Newsletter – Week 34, 2022

August 28, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 19-RC1, Multiple Spring Updates, Micronaut, Helidon, Payara
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/08/java-news-roundup-aug15-2022/
Spring Authorization Server 1.0 Planned for November 2022
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/08/spring-authorization-server-1-0/

Articles

Java 8 Streams: Multiple Filters vs. Complex Condition
https://www.baeldung.com/java-streams-multiple-filters-vs-condition
How to Speed up Large Collections Processing in Java
https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-collections-streams/
What the Heck Is Project Loom for Java?
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2022/08/26/state-of-java-project-loom
Local Class Improvements – Sip of Java
https://inside.java/2022/08/22/sip065/
Testing Kafka Connectors
https://www.morling.dev/blog/testing-kafka-connectors/
Tauri + Async Rust Process
https://rfdonnelly.github.io/posts/tauri-async-rust-process/
Writing a container in Rust
https://litchipi.github.io/series/container_in_rust
Does high velocity lead to burnout? That may be the wrong question to ask.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/08/22/does-high-velocity-lead-to-burnout-that-may-be-the-wrong-question-to-ask/
Fixed Partitions
https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-systems/fixed-partitions.html
Key-Range Partitions
https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-systems/key-range-partitions.html
What Does Zero Trust Mean for Kubernetes?
https://www.infoq.com/articles/zero-trust-k8s/
Uber Freight Carrier Metrics with Near-Real-Time Analytics
https://www.uber.com/blog/uber-freight-carrier-metrics-with-near-real-time-analytics/

Videos

String Templates, JavaFX 19, Deserialization, and more at JavaOne – Inside Java Newscast #32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiHgAh7wWPc
Level up Your Java Performance with TornadoVM
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/java-performance-tornadovm/
Rust 1.63.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCxKdaIn2CY
Static Code Analysis – A Behind-the-scenes Look by Arno Haase – GOTO 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HhHER0n8ls
What is Stable Diffusion? (Latent Diffusion Models Explained)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGBNdD3Wn-g
Ultimate Guide To Scaling ML Models – Megatron-LM | ZeRO | DeepSpeed | Mixed Precision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc0u4avAkuM

Newsletter – Week 33, 2022

August 22, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Extent-Local Variables, Payara Platform, Project Reactor, Ktor, Spring Web Flow
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/08/java-news-roundup-aug08-2022/
Contribute to the diagnostic translation effort!
https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2022/08/16/diagnostic-effort.html

Articles

Internationalization in Java – Sip of Java
https://inside.java/2022/08/17/sip064/
Concurrent Marking in G1
https://tschatzl.github.io/2022/08/04/concurrent-marking.html
Debezium and Quarkus: Change Data Capture Patterns to Avoid Dual-Writes Problems
https://www.infoq.com/articles/change-data-capture-debezium/
Get Started with Rust: Structs
https://serokell.io/blog/structs-in-rust
Comparing Rust’s and C++’s Concurrency Library
https://blog.m-ou.se/rust-cpp-concurrency/
IntoIterator and the for … in Syntax in Rust
https://www.geekabyte.io/2022/08/intoiterator-and-for-in-syntax-in-rust.html
Clock-Bound Wait
https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-systems/clock-bound.html
Emergent Leader
https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-systems/emergent-leader.html
Uber’s Next Gen Push Platform on gRPC
https://www.uber.com/blog/ubers-next-gen-push-platform-on-grpc/
A billion SMT queries a day
https://www.amazon.science/blog/a-billion-smt-queries-a-day
Restoring Over-Compressed Social Media Videos With Machine Learning
https://www.unite.ai/restoring-over-compressed-social-media-videos-with-machine-learning/

Videos

The Rust Release Cycle Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4CfHKZqzJg
Microservices explained – the What, Why and How?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv4LlmLmVWk
Why does human intelligence beat AI? – with Gerd Gigerenzer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXJVHU5vInQ

Newsletter – Week 32, 2022

August 14, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Spring Cloud, Liberica NIK, Open Liberty, Micronaut, JHipster, Apache ShenYu
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/08/java-news-roundup-aug01-2022/
JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2 Uses Java 17 Runtime
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/08/jetbrains-intellij-2022-2/
GraalVM 22.2 Adds Library Configuration Repository
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/08/graalvm-22-2/
Announcing Rust 1.63.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/08/11/Rust-1.63.0.html

