News

• Java 21, the Next LTS Release, Delivers Virtual Threads, Record Patterns and Pattern Matching
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/09/java21-released/
• Announcing Rust 1.72.1
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/09/19/Rust-1.72.1.html
• crates.io Policy Update RFC
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/09/22/crates-io-usage-policy-rfc.html

Articles

• The Arrival of Java 21!
  https://inside.java/2023/09/19/the-arrival-of-java-21/
• Java News Roundup: JCP 25th Anniversary, Foreign Function & Memory API, Eclipse Epicyro
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/09/java-news-roundup-sep11-2023/
• JCP EC Industry Experts Reveal Their Favorite JDK 21 Feature at Special Oracle Event in NYC
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/09/jcp-25th-anniversary/
• Monkey-patching in Java
  https://blog.frankel.ch/monkeypatching-java/
• New language features since Java 8 to 21
  https://advancedweb.hu/new-language-features-since-java-8-to-21/
• A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 21
  https://advancedweb.hu/a-categorized-list-of-all-java-and-jvm-features-since-jdk-8-to-21/
• The Demand for Rust Developers
  https://medium.com/@diptendu.tu/the-demand-for-rust-developers-5f41925ce569
• Breaking Tradition: Why Rust Might Be Your Best First Language
  https://medium.com/@otukof/breaking-tradition-why-rust-might-be-your-best-first-language-d10afc482ac1
• Scaling Rust Adoption Through Training
  https://security.googleblog.com/2023/09/scaling-rust-adoption-through-training.html
• The State of Async Rust: Runtimes
  https://corrode.dev/blog/async/
• Aim for Immutability
  https://corrode.dev/blog/immutability/
• Choosing a more optimal String type
  https://swatinem.de/blog/optimized-strings/
• Logging in Rust – How to Get Started
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/09/20/logging-in-rust
• State of Serverless 2023 Report Suggests Increasing Serverless Adoption
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/09/state-serverless-report/
• Stepping up marketing for advertisers: Scalable lookalike audience
  https://engineering.grab.com/scalable-lookalike-audiences

Videos

• JDK 21 Release Notes – Inside Java Newscast #55
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h13oIb9L1Fw
• Spring Office Hours Episode 52 – Java 21
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAliLDYe20M
• Spring Tips: Making the Joyful Jump to Java 21
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VJ_dSdV3pY
• Rust 1.72.0
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qLMubxngoY
• All Rust string types explained
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpvzeyzgQdw
• Rust Project Tutorial – Authentication Server Using Warp + JWT
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oMoHZZeyb0
• Live Coding AWS CodeWhisper to build a Rust Lambda Function
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U345RQdwYLM
• How Will Evolutionary Architecture Evolve?
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/evolutionary-architecture-evolve/
• Reinforcement Learning – ChatGPT, Playing Games & More • Dean Wampler • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aua-4o4n4zE

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News

• Java News Roundup: JDK 22 Release Schedule, Project Babylon, Helidon 4.0-RC2, MicroProfile 6.1-RC1
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/09/java-news-roundup-sep04-2023/
• Introducing RustRover – A Standalone Rust IDE by JetBrains
  https://blog.jetbrains.com/rust/2023/09/13/introducing-rustrover-a-standalone-rust-ide-by-jetbrains/
• AI, ML, Data Engineering News Roundup: Stable Chat, Vertex AI, ChatGPT and Code Llama
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/09/ai-ml-data-news-september4-2023/
• Weekly Update on Large Language Models: PointLLM, WALL-E, AskIt, and Jais
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/09/llm-models-september7-2023/

