News

• Java News Roundup: More Log4Shell Statements, Spring and Quarkus Updates, New Value Objects JEP
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/12/java-news-roundup-dec20-2021/
• MicroStream 6.0 Supports JDK 17, Spring Boot and Helidon
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/12/microstream-storage-engine-6/
• AWS Announces Further Worldwide Expansion of Local Zones
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/12/aws-local-zones-expansion/

Articles

• Java 2022: Predictions and Assumptions
  https://jaxenter.com/java-2022-predictions-176324.html
• Where To Use the Underscore in Java
  https://dzone.com/articles/where-to-use-the-underscore-in-java
• Micronaut vs. Spring Boot
  https://www.baeldung.com/micronaut-vs-spring-boot
• Speed up Spring Boot Startup Time
  https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-startup-speed
• End of Year Learnings from Minecraft’s Migration to JDK 16 and Q&A with the Mojang Team
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/12/minecrafts-jdk16-migration/
• Mocking HTTP Services in Rust
  https://alexliesenfeld.com/mocking-http-services-in-rust
• How a Single Line of Code Made a 24-core Server Slower Than a Laptop
  https://pkolaczk.github.io/server-slower-than-a-laptop/
• Hello, youki!
  https://www.utam0k.jp/en/blog/2021/12/27/youki_first_release/
• The worst technology of 2021
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/29/1043061/the-worst-technology-of-2021/
• 2021’s Top Stories About AI Spoiler: A lot of them talked about what’s wrong with machine learning today
  https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-intelligence-2021

Videos

• Is Rust too hard to learn?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8ebRhx4hd4
• The Continuous Integration Approach to Engineering Leadership
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ci-engineering-leadership/
• TOP 10 COMPUTER VISION PAPERS OF 2021
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bHzytU1SeM
• OpenAI GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvv4N2nf-HU