Newsletter – Week 51, 2021

December 26, 2021 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Updates on Log4Shell, Spring Framework 6.0-M1, WildFly 26
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/12/java-news-roundup-dec13-2021/
JetBrains Releases IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3 with New Remote Development Feature
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/12/jetbreans-intellij-2021-3/

Articles

JDK 17 Script Friendly URLs
https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/jdk-script-friendly-urls/
The best way to write a custom Spring Data Repository
https://vladmihalcea.com/custom-spring-data-repository/
Contexts and capabilities in Rust
https://tmandry.gitlab.io/blog/posts/2021-12-21-context-capabilities/
Thread Safety in C++ and Rust
https://blog.reverberate.org/2021/12/18/thread-safety-cpp-rust.html
Documenting the Architecture of Your Projects With the C4 Model
https://dzone.com/articles/c4-model-zup-open-source
Best practices for writing code comments
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/23/best-practices-for-writing-code-comments/
Avoiding Technical Bankruptcy: a Whole-Organization Perspective on Technical Debt
https://www.infoq.com/articles/avoiding-technical-bankruptcy/

Videos

Java 2022: Predictions and Assumptions
https://jaxenter.com/java-2022-predictions-176324.html
Java and Ransomware – what’s in it for you? by Steve Poole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-AVjIMlaig
Spring Tips: @Controllers: All Together Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhNGqTwsGw0
Rust Modules – Explained Like I’m 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=969j0qnJGi8
Digital Transformations by Jan Damsgaard – GOTO 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K8df4y6HNI
Remotely Operated: Managing Scattered Teams
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/managing-remote-operate-teams/
Generate Text Descriptions for Images ! SOTA Image Captioning: ClipCap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQDrmuccWDo
Can Language Models Lie? | WebGPT, DeepMind Retro, and The Challenge of Fact-Checking in LLMs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGwRPep8U5c
What Can AI Really Do in 2021? AI Rewind + Highlights ft. Yuval Harari & Kai-Fu Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5slE_akZmc
Efficient Geometry-aware 3D Generative Adversarial Networks | GAN Paper Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHIRRsnINGA

Newsletter – Week 50, 2021

December 20, 2021 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Vulnerability Affecting Multiple Log4j Versions Permits RCE Exploit
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/12/log4j-zero-day-vulnerability/
Log4J2 Vulnerability and Spring Boot
https://spring.io/blog/2021/12/10/log4j2-vulnerability-and-spring-boot
Java News Roundup: JDK 18 in Rampdown, JDK 19 Expert Group, Log4j2 Vulnerability, MicroProfile 5.0
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/12/java-news-roundup-dec06-2021/
Spring Boot 2.6 Improves Docker Images and Metrics, Version 2.4 Is EOL
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/12/spring-boot-2-6/

Articles

Going Beyond Java 8: Local Variable Type Inference (var)
https://dzone.com/articles/going-beyond-java-8-local-variable-type-inference
Six Features from Java 12 to 17 to Get Excited about!
https://www.infoq.com/articles/six-features-jdk12-to-jdk17/
Lombok Using @With Annotations
https://www.baeldung.com/lombok-with-annotations
How not to learn Rust
https://dystroy.org/blog/how-not-to-learn-rust/
Validating JSON input in Rust web services
https://vinted.engineering/2021/02/15/validating-json-input-in-rust-web-services/
Rust in Production: Astropad
https://serokell.io/blog/rust-in-production-astropad
AWS US-EAST-1 Outage: Postmortem and Lessons Learned
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/12/aws-outage-postmortem/
Conform and monitor…with humanity
https://ably.com/blog/github-repository-audit-tool
Safe and Fast Deploys at Planet Scale
https://www.infoq.com/articles/uber-deployment-planet-scale/
How PayPal Uses Real-time Graph Database and Graph Analysis to Fight Fraud
https://medium.com/paypal-tech/how-paypal-uses-real-time-graph-database-and-graph-analysis-to-fight-fraud-96a2b918619a
MIT Researchers Investigate Deep Learning’s Computational Burden
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/12/mit-deep-learning-burden/
Choosing Storage to Support AI/ML Initiatives
https://www.unite.ai/choosing-storage-to-support-ai-ml-initiatives/
Using AI to bring children’s drawings to life
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/using-ai-to-bring-childrens-drawings-to-life/
5 AI and machine learning trends to watch in 2022
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/ai-machine-learning-trends-2022

