Newsletter – Week 08, 2022

February 28, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 18-RC1, Project Loom, Spring, Payara, Open Liberty and JReleaser Updates
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/02/java-news-roundup-feb14-2022/
Groovy 4.0.0 Introduces Switch Expressions and Sealed Types
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/02/groovy-4-0-0/
rust-analyzer joins the Rust organization!
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/02/21/rust-analyzer-joins-rust-org.html
Announcing Rust 1.59.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/02/24/Rust-1.59.0.html

Articles

The JDK Flight Recorder File Format
https://www.morling.dev/blog/jdk-flight-recorder-file-format/
Spring Security – Configuring Different URLs
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-security-configuring-urls
Provide an OAuth2 Token to a Feign Client
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-cloud-feign-oauth-token
How to use JNI’s RegisterNatives() method?
https://www.baeldung.com/jni-registernatives
An introduction to JobRunr, a distributed background job scheduler
https://jaxenter.com/jobrunr-introduction-176737.html
Analyzing unsized variables in Rust
https://poignardazur.github.io/2022/02/23/rust-unsized-vars-analysis/
Which Rust web framework to choose in 2022 (with code examples)
https://kerkour.com/rust-web-framework-2022
Sustainable architectures in a world of Agile, DevOps, and cloud
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/02/24/sustainable-architectures-in-a-world-of-agile-devops-and-cloud/
Spinner: The Mass Migration to Pinterest’s New Workflow Platform
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/spinner-the-mass-migration-to-pinterests-new-workflow-platform-997d9243f56a
The art of automating automation
https://medium.com/paypal-tech/the-art-of-automating-automation-17b32594a41f
What’s next for deep learning?
https://www.amazon.science/blog/whats-next-for-deep-learning

Videos

Leverage Java 17 New Features to Create Your Wordle Checker – JEP Café #10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5–tDQIMqhY
C++ RAII vs Rust OBRM – Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EcNkr6KFy0
AI Grammar and Pronunciation Correction in Speech!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIIc4bRf5Hg
Block-NeRF: Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesis | Paper Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_AqvJCcxXU
Webinar – Design & AI: Envisioning AI-augmented Products
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgVulzUl_c4
Yann LeCun: “A Path Towards Autonomous AI”, Baidu 2022-02-22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DokLw1tILlw

Newsletter – Week 07, 2022

February 20, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Payara Platform 2022 Roadmap, OpenJDK Drafts, Kotlin 1.6.20-M1, Gradle 7.4
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/02/java-news-roundup-feb07-2022/
Eclipse Collections 11.0.0 Features New APIs and Functionality
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/02/eclipse-collections-11-0-0/
Rust Survey 2021 Results
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/02/15/Rust-Survey-2021.html
Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
https://github.blog/2022-02-14-include-diagrams-markdown-files-mermaid/
HashiCorp Terraform AWS Provider Introduces Significant Changes to Amazon S3 Bucket Resource
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/02/terraform-aws-provider-s3/

Articles

System Logger
https://blog.frankel.ch/system-logger/
Troubleshooting Java Applications with Eclipse Jifa
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/02/eclipse-jifa/
Card Table Card Size Shenanigans
https://tschatzl.github.io/2022/02/15/card-table-card-size.html
A Rust match made in hell
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-rust-match-made-in-hell
Computing image filters with wgpu-rs
https://blog.redwarp.app/image-filters/
Rust and OpenCV
https://blog.devgenius.io/rust-and-opencv-bb0467bf35ff
Let’s Build a WebSockets Project With Rust and Yew 0.19 🦀
https://blog.devgenius.io/lets-build-a-websockets-project-with-rust-and-yew-0-19-60720367399f
Seven Ways to Fail at Microservices
https://www.infoq.com/articles/microservices-seven-fail/
12-Factor Containerized Microservices: Leveraging VMware Tanzu and the Best of Kubernetes
https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/12-factor-microservices-vmware-tanzu-kubernetes
Spinner: Pinterest’s Workflow Platform
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/spinner-pinterests-workflow-platform-c5bbe190ba5
FOQS: Making a distributed priority queue disaster-ready
https://engineering.fb.com/2022/01/18/production-engineering/foqs-disaster-ready/
Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix
https://netflixtechblog.com/rapid-event-notification-system-at-netflix-6deb1d2b57d1
Hodor: Detecting and addressing overload in LinkedIn microservices
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2022/hodor–detecting-and-addressing-overload-in-linkedin-microservic
What Is Explainable AI and What Is It Used For?
https://serokell.io/blog/xai-explainable-artificial-intelligence
Federated Machine Learning and Edge Systems
https://www.infoq.com/articles/federated-ml-edge/
Leveraging machine learning to find security vulnerabilities
https://github.blog/2022-02-17-leveraging-machine-learning-find-security-vulnerabilities/
This super-realistic virtual world is a driving school for AI
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/02/18/1045784/simulation-virtual-world-driverless-car-autonomous-vehicle-school-ai-cruise-waabi/

