-look-model-ea093aba0b73
Self-serve feature platforms: architectures and APIs
https://huyenchip.com/2023/01/08/self-serve-feature-platforms.html

Videos

Java 20 – From ThreadLocal to ScopedValue with Loom Full Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjvGzBFmyhM
Kubernetes, Your Next Java App Server • Burr Sutter • GOTO 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwxAZWqt4I8
Rust Powered Polymorphism ⚡️ With Traits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHRNj5oubwc
Making a Presentation: Living with Rust long-term
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-stzTpzG2Z4
Demystifying Machine Learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTs5byssWUU
How to Get a Job in ML? An interview with the Director of Perception at Zoox: Ruijie (RJ) He
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8edrmsfVks
Where next for self-driving vehicles? – with Sarah Sharples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORrkHWu0Pqg

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Newsletter – Week 01, 2023

January 8, 2023 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Jakarta Data Initial Release, Micronaut 3.8, JReleaser 1.4, Gradle 8.0-RC1
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/java-news-roundup-dec26-2022/
GlassFish 7.0 Delivers Support for JDK 17 and Jakarta EE 10
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/glassfish-delivers-support-jdk17/

Articles

Is your Blocking Queue… Blocking?
https://www.morling.dev/blog/is-your-blocking-queue-blocking/
Get Started with Rust: Generics
https://serokell.io/blog/rust-generics
Create an API in Rust with SQLite and Rocket
https://blog.logrocket.com/create-api-rust-sqlite-rocket/
Rust + vim + code completion
https://medium.com/rust-sections/rust-vim-code-completion-b6a36a177340
A Skeptic’s Guide to Software Architecture Decisions
https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecture-skeptics-guide/
Blue-Green Deployment From the Trenches
https://www.infoq.com/articles/blue-green-deployments/
Graph service platform
https://engineering.grab.com/graph-service-platform
Command Line Observability with Semantic Exit Codes
https://developer.squareup.com/blog/command-line-observability-with-semantic-exit-codes/
What’s next for quantum computing
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/06/1066317/whats-next-for-quantum-computing/

Videos

Java Virtual Threads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kirhhcFAGB4
Secure Coding Guidelines for Java
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iEiKa1JmBU
Rust vs 7 Other Languages You Probably Haven’t Tried
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaPxH86885M

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Newsletter – Week 52, 2022

January 2, 2023 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Spring Cloud 2022.0.0, Introducing SourceBuddy, Jarviz and Just
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/12/java-news-roundup-dec19-2022/

Articles

Eclipse Migration Toolkit for Java (EMT4J) Simplifies Upgrading Java Applications
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/12/eclipse-migration-toolkit-java/
Why Picnic Picked Java
https://foojay.io/today/why-picnic-picked-java/
Practical use cases for Rust tuples
https://blog.logrocket.com/practical-use-cases-rust-tuples/
Optimizing your Rust code with closures: Environment capturing
https://blog.logrocket.com/optimizing-rust-code-with-closures-environment-capturing/
Securing a Kafka Cluster in Kubernetes Using Strimzi
https://www.infoq.com/articles/secure-kafka-cluster-strimzi/
Microservices Integration Done Right Using Contract-Driven Development
https://www.infoq.com/articles/contract-driven-development/
Books that made me think (as an engineer)
https://huyenchip.com/2022/12/27/books-for-every-engineer.html
ChatGPT Explains Why AIs like ChatGPT Should Be Regulated
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatgpt-explains-why-ais-like-chatgpt-should-be-regulated/

Videos

Java Networking Enhancements since JDK 11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPmeFv8t66E
Rust in 2024 (Niko Matsakis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuSiuySr6_Q
Rust Tests Itself (Kind of! 📚) [RUST-15]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIvKgSyvtxI
Practical Tips & Tricks for CI/CD Success • Zan Markan • GOTO 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oJXR-rEM5Y
Examining the Past to Try to Predict a Future for Building Distributed Applications
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/predict-future-distributed-applications/
Materialising artificial intelligence – with Wilfred G. van der Wiel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgJlMG1wLfI
AI Rewind 2022 – What Can AI Really Do? A Year in Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYRTzWHOQio

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GitHub Trends – November 2022

December 30, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

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

Java

Java Bubble Backup

Total stars: 75

Last month stars: 32

Growth: 43%

https://github.com/marchof/javabubble

About the project: this repository is the backend and data source for javabubble.org.

E-commerce_website-in-java

Total stars: 55

Last month stars: 19

Growth: 35%

https://github.com/jaygajera17/E-commerce-project-springBoot

About the project: this is a web application Java Based Beginner level project to develop an e-commerce website to Buy/Sell Food items. We use Spring Boot to build the back-end part.