Videos

Project Loom Brings Structured Concurrency – Inside Java Newscast #17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J2tJm_iwk0
IDE Setup For Rust Development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_iZEK6Rww4
Rust Linz, December 2021 – From 0 to no_std in one session by Marco Amann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu4MZmB0E28
3D Modeling at City Scale! CityNeRF Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swfx0bJMIlY
Are Bigger Language Models Better? | DeepMind Gopher and RETRO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaltsI1BCro
Neural Descriptor Fields: SE(3)-Equivariant Object Representations for Manipulation Paper Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr3BjVNuCzw

GitHub Rising Stars November 2021

December 15, 2021 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

A little bit delayed but GitHub trends for November are already there. So, let’s get started!

Java

QuestDB

Total stars: 7396

Last month stars: 2296

Growth: 31%

https://github.com/questdb/questdb

About the project: QuestDB is a high-performance, open-source SQL database for applications in financial services, IoT, machine learning, DevOps and observability. It includes endpoints for PostgreSQL wire protocol, high-throughput schema-agnostic ingestion using InfluxDB Line Protocol, and a REST API for queries, bulk imports, and exports.

Flink CDC Connectors

Total stars: 1515

Last month stars: 286

Growth: 19%

https://github.com/ververica/flink-cdc-connectors

About the project: Flink CDC Connectors is a set of source connectors for Apache Flink, ingesting changes from different databases using change data capture (CDC). The Flink CDC Connectors integrates Debezium as the engine to capture data changes. So it can fully leverage the ability of Debezium.

SmartTubeNext (STN)

Total stars: 3343

Last month stars: 414

Growth: 12%

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext

About the project: SmartTubeNext is an advanced YouTube app for Android TVs and TV boxes, free & open source.

NekoX

Total stars: 1244

Last month stars: 135

Growth: 11%

https://github.com/NekoX-Dev/NekoX

About the project: NekoX is a free and open-source third-party Telegram client, based on Telegram-FOSS with features added.

Rust

Anchor

Total stars: 1131

Last month stars: 336

Growth: 30%

https://github.com/project-serum/anchor

About the project: Anchor is a framework for Solana’s Sealevel runtime providing several convenient developer tools for writing smart contracts.

Chainsaw

Total stars: 997

Last month stars: 286

Growth: 29%

https://github.com/countercept/chainsaw

About the project: Chainsaw provides a powerful ‘irst-response’ capability to quickly identify threats within Windows event logs. It offers a generic and fast method of searching through event logs for keywords, and by identifying threats using built-in detection logic and via support for Sigma detection rules.

Solana Program Library

Total stars: 1009

Last month stars: 184

Growth: 18%

https://github.com/solana-labs/solana-program-library

About the project: The Solana Program Library (SPL) is a collection of on-chain programs targeting the Sealevel parallel runtime. These programs are tested against Solana’s implementation of Sealevel, solana-runtime, and deployed to its mainnet.

Solana

Total stars: 5866

Last month stars: 1018

Growth: 17%

https://github.com/solana-labs/solana

About the project: Web-Scale Blockchain for fast, secure, scalable, decentralized apps and marketplaces.

Helix

Total stars: 4588

Last month stars: 753

Growth: 16%

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix

About the project: A post-modern modal text editor.

Moonbeam

Total stars: 494

Last month stars: 71

Growth: 14%

https://github.com/PureStake/moonbeam

About the project: an Ethereum-compatible smart contract parachain on Polkadot.

Polars

Total stars: 3253

Last month stars: 361

Growth: 11%

https://github.com/pola-rs/polars

About the project: Polars is a blazingly fast DataFrames library implemented in Rust using Apache Arrow Columnar Format as a memory model.

Obversvations

QuestDB looks pretty interesting and worth trying.
SmartTubeNext is not a first-time included in monthly reports. Must be a decent application.
If you think about the creation of your own Telegram client, the NekoX could be a good point for you to start. You can build what you want on top of it or just use this project as an example.
If you are interested in smart contracts and the Solana framework, Rust is definitely a programming language you need to take a look at. Rust and Solaba are connected like father and son.
Chainsaw project might be interesting to cyber security experts and Windows administrators.
Don’t know how to exit the Vim then try Helix editor instead.

_{Title image by Niklas9416 from Pixabay.}