News

• Java News Roundup: JDK 21 RC1, Apache Camel 4.0, Payara Platform, Apache Tomcat, Micronaut
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/08/java-news-roundup-aug14-2023/
• Announcing Rust 1.72.0
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/08/24/Rust-1.72.0.html
• Cargo changes how arrays in config are merged
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/08/24/cargo-config-merging.html

Articles

• Leveraging Eclipse JNoSQL 1.0.0: Quarkus Integration and Building a Pet-Friendly REST API
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/leveraging-jnosql-1-0/
• Using Rust GATs to improve code and application performance
  https://blog.logrocket.com/using-rust-gats-improve-code-app-performance/
• Comparing Rust vs. Zig: Performance, safety, and more
  https://blog.logrocket.com/comparing-rust-vs-zig-performance-safety-more/
• If you want to address tech debt, quantify it first
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/08/24/if-you-want-to-address-tech-debt-quantify-it-first/
• The Perils of Migrating a Large-Scale Service at Uber
  https://www.uber.com/blog/the-perils-of-migrating-a-large-scale-service-at-uber
• Bottleneck #05: Resilience and Observability
  https://martinfowler.com/articles/bottlenecks-of-scaleups/05-resilience-and-observability.html

Videos

• Continuations – Under the Covers
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nRS6UiN7X0
• The Challenges of Introducing Virtual Threads to the Java Platform – Project Loom
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsCJYQDPrrE
• A Classfile API for the JDK
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcg-E_qyMOI
• Project Panama – Foreign Function & Memory API
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUFysMkMS00
• Java and GPU … are we nearly there yet?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbKBu3lTftc
• From CPU to GPU and FPGAs: Supercharging Java Applications with TornadoVM
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTzGlnv6nuA
• Rust 1.71.0
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8aHX-JkiZs
• Rust Axum Production Coding – Rust Web Development
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cA_mk4vdWY
• Doing Rust Inference with Candle using GitHub Codespaces .Devcontainer
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALqw6vfottY
• MetaGPT: Redefining Multi-Agent Collaboration for Complex Tasks
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtxMderNrzU

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News

• Java News Roundup: Liberica JDK Performance Edition, GraalVM JDK 21 Builds, Open Liberty, Quarkus
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/08/java-news-roundup-jul31-2023/
• Java Joins the Ranks in Semantic Kernel SDK
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/08/semantic-kernel-java/
• 2022 Annual Rust Survey Results
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/08/07/Rust-Survey-2023-Results.html

Articles

• My final take on Gradle (vs. Maven)
  https://blog.frankel.ch/final-take-gradle/
• Rust Server Components
  https://anto.pt/articles/rust-server-components
• A failed experiment with Rust static dispatch
  https://jmmv.dev/2023/08/rust-static-dispatch-failed-experiment.html
• How to use Krustlet for your Rust projects
  https://blog.logrocket.com/use-krustlet-rust-projects/

Videos

• To Java 21 and Beyond!
  https://inside.java/2023/08/08/to-java21-and-beyond/
• Spring Office Hours: Episode 47 – Frontend Options
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HGYuoEY6eQ
• Rust API design: the curious case of Result
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYjMp9obcZ0
• The Database of Four Dimensional Reality – SpacetimeDB
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4EF3d2_QTg
• rustc explore session: @compiler-errors discusses coercion in hir typeck (session 2)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laY9ec3xSb8
• Open the Rust compiler’s puzzle book – weird-exprs.rs
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RydzFK11-bE
• Andreas Monitzer – Bevy-ECS explained – Rust Vienna June 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBjmRmjr4JA
• Adventures in Performance
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/factors-code-performance/
• Structural Software Design
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj9DoZsu7Ls
• How do mathematical models help predict the future? – with Erica Thompson
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhHK-6QDCr0
• How do LLMs work? Next Word Prediction with the Transformer Architecture Explained
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl3mbqOtlmM
• Harvard CS50’s Artificial Intelligence with Python – Full University Course
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NgNicANyqM

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News

• Java News Roundup: Grails 6.0, PrimeFaces 13.0, JUnit 5.10, GraalVM, TornadoVM, New JEP Drafts
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/07/java-news-roundup-jul24-2023/
• Announcing Rust 1.71.1
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/08/03/Rust-1.71.1.html
• Security advisory for Cargo (CVE-2023-38497)
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/08/03/cve-2023-38497.html
• Meta Open Sourced AudioCraft, its Text-to-Music Generative AI
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/08/meta-text-to-music-generative-ai/
• OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) 1.0.0 Released
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/08/otlp-version-one-released/

Articles

• Performance Comparison Between Different Java String Concatenation Methods
  https://www.baeldung.com/java-string-concatenation-methods
• Metadata GC Threshold in Java
  https://www.baeldung.com/java-metadata-gc-threshold
• High-throughput stream processing in Rust
  https://noz.ai/hash-pipeline/
• Was the digital transformation worth it, security-wise?
  https://securityintelligence.com/articles/was-the-digital-transformation-worth-it-security-wise/
• Hyperparameter Tuning and Evaluation of ML Models
  https://serokell.io/blog/hyperparameter-tuning-in-ml
• How Cities Are Deploying Leading Technologies Leveraging Unbiased AI Algorithms
  https://www.unite.ai/how-cities-are-deploying-leading-technologies-leveraging-unbiased-ai-algorithms/
• Unsupervised graph anomaly detection – Catching new fraudulent behaviours
  https://engineering.grab.com/graph-anomaly-model

Videos

• Strengthen your Java App’s Defenses with Key Encapsulation Mechanism API – Inside Java Newscast #54
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNnS-WdHN1E
• Spring Office Hours Episode 46 – Why Spring Boot
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD6v_BDznAU
• Building Optimized Java Microservices with Micronaut 4 & GraalVM • Graeme Rocher • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWIUPMMq9Fc
• External Dependencies – Learn Rust EP9
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfOPpV1AiiU
• Practical Data Privacy • Katharine Jarmul • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rhye-QUQpE
• Leveling Up Your Architecture Game
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/progress-communication-collaboration/
• StyleGANEX: The Game-Changing AI Model for Image Transformations
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj20I2zFYi0
• Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast #392
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8qJsk1j2zE
• AI Safety – Full Course by Safe.AI Founder on Machine Learning & Ethics (Center for AI Safety)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agEPmYdbQLs

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