News:

• A new era for OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 begins with the transition over to Red Hat
  https://jaxenter.com/openjdk-8-openjdk-11-transition-to-red-hat-158009.html 
• Scala 2.13 release candidate offers up new language refinements
  https://jaxenter.com/scala-2-13-0-rc1-157909.htm

Articles:

• JEP 230: A New Microbenchmark Suite for JDK 12
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/04/jep-230-microbenchmark-suite
• Variance in Java
  https://dzone.com/articles/variance-in-java
• Creating Annotations in Java
  https://dzone.com/articles/creating-custom-annotations-in-java
• What Are the Major Advantages of Using a Graph Database?
  https://dzone.com/articles/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-using-a-graph-databa
• Do You Have These Four Power Skills?
  https://dzone.com/articles/do-you-have-these-four-power-skills
• The AI Behind LinkedIn Recruiter Search and Recommendation Systems
  https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/04/ai-behind-linkedin-recruiter-search-and-recommendation-systems

Videos:

• Seven Security Sins: The 7 biggest security problems of agile projects
  https://jaxenter.com/seven-security-sins-agile-157966.html
• Containers Were Never Your End State
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/kubernetes-production-spring-platform-2018
• Reducing Risk of Credential Compromise @Netflix
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/netflix-infrastructure-security
• Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Research: advancing cloud computing together
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f42FiRhG7_w
• Data Science for Lazy People, Automated Machine Learning
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/automated-ml-assistant-ds
• Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) | MIT Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6rxFNMGdn0