YouTube Vanced

Total stars: 1190

Last month stars: 382

Growth: 32%

https://github.com/cuynu/ytvanced

About the project: YouTube Vanced & Vanced MicroG & YouTube Music Vanced Unofficial APK Download.

CATS

Total stars: 871

Last month stars: 111

Growth: 32%

https://github.com/Endava/cats

About the project: CATS is a REST API Fuzzer and negative testing tool for OpenAPI endpoints. CATS automatically generates, runs and reports tests with minimum configuration and no coding effort. Tests are self-healing and do not require maintenance.

AP Computer Science A – CodeHS

Total stars: 59

Last month stars: 7

Growth: 12%

https://github.com/31Carlton7/apcs-codehs

About the project: answers for all units of the APCS CodeHS course.

Rust

sniffnet

Total stars: 1828

Last month stars: 1640

Growth: 90%

https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet

About the project: cross-platform application to monitor your network traffic with ease.

Safetensors

Total stars: 307

Last month stars: 187

Growth: 61%

https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors

About the project: simple, safe way to store and distribute tensors.

Hurl

Total stars: 3014

Last month stars: 1019

Growth: 34%

https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl

About the project: run and test HTTP requests with plain text.

Ruff

Total stars: 3647

Last month stars: 955

Growth: 26%

https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff

About the project: an extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust.

git absorb

Total stars: 1822

Last month stars: 421

Growth: 23%

https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb

About the project: git commit –fixup, but automatic.

taffy

Total stars: 622

Last month stars: 123

Growth: 20%

https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy

About the project: a high performance Rust-powered layout library.

Observations

The “CATS” project from the Java category looks very interesting to try especially if you are involved in API development or testing.
The “sniffnet” project from the Rust category has shown extreme growth in November.
I personally found the “Hurl” project from the Rust category worth trying. It seems a very easy way to script HTTP communications and create test scenarios. It is like cURL but with assertions.
The “Ruff” project from the Rust category is a great example of when one programming language can help another. In this case, fast Rust code helps avoid mistakes in Python code.

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Newsletter – Week 51, 2022

December 26, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: GlassFish 7.0, Payara Platform, Apache NetBeans 16
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/12/java-news-roundup-dec12-2022/
OpenJDK Proposes Project Galahad to Merge GraalVM Native Compilation
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/12/openjdk-galahad-Dec22/
Spring Authorization Server 1.0 Provides Oauth 2.1 and OpenID Connect 1.0 Implementations
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/12/spring-authorization-server-1-0/
Spring Batch 5.0 Delivers JDK 17 Baseline and Support for Native Java
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/12/spring-batch-5-released/
Linux 6.1 Officially Adds Support for Rust in the Kernel
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/12/linux-6-1-rust/

Articles

Alternatives for instanceof Operator in Java
https://www.baeldung.com/java-instanceof-alternatives
Using Pattern Matching
https://dev.java/learn/pattern-matching/
When to Use Callable and Supplier in Java
https://www.baeldung.com/java-callable-vs-supplier
GraalVM Java Compilers Join OpenJDK in 2023, Align with OpenJDK Releases and Processes
https://www.infoq.com/articles/graalvm-java-compilers-openjdk/
Building a Command-Line Application in Rust
https://www.joshfinnie.com/blog/a-command-line-application-in-rust/
Build a real-time chat app with Rust and React
https://blog.logrocket.com/real-time-chat-app-rust-react/
Docs as Code: Mermaid inline diagrams
https://frehberg.com/2022/12/docs-as-code-mermaid-inline-diagrams/
Comprehensive Rust
https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/welcome.html
Automatically Rotating GitHub Tokens
https://shopify.engineering/automatically-rotate-github-tokens
Feature Engineering for Machine Learning
https://serokell.io/blog/feature-engineering-for-machine-learning
What’s next for AI
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/23/1065852/whats-next-for-ai/

Videos

Spring Office Hours: Episode 24 – Spring Cloud Data Flow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukd3mO51hd0
Rust 1.66.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnZ7Ai-JGic
Profiling Code in Rust – by Vitaly Bragilevsky – Rust Linz, December 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRMOIE_wAFk
Nine Rules for Creating Procedural Macros in Rust – by Carl Kadie – Rust Linz, December 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMLBBZBlKis
Beyond REST – Contract Testing in the Age of gRPC, Kafka & GraphQL by Matt Fellows – YOW! 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESM84C7QKl8
Team Topologies, Software Architecture & Complexity by James Lewis – GOTO 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izLg4NkJQO4
NeurIPS 2022 – interviews with AI experts and conference walk-through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RezLE5WzKuY
Disney’s new Face Re-Aging AI for Movies is Amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC03N0NFfwk