Videos

Building REST APIs with Spring Boot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_RLfOB7axQ
Spring Tips: Spring Native and MyBatis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWWq3ts9Tv4
C++ RAII vs Rust OBRM – Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnFaf-L_DfE
Why safe programming matters and why Rust – FOSDEM’22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jtPUOytWyU
DeepMind’s AlphaCode – Better Than OpenAI Codex?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw7IKOrS-Q8

GitHub Trends – Jan 2022

February 18, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

Let’s review GitHub trending projects for Java and Rust programming languages in January 2022.

Java

SeaTunnel

Total stars: 3022

Last month stars: 720

Growth: 24%

https://github.com/apache/incubator-seatunnel

About the project: SeaTunnel (formely Waterdrop) is a very easy-to-use ultra-high-performance distributed data integration platform that supports the real-time synchronization of massive data. It can synchronize tens of billions of data stably and efficiently every day, and has been used in the production of nearly 100 companies.

DSA-Bootcamp-Java

Total stars: 6169

Last month stars: 897

Growth: 15%

https://github.com/kunal-kushwaha/DSA-Bootcamp-Java

About the project: This repository consists of the code samples, assignments, and notes for the Java Data Structures & Algorithms bootcamp of Community Classroom.

AndroRAT

Total stars: 469

Last month stars: 58

Growth: 12%

https://github.com/karma9874/AndroRAT

About the project: AndroRAT is a tool designed to give control of the android system remotely and retrieve information from it. Androrat is a client/server application developed in Java Android for the client-side and the Server is in Python.

LSPosed Framework

Total stars: 3463

Last month stars: 410

Growth: 12%

https://github.com/LSPosed/LSPosed

About the project: A Riru module trying to provide an ART hooking framework which delivers consistent APIs with the OG Xposed, leveraging YAHFA hooking framework.

Signal Android

Total stars: 1923

Last month stars: 217

Growth: 11%

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android

About the project: Signal is a messaging app for simple private communication with friends.

Rust

rathole

Total stars: 2439

Last month stars: 2378

Growth: 97%

https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole

About the project: A lightweight and high-performance reverse proxy for NAT traversal, written in Rust. An alternative to frp and ngrok.

Dioxus

Total stars: 2405

Last month stars: 2213

Growth: 92%

https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus

About the project: Elegant React-like library for building user interfaces for desktop, web, mobile, SSR, liveview, and more.

foundry

Total stars: 1439

Last month stars: 517

Growth: 36%

https://github.com/gakonst/foundry

About the project: Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust.

Poem Framework

Total stars: 1090

Last month stars: 209

Growth: 19%

https://github.com/poem-web/poem

About the project: a full-featured and easy-to-use web framework with the Rust programming language.

TAURI

Total stars: 30043

Last month stars: 4523

Growth: 15%

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri

About the project: Tauri is a framework for building tiny, blazing fast binaries for all major desktop platforms. Developers can integrate any front-end framework that compiles to HTML, JS and CSS for building their user interface. The backend of the application is a rust-sourced binary with an API that the front-end can interact with.

Obversvations

The repositories with data structure and algorithms implementations always taking attention, so if you are interested in this area you should definitely take a look at the DSA-Bootcamp-Java project. Moreover, this is not only implementation but a whole learning course to get you to understand the topic better.
If you want to play with AndrRAT project, please see the desclaimer there. This project is for educational purposes only.
Android-related projects seem trendy this month in the Java category.
rathole and Dioxus projects demonstrated unbelievable growth this month (90+ %).
As it became a tradition when we review the Rust projects there is almost no way to miss any crypto/blockchain-related project across top trending ones.