Articles

The Serial Garbage Collector – Sip of Java
https://inside.java/2022/08/08/sip063/
Spring Profiles
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-profiles
A Comparison Between Spring and Spring Boot
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-vs-spring-boot
Introducing Micronaut Test Resources
https://melix.github.io/blog//2022/08/micronaut-test-resources.html
Understanding Rust generics and how to use them
https://blog.logrocket.com/understanding-rust-generics/
Interacting with databases in Rust using Diesel vs. SQLx
https://blog.logrocket.com/interacting-databases-rust-diesel-vs-sqlx/
Using unwrap() in Rust is Okay
https://blog.burntsushi.net/unwrap/
Basic Operator Overloading with Traits
https://rsdlt.onrender.com/posts/welcome-blog-rust-technology-development-programming-language/
The state of Rust GUI libraries
https://blog.logrocket.com/state-of-rust-gui-libraries/
Blocking Sockets and Async
https://www.thecodedmessage.com/posts/blocking-sockets/
Schema governance approaches for GraphQL
https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/schema-governance-approaches-for-graphql-68eaf32a48c0
Sisyphus and the CVE Feed: Vulnerability Management at Scale
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/sisyphus-and-the-cve-feed-vulnerability-management-at-scale-e2749f86a7a4
How AI Is Used in Supply Chain Management
https://www.unite.ai/how-ai-is-used-in-supply-chain-management/
NN Research Best Practices: Interview with Dr. Varun Ojha
https://serokell.io/blog/neural-networks-with-varun-ojha

Videos

Sequenced Collections, Purity, and more at JavaOne – Inside Java Newscast #31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBBuShS0ERs
Raw String Literals In Rust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEoIZCZSgbI
ML Security Operations at One of the Largest Brewing Companies by Maurits van der Goes – GOTO 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ5NYv56zuc
Building Animatable 3D Models with AI! BANMo explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDTy-liFoCQ

Newsletter – Week 31, 2022

August 7, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Helidon 3.0, GraalVM 22.2, IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2, Vert.x Virtual Threads
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/08/java-news-roundup-jul25-2022/
Increasing the glibc and Linux kernel requirements
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/08/01/Increasing-glibc-kernel-requirements.html
Non-lexical lifetimes (NLL) fully stable
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/08/05/nll-by-default.html
AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report—August 2022
https://www.infoq.com/articles/ai-ml-data-engineering-trends-2022/

Articles

The Parallel Garbage Collector – Sip of Java
https://inside.java/2022/08/01/sip062/
Testing Spring JMS
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-jms-testing
Apply Default Global SecurityScheme in springdoc-openapi
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-openapi-global-securityscheme
Get Started with Spring Boot and SAML
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2022/08/05/spring-boot-saml
Manage keybindings in a Rust terminal application
https://dystroy.org/blog/keybindings/
Linux kernel development
https://www.jackos.io/rust-kernel/rust-for-linux.html
What Is Enterprise, System, and Software Architecture
https://medium.com/@kirichuk/what-is-enterprise-system-and-software-architecture-480f23bbf43d
What Developers Must Know About Zero Trust
https://www.infoq.com/articles/zero-trust-developer-guide/
The next generation of Data Platforms is the Data Mesh
https://medium.com/paypal-tech/the-next-generation-of-data-platforms-is-the-data-mesh-b7df4b825522
Data Mesh — A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix
https://netflixtechblog.com/data-mesh-a-data-movement-and-processing-platform-netflix-1288bcab2873
Deep Learning Applications for Computer Vision
https://serokell.io/blog/deep-learning-for-computer-vision
BlenderBot 3: A 175B parameter, publicly available chatbot that improves its skills and safety over time
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/blenderbot-3-a-175b-parameter-publicly-available-chatbot-that-improves-its-skills-and-safety-over-time/
BIG3 basketball league shoots and scores with analytics that expand the potential for success
https://news.microsoft.com/features/big3-basketball-league-shoots-and-scores-with-analytics-that-expand-the-potential-for-success/

Videos

Java Asynchronous Programming Full Tutorial with Loom and Structured Concurrency – JEP Café #13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nOj8MKHvmw
Java Modules in Real Life
https://inside.java/2022/08/01/java-modules-irl/
Challenges of Large Enterprises in Moving to the Public Cloud by Madhu Sivasubramanian – GOTO 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhairDunuIA
Artificial Intelligence for Business Leaders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUHBoNOmGzs

GitHub Trends – June 2022

August 4, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

Welcome to Java and Rust GitHub trends June 2022 edition. This edition is a month delayed but let’s go and see what is there.

Java

Paper

Total stars: 6400

Last month stars: 465

Growth: 7%

https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper

About the project: high-performance Spigot fork that aims to fix gameplay and mechanics inconsistencies.

CDC Connectors for Apache Flink

Total stars: 2685

Last month stars: 181

Growth: 7%

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

About the project: CDC Connectors for Apache Flink^® is a set of source connectors for Apache Flink^®, ingesting changes from different databases using change data capture (CDC). CDC Connectors for Apache Flink^® integrates Debezium as the engine to capture data changes.

Velocity

Total stars: 1008

Last month stars: 50

Growth: 5%

https://github.com/PaperMC/Velocity

About the project: a Minecraft server proxy with unparalleled server support, scalability, and flexibility.

Iceberg

Total stars: 2951

Last month stars: 141

Growth: 5%

https://github.com/apache/iceberg

About the project: Iceberg is a high-performance format for huge analytic tables. Iceberg brings the reliability and simplicity of SQL tables to big data, while making it possible for engines like Spark, Trino, Flink, Presto, Hive and Impala to safely work with the same tables, at the same time.

Termux application

Total stars: 13711

Last month stars: 648

Growth: 5%

https://github.com/termux/termux-app

About the project: Termux is an Android terminal application and Linux environment.

OpenSearch

Total stars: 5321

Last month stars: 250

Growth: 5%

https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch

About the project: open source distributed and RESTful search engine.

Rust

Sui

Total stars: 409

Last month stars: 238

Growth: 58%

https://github.com/MystenLabs/sui

About the project: Sui, a next-generation smart contract platform with high throughput, low latency, and an asset-oriented programming model powered by the Move programming language.

GaiaX

Total stars: 502

Last month stars: 241

Growth: 48%

https://github.com/alibaba/GaiaX

About the project: GaiaX dynamic template engine is a lightweight cross-platform solution for pure native dynamic card.

RustDesk Server

Total stars: 1363

Last month stars: 399

Growth: 29%

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server

About the project: self-host your own RustDesk server, it is free and open source.tform solution for pure native dynamic card.

Spin

Total stars: 1381

Last month stars: 304

Growth: 22%

https://github.com/fermyon/spin

About the project: Spin is a framework for building, deploying, and running fast, secure, and composable cloud microservices with WebAssembly.

kajiya

Total stars: 3354

Last month stars: 618

Growth: 18%

https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/kajiya

About the project: experimental real-time global illumination renderer.

The Algorithms – Rust

Total stars: 8436

Last month stars: 950

Growth: 11%

https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Rust

About the project: all Algorithms implemented in Rust.

Observations

Across the Java projects in June month there are no highly growing projects, the leaders have only 7% growth.
As usual, Minecraft-related projects stay on top of the rating in the Java category.
Iceberg is a growing project in Apache Incubator with a focus on processing huge analytic datasets.
OpenSearch project is being fully open source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana looks pretty interesting and promising.
GaiaX from Alibaba YouKu technology team is Rust word in the Android and iOS world.
I found the Spin project extremely interesting for myself and would recommend you to take a look at it.
Love algorithms and Rust then “The Algorithms – Rust” project is for you.

_{Title image by Rolanas Valionis from Pixabay.}

Newsletter – Week 30, 2022

August 1, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 19 in RDP2, Oracle Critical Patch Update, TornadoVM on M1, Grails CVE
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/07/java-news-roundup-jul18-2022/
GraalVM Enterprise 22.2—Lower memory, smaller downloads, simpler library usage
https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/graalvm-enterprise-222
Announcing the Keyword Generics Initiative
https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2022/07/27/keyword-generics.html

Articles

A Guide to Java Source and Target Options
https://www.baeldung.com/java-source-target-options
Using @NotNull on a Method Parameter
https://www.baeldung.com/java-notnull-method-parameter
Spring Boot – Testing Redis With Testcontainers
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-redis-testcontainers
Rust is Meta’s Favorite Programming Language! Python is also on Line
https://www.analyticsinsight.net/rust-is-metas-favorite-programming-language-python-is-also-on-line/
Introduction to WebAssembly and Rust
https://bojanstipic.rs/blog/01-introduction-to-webassembly-and-rust/
Does Rust need proc-macros 2.0?
https://aaronerhardt.github.io/blog/posts/proc_macro_v2/
Software Visualization — Challenge, Accepted
https://engineering.atspotify.com/2022/07/software-visualization-challenge-accepted/
Preparing today for a post-quantum cryptographic future
https://www.amazon.science/blog/preparing-today-for-a-post-quantum-cryptographic-future
Five security principles for billions of messages across Meta’s apps
https://engineering.fb.com/2022/07/28/security/five-security-principles-for-billions-of-messages-across-metas-apps/
New hardware offers faster computation for artificial intelligence, with much less energy
https://news.mit.edu/2022/analog-deep-learning-ai-computing-0728

Videos

Java Q&A; Leyden, Valhalla, Amber, and more! – Inside Java Newscast #30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaGnGs9TeNc
Rust Tutorial Full Course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygL_xcavzQ4
Turbo Fish Syntax Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQhYb7NgdUU
Why does maths give humans the edge over machines? – with Junaid Mubeen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2trJEIFIvY
Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #306
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGBLRlLe7X8

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