News

• Java News Roundup: JEPs for JDK 21, MicroStream to Eclipse, Helidon, Piranha, Gradle 8.1
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/04/java-news-roundup-apr10-2023/
• Announcing Rust 1.69.0
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/04/20/Rust-1.69.0.html

Articles

• A Guide to @Timeout Annotation in JUnit 5
  https://www.baeldung.com/java-junit-5-timeout-annotation
• Traits are more than interfaces
  https://felix-knorr.net/posts/2023-04-17-traits.html
• Using Rust scoped threads to improve efficiency and safety
  https://blog.logrocket.com/using-rust-scoped-threads-improve-efficiency-safety/
• Adopting an API Maturity Model to Accelerate Innovation
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/api-maturity-model/
• Message Center – Redesigning the messaging experience on the Grab superapp
  https://engineering.grab.com/message-center
• There Is No A.I.
  https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/there-is-no-ai
• Artificial intelligence is infiltrating health care. We shouldn’t let it make all the decisions.
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/21/1071921/ai-is-infiltrating-health-care-we-shouldnt-let-it-make-decisions/

Videos

• Z Garbage Collector: The Next Generation
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnodHoNYE1Y
• Project Panama: Interconnecting the Java Virtual Machine and Native Code
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M57l4DMcADg
• Helidon – Microservices on Modern Java
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diUvR6gqHVY
• JavaFX 20 and Beyond
  https://inside.java/2023/04/16/levelup-javafx/
• The Golden Path to SpringOne: How Netflix Really Uses Java Today with Paul Bakker
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dpLVvRpPPs
• Rust 1.69.0
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHEmHxrlxhU
• When to Choose Rust by Tim McNamara – YOW! 2022
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wClDbLGLjxw
• Rust-Powered Log Observability at Scale
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Eg_Keqt1I0
• Istio as a Platform for Running Microservices
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/istio-platform-microservices/
• How Cognitive Biases Affect our Software Architectures by Birgitta Böckeler – YOW! 2022
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKgE4qfAppI
• Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI | Lex Fridman Podcast
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMavKrA-4do

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News

• Java News Roundup: String Templates, Quarkus, Open Liberty, PrimeFaces, JobRunr, Devnexus 2023
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/04/java-news-roundup-apr03-2023/
• JEP 444: Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/04/virtual-threads-arrives-jdk21/
• Twitter Open-Sources Recommendation Algorithm
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/04/twitter-algorithm/
• A note on the Trademark Policy Draft
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/04/12/trademark-policy-draft-feedback.html

Articles

• Unleash the Power of Open Source Java Profilers: Comparing VisualVM, JMC, and async-profiler
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/open-source-java-profilers/
• Control flow patterns in Rust
  https://symbolica.io/posts/control_flow_patterns/
• Using BufRead for faster Rust I/O speed
  https://blog.logrocket.com/using-bufread-faster-rust-io-speed/
• The A to Z of Artificial Intelligence
  https://time.com/6271657/a-to-z-of-artificial-intelligence/
• TinyML: The Future of Machine Learning on a Minuscule Scale
  https://www.unite.ai/tinyml-the-future-of-machine-learning-on-a-minuscule-scale/
• In France, schools warm to systems with AI that increase comfort, reduce energy use
  https://news.microsoft.com/europe/features/in-france-schools-warm-to-systems-with-ai-that-increase-comfort-reduce-energy-use/
• How generative AI is changing the way developers work
  https://github.blog/2023-04-14-how-generative-ai-is-changing-the-way-developers-work/
• Transformers in ML: What They Are and How They Work
  https://serokell.io/blog/transformers-in-ml
• Building toward more autonomous and proactive cloud technologies with AI
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/building-toward-more-autonomous-and-proactive-cloud-technologies-with-ai/
• Building LLM applications for production
  https://huyenchip.com/2023/04/11/llm-engineering.html

Videos

• Getting Rid Of Unused Variables (Finally) – Inside Java Newscast #46
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP1k412Bylw
• Evolving the Security of the Java Platform
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O4JtWcmkVQ
• Should Rust be your first programming language?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4slMaFWCcg
• Rust Axum Full Course – Web Development
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZtlD_m59sM
• Avoid Downtime During Migrations Using Feature Flags with Pavan Yadlapalli
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f03rjA_0kfs
• RTC @Scale 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K55UTn_SZ7w&list=PLBnLThDtSXOzP0b6WB70etn5khToCfvMs
• How to become a Self-Driving Car Engineer in 2023 – What’s AI Podcast Episode 8
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyKQ7KBQH9E
• An introduction to generative AI with Swami Sivasubramanian
  https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/04/an-introduction-to-generative-ai-with-swami-sivasubramanian.html

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News

• Java News Roundup: JDK 21 Release Schedule, Payara Platform, JBang, JHipster, WildFly
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/04/java-news-roundup-mar27-2023/
• AI, ML & Data News Roundup: OpenAI’s GPT-4, Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel, Meta SAM and BloombergGPT
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/04/ai-ml-data-news-april3-2023/

Articles

• Time Zone and Currency Database in JDK
  https://foojay.io/today/time-zone-and-currency-database-in-jdk/
• Migrate a RMI-Based Legacy Application to WebSocket
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/rmi-to-websocket/
• The Difference Between junit-vintage-engine and junit-jupiter-engine
  https://www.baeldung.com/java-junit-vintage-engine-vs-junit-jupiter-engine
• Two things that Rust does better than C++
  https://getdozer.io/blog/rust-cpp-move-and-dispatch/
• The guide to signal handling in Rust
  https://blog.logrocket.com/guide-signal-handling-rust/
• Follow up on cracking ZIP archives in Rust
  https://agourlay.github.io/follow-up-cracking-zip-rust/
• Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report – April 2023
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecture-trends-2023/
• Assessing Organizational Culture to Drive SRE Adoption
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/assess-culture-sre-adoption/
• How eBay Modernized the Most Important Page on Our Platform
  https://tech.ebayinc.com/engineering/how-ebay-modernized-the-most-important-page-on-our-platform/
• Here’s the latest version of our Engineering Career Framework
  https://dropbox.tech/culture/our-updated-engineering-career-framework
• I Gave ChatGPT an IQ Test. Here’s What I Discovered
  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/i-gave-chatgpt-an-iq-test-heres-what-i-discovered/
• What developers need to know about generative AI
  https://github.blog/2023-04-07-what-developers-need-to-know-about-generative-ai/
• Can AI Help in the World’s Most Dangerous Jobs?
  https://www.unite.ai/can-ai-help-in-the-worlds-most-dangerous-jobs/
• Towards ML-enabled cleaning robots
  https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/04/towards-ml-enabled-cleaning-robots.html

Videos

• Java 20: Reviewing the Enhancements in the Latest JDK Release
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mo7rEwGaHk
• Java Language Futures, Spring 2023 Edition
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA-sB3zvluE
• How to Init Databases With Quarkus
  https://blog.sebastian-daschner.com/entries/init-databases-quarkus
• Solving distributed systems challenges in Rust
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gboGyccRVXI
• Advanced Event-driven Architectures at the LEGO Group by Sarah Hamilton – GOTO 2022
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_Yzybhmj-8
• Airbnb at Scale
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/airbnb-scalability-transition/

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News

• Java News Roundup: JDK 20 Released, Spring Releases, Quarkus, Helidon, Micronaut, Open Liberty
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/03/java-news-roundup-mar20-2023/
• Oracle Introduces a New Java SE Universal Subscription
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/03/new-java-licensing-by-oracle/

Articles

• Learning to grow machine-learning models
  https://news.mit.edu/2023/new-technique-machine-learning-models-0322
• Evolution of quality at Grab
  https://engineering.grab.com/evolution-of-quality
• Culture & Methods Trends Report March 2023
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/culture-trends-2023/
• Twitter’s Recommendation Algorithm
  https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm

Videos

• Java 20 in Two minutes
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NEx1f7cqZM
• Java 21’s New (Sequenced) Collections – Inside Java Newscast #45
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G_0el3RWPE
• Troubleshooting Native Memory Issues in Java Applications
  https://inside.java/2023/03/29/levelup-poonam/
• Spring Office Hours: Episode 34 – Spring Cloud Kubernetes
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E76APgbIkIY
• Build Better, Deploy Faster: Spring Boot + Spring Cloud in the Cloud for K8s-Based Microservices
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVk1b9XqcSM
• Why I switched from JS to Rust
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsb9IQ3e8F8
• Rust in Action by Tim McNamara & Richard Feldman – GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJ6bLITZsI
• Tide is perhaps my favorite Rust web app framework
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbhzLP3vnkg
• Everything you need to know about prompting. With Learn Prompting’s Creator Sander Schulhoff
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNrPs3ANz1E
• Godfather of artificial intelligence” talks impact and potential of AI
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpoRO378qRY

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