_{Title image by wiggijo from Pixabay.}

Newsletter – Week 06, 2022

February 13, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JEP 423, Quarkus 2.7.0, Micronaut Serialization, JReleaser Early-Access
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/02/java-news-roundup-jan31-2022/
Azul Launches Java Cloud Compiler
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/02/azul-cloud-compiler/
Failsafe 3.2 Released with New Resilience Policies
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/02/failsafe-resilience-3/
Ensuring artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for health benefit older people
https://www.who.int/news/item/09-02-2022-ensuring-artificial-intelligence-(ai)-technologies-for-health-benefit-older-people

Articles

Get Current Trace ID in Spring Cloud Sleuth
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-cloud-sleuth-get-trace-id
Customizing Zuul Exceptions
https://www.baeldung.com/zuul-customize-exception
Log4Shell Defenses: Java Agents in Conversation with Contrast Security’s Arshan Dabirsiaghi
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/02/log4shell-contrast-security/
The simplest guide to error handling in Rust
https://kerkour.com/rust-error-handling/
Some mistakes Rust doesn’t catch
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/some-mistakes-rust-doesnt-catch
An optimization story
https://tinkering.xyz/fmo-optimization-story/
Top 10 Edge Computing Platforms in 2022
https://www.toolbox.com/tech/edge-computing/articles/best-edge-computing-platforms/
Metadata, not data, is what drags your database down
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/02/07/metadata-not-data-is-what-drags-your-database-down/
3 Innovations While Unifying Pinterest’s Key-Value Storage
https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/3-innovations-while-unifying-pinterests-key-value-storage-8cdcdf8cf6aa
Containers Landscape: Seen Through OCI and CNCF Standards Lenses
https://dzone.com/articles/containers-landscape-seen-through-oci-and-cncf-standards-lenses
An open-source tool for software security
https://news.mit.edu/2022/r2c-software-security-0210
An Introduction to Post-Quantum Public Key Cryptography
https://www.infoq.com/articles/post-quantum-cryptography-introduction/
10 Best Machine Learning Algorithms
https://www.unite.ai/ten-best-machine-learning-algorithms/
Data Distribution Shifts and Monitoring
https://huyenchip.com/2022/02/07/data-distribution-shifts-and-monitoring.html
DeepETA: How Uber Predicts Arrival Times Using Deep Learning
https://eng.uber.com/deepeta-how-uber-predicts-arrival-times/
Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy Will Play Crucial Role in Warfare, General Says
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/2928194/artificial-intelligence-autonomy-will-play-crucial-role-in-warfare-general-says/

Videos

Compiled & Tested Code In Javadoc – Inside Java Newscast #20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2cVOYuVs1U
Spring Tips: IO, IO, It’s Off to Work We Go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKfNoT07k_s
Let’s Talk About Foreign Functions In Java – FOSDEM’22 – by Deepu K Sasidharan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW69_AtAXzE
Create Realistic 3D Models with AI !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Pl9zD1Z78
VOS: Learning What You Don’t Know By Virtual Outlier Synthesis | Paper Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EQJAo_k8Ak
Stanford Seminar – Toward Scalable Autonomy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mi74CM0Yj8

Newsletter – Week 05, 2022

February 6, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Loom and Panama Updates, Groovy 4.0, GraalVM 22.0 CE, Jakarta EE RPC
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/01/java-news-roundup-jan24-2022/
Quality Outreach Heads-up – JDK 18: JEP 421
https://inside.java/2022/01/31/quality-heads-up/
Changes in the Core Team
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/01/31/changes-in-the-core-team.html
Meta Unveils AI Supercomputer for the Metaverse
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/02/meta-metaverse-ai-supercomputer/

Articles

Using Spring Cloud Gateway with OAuth 2.0 Patterns
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-cloud-gateway-oauth2
The 9 indispensable features to learn for the new Rust programmer
https://kerkour.com/indispensable-rust-features-to-learn/
Rust has a small standard library (and that’s ok)
https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/rust-stdlib/
curl with Rust
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/02/01/curl-with-rust/
Uninitialized Memory: Unsafe Rust is Too Hard
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/1/30/unsafe-rust/
5 basic strategies for distributed systems observability
https://www.techtarget.com/searchapparchitecture/tip/5-basic-strategies-for-distributed-systems-observability
Building OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server
https://dzone.com/articles/building-oauth-20-authorization-server
Building Infrastructure Platforms
https://martinfowler.com/articles/building-infrastructure-platform.html
Scaling productivity on microservices at Lyft (Part 4): Gating Deploys with Automated Acceptance Tests
https://eng.lyft.com/scaling-productivity-on-microservices-at-lyft-part-4-gating-deploys-with-automated-acceptance-4417e0ebc274
Machine Learning Gets a Quantum Speedup
https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-gets-a-quantum-computing-speedup-20220204/

Videos

Refactoring Java 8 code with Java 17 new features – JEP Café #9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW7uzc61tZ8
Memory Management Strategies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUZ_2gGWuPo
Rust Linz, January ’22 – Error Handling in Rust – A Pragmatic Approach by Luca Palmieri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpVzSse7oJ4
Amazon is using Rust!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRRnIathTXs
Serverless Security: New Risks Require New Approaches by Itay Rozenman – GOTO 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeMFRd2TFD4

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