Newsletter – Week 47, 2023

November 26, 2023 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Spring Framework 6.1, Spring Data 2023.1, Payara Platform, JEPs for JDK 22
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/11/java-news-roundup-nov13-2023/

Articles

Efficiently Arranging Test Data: Streamlining Setup With Instancio
https://www.infoq.com/articles/randomized-test-data-java/
Fun with lexical analysis and Rust
https://blog.blotato.com/fun-with-lexical-analysis-rust/
Signals vs. Servers
https://blog.adamchalmers.com/signals-vs-servers/
Why Enums in Rust feel so much better
https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/11/23/enums-in-rust
Top Rust Libraries
https://serokell.io/blog/most-popular-rust-libraries
Cinnamon: Using Century Old Tech to Build a Mean Load Shedder
https://www.uber.com/blog/cinnamon-using-century-old-tech-to-build-a-mean-load-shedder
The foundations of the Frontend Cloud
https://vercel.com/blog/the-foundations-of-the-frontend-cloud
Two years later: a baseline that drives up security for the industry
https://security.googleblog.com/2023/11/two-years-later-baseline-that-drives-up.html

Videos

Spring Tips: Spring Boot 3.2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMhpDdR6nHw
Rust 1.74.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0rPugR8s30
Rust 1.74.0: All 45 changes in 19 minutes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOzuShpnUm8
Rust’s most popular framework just got a major upgrade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9l1VKz8AgQ
Rust Sea-Query + SQLX + ModQL (for Production Code)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dMH9UiwKqg
Small Steps Are the Fastest Way Forward: Life Beyond Agile & Scrum • Sander Hoogendoorn • GOTO 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzCE4m9ERvU
Maximizing ChatGPT: AI Insights with @KenJee_ds – What’s AI Podcast Ep. 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOD9-WyWExs
Distil-Whisper Explained – The most recent AI Voice-to-Text Technology!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZtHEKyvuug

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Newsletter – Week 46, 2023

November 23, 2023 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JEPs for JDK 22, Spring Shell, Quarkus, Apache Camel, JDKMon, J-Fall 2023
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/11/java-news-roundup-nov06-2023/
Announcing Rust 1.74.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/11/16/Rust-1.74.0.html
CISA’s Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence
https://www.cisa.gov/ai

Articles

Mastering Testing Efficiency in Spring Boot: Optimization Strategies and Best Practices
https://engineering.zalando.com/posts/2023/11/mastering-testing-efficiency-in-spring-boot-optimization-strategies-and-best-practices.html
Building and Deploying A Static Site Generator
https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/11/15/ssg-in-rust
Exploring Rust compiler options: GCC vs. LLVM
https://blog.logrocket.com/exploring-rust-compiler-options-gcc-vs-llvm/
My favorite coding question to give candidates (and why)
https://carloarg02.medium.com/my-favorite-coding-question-to-give-candidates-17ea4758880c
How to scale a large codebase
https://vercel.com/blog/how-to-scale-a-large-codebase
How We Export Billion-Scale Graphs on Transactional Graph Databases
https://innovation.ebayinc.com/tech/engineering/how-we-export-billion-scale-graphs-on-transactional-graph-databases/
4 misconceptions about AI
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/4-misconceptions-about-ai/
What are AI Agents?
https://serokell.io/blog/what-are-ai-agents
Wisdom of Unstructured Data: Building Airbnb’s Listing Knowledge from Big Text Data
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/wisdom-of-unstructured-data-building-airbnbs-listing-knowledge-from-big-text-data-7c533466a63c

Videos

Java On The GPU – Inside Java Newscast #58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8pxRkdKeR0
Spring Office Hours: Episode 57 – Spring Academy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Llam5aYkOw
Code in Rust with RustRover, by Vitaly Bragilevsky – Rust Linz November 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnFS0YIKUJ8
An Introduction to Veilid, by Christien Rioux – Rust Linz November 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h288gZTjJOM
Dmitry Shapiro on AI’s Future & Democratizing AI — Insights from a ex-Google & MySpace Music CTO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_NijxPgybo
Introducing the Hendrix ML Platform: an Evolution of Spotify’s ML Infrastructure
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/hendrix-ml/

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Newsletter – Week 45, 2023

November 14, 2023 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JHipster 8.0, Implicit Classes and Instance Main Methods, Kotlin 1.9.20
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/11/java-news-roundup-oct30-2023/
WildFly 30 Application Server Gets Ready for JDK 21
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/11/wildfly-30-ready-for-jdk21/

Articles

Java MVC Frameworks Comparison
https://www.jrebel.com/blog/java-mvc-frameworks-comparison
A four year plan for async Rust
https://without.boats/blog/a-four-year-plan/
Using Modern Linux Sockets
https://devork.be/blog/2023/11/modern-linux-sockets/
Faster compilation with the parallel front-end in nightly
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/11/09/parallel-rustc.html
Time Series Analysis in ML
https://serokell.io/blog/time-series-analysis-in-ml

Videos

Optimizing your equals() methods with Pattern Matching – JEP Cafe #21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuzjX_efuDs
The Rust Survival Guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usJDUSrcwqI
How to Build a Successful Cloud Capability on a Heavy Regulated Organization
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/build-cloud-capability/
What are the risks of generative AI? – The Turing Lectures with Mhairi Aitken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si1jcl7UFqU
From Microsoft GitHub to Google DeepMind – Paige Bailey on AI Research and Products What’s AI Ep. 21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5nxMnTtbD4
The AI Conference 2023
https://aiconference.com/ai-conference-2023-shaping-the-future-of-ai/

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Newsletter – Week 44, 2023

November 5, 2023 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Helidon 4.0, Eclipse Serializer 1.0, JEPs for JDK 22
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/10/java-news-roundup-oct23-2023/
The State of Java 2023: Usage Strong, Oracle Share Declines
https://devm.io/java/state-java-2023-azul-report

Articles

Solving the Countdown problem with Java 21’s Language Features
https://inside.java/2023/11/03/countdown-