Articles

• Java Records are “Trusted” and Consequently Faster
  http://minborgsjavapot.blogspot.com/2023/09/java-records-are-trusted-and.html
• Dealing with Java CVEs: Discovery, Detection, Analysis, and Resolution
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/dealing-with-java-cves/
• Owned values and Futures in Rust
  https://www.snoyman.com/blog/owned-values-and-futures/
• What’s The Time In Tokio?
  https://work.yba.dev/what-s-the-time-in-tokio
• Writing a Web Scraper in Rust using Reqwest
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/09/13/web-scraping-rust-reqwest
• Rethinking Rust’s unsafe keyword
  https://rainingcomputers.blog/dist/rethinking_rusts_unsafe_keyword.md
• Problem Details for HTTP APIs – RFC 7807 is dead, long live RFC 9457
  https://blog.frankel.ch/problem-details-http-apis/
• Domain-Driven Cloud: Aligning your Cloud Architecture to your Business Model
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/domain-driven-cloud/
• A Guide to Managing ML Models After Deployment
  https://serokell.io/blog/ml-model-post-deployment
• DeepMind’s cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI.
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/09/15/1079624/deepmind-inflection-generative-ai-whats-next-mustafa-suleyman/

Videos

• Java 21 API New Features
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mPd2eL0wYQ
• JVM Language Summit 2023 Keynote
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma0NtbG0mHY
• Java 21 Security Updates
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSjdZZsHM04
• Spring Office Hours Episode 51 – Spring CLI & Spring AI
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPvJqw0FQfc
• JetBrains RustRover Preview
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-si74QRIc4
• How to Do Embedded Development with Rust • Steve Klabnik • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lHtXkYnip8
• Running a “Free” Local LLM (Bigcode) using just AWS GPUs and Rust Candle
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1drdhPZBw
• Engineering Documentation • Lorna Jane Mitchell • YOW! 2022
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhaPj1HE0Io
• Democratising Software Architecture • Eoin Woods • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nchRmYvUf2Y
• Will LLMs kill Search? Nils Reimers (director of ML at Cohere) | The AI Epiphany Discord talks
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXdR46em2-M
• A NEW AI Model out for Text to 3D?! MVDream Explained.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiVC9J-A_68

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News

• Java News Roundup: Single Query Loading, GraalVM, GlassFish, JReleaser, Quarkus, Micronaut
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/09/java-news-roundup-aug28-2023/
• Keeping Rust projects secure with cargo-audit 0.18: performance, compatibility and security improvements
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/09/04/keeping-secure-with-cargo-audit-0.18.html

Articles

• Pod Startup Time Improvements
  https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/pod-startup-time-improvements-e2f3fb79751d
• Views on machine learning in Rust
  https://deepcausality.com/blog/views-on-rust-ml/
• Using Zig in our incremental Turborepo migration from Go to Rust
  https://vercel.com/blog/how-we-continued-porting-turborepo-to-rust
• Good performance is not just big O
  https://jmmv.dev/2023/09/performance-is-not-big-o.html
• Semantic Search with Qdrant, OpenAI and Shuttle
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/09/08/building-semantic-search-in-rust
• Up: Portable Microservices Ready for the Cloud
  https://www.uber.com/blog/up-portable-microservices-ready-for-the-cloud
• Journey to the cloud part II: Migrating Stack Overflow for Teams to Azure
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/05/journey-to-the-cloud-part-ii-migrating-stack-overflow-for-teams-to-azure/
• Scaling Kafka to Support PayPal’s Data Growth
  https://medium.com/paypal-tech/scaling-kafka-to-support-paypals-data-growth-a0b4da420fab
• Building a Control Plane for Lyft’s Shared Development Environment
  https://eng.lyft.com/building-a-control-plane-for-lyfts-shared-development-environment-6a40266fcf5e
• Traffic 101: Packets Mostly Flow
  https://slack.engineering/traffic-101-packets-mostly-flow/
• AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report – September 2023
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/ai-ml-data-engineering-trends-2023/
• How to build an enterprise LLM application: Lessons from GitHub Copilot
  https://github.blog/2023-09-06-how-to-build-an-enterprise-llm-application-lessons-from-github-copilot/
• MLEnv: Standardizing ML at Pinterest Under One ML Engine to Accelerate Innovation
  https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/mlenv-standardizing-ml-at-pinterest-under-one-ml-engine-to-accelerate-innovation-e2b30b2f6768
• Machine Learning Platform at Walmart
  https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/machine-learning-platform-at-walmart-b06819825ef7
• You need to talk to your kid about AI. Here are 6 things you should say.
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/09/05/1079009/you-need-to-talk-to-your-kid-about-ai-here-are-6-things-you-should-say/
• Foundation Models
  https://serokell.io/blog/guide-to-foundation-models
• Frontiers of multimodal learning: A responsible AI approach
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/frontiers-of-multimodal-learning-a-responsible-ai-approach/

Videos

• Java 21 Tool Enhancements: Better Across the Board
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFJBVuaIsRg
• Value Objects in Valhalla
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3VRwz4zbdw
• Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Java Class Initialization
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtbOhgfYhcM
• Project Leyden – Capturing Lightning in a Bottle
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnth19Kf-x0
• 5 Strong Opinions On Everyday Rust
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j_FbjiowvE
• Rust Web App – Why no state?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdLi69mWIIE
• Effective and Efficient Observability with OpenTelemetry
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/opentelemetry-observability/
• AI is a Bad Student… Deep Learning and Supervised Learning: What You Need to Know
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEhWgVyRINI
• Malignant Intelligence?
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/machine-learning-ethics/

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News

• Java News Roundup: Introducing Spring AI, Spring Modulith 1.0, Testcontainers Desktop
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/08/java-news-roundup-aug21-2023/
• JDK 21 and JDK 22: What We Know So Far
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/09/java-21-so-far/
• Spring AI Provides Integration with OpenAI and Azure OpenAI
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/08/spring-ai/
• MicroStream Debuts Eclipse Store Java Persistence Framework at Eclipse Foundation
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/08/debut-of-eclipse-store/
• crates.io Postmortem: User Uploaded Malware
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/09/01/crates-io-malware-postmortem.html

Articles

• Java 22: Panama FFM Provides Massive Performance Improvements for Native Strings
  http://minborgsjavapot.blogspot.com/2023/08/java-22-panama-ffm-provides-massive.html
• Streamlining Code with Unnamed Patterns/Variables: a Comparative Study of Java, Kotlin, and Scala
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/comparative-study-java-kotlin-scala/
• Send your logs to Loki
  https://blog.frankel.ch/logs-loki/
• Why Rust is the most admired language among developers
  https://github.blog/2023-08-30-why-rust-is-the-most-admired-language-among-developers/
• How to Implement OAuth in Rust
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/08/30/using-oauth-with-axum
• Using Kani to write and validate Rust code with ChatGPT
  https://blog.logrocket.com/using-kani-write-validate-rust-code-chatgpt/
• The fastest WebSocket implementation
  https://c410-f3r.github.io/thoughts/the-fastest-websocket-implementation/
• Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery
  https://netflixtechblog.com/zero-configuration-service-mesh-with-on-demand-cluster-discovery-ac6483b52a51
• Why all application migrations should be incremental
  https://vercel.com/blog/incremental-migrations

Videos

• Java 21 JVM & GC Improvements
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXWbyf8SUjI
• Java 21 new feature: Virtual Threads
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E0LU85EnTI
• Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Java Class Initialization
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtbOhgfYhcM
• Project Lilliput – Compressed Object Headers
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ioh6kprnPE
• Fast JVM Startup with Checkpoint & Restore
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC98nTslxKQ
• Generational ZGC and Beyond
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyXjC68l8mw
• Rust by Example read-through – part 1 (chapters 1-8)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL9hjZAmdj4
• Creating a multi-threaded utility with Rust’s channels
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVyNAwzj5mA
• Rust + Serverless = LOVE – Maxime David – Rust Linz, July 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLBQfMo9PVo
• Connecting the Dots: API Design in a Distributed World
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/api-design-distributed-systems/
• LLaVA: Bridging the Gap Between Visual and Language AI with GPT-4
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn1B_L_zAwI
• What if your AI is wrong? Tackling AI Hallucinations with Explainability in AI (XAI)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QVMCKmRJjQ
• Andrew Ng: Opportunities in AI – 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p248yoa3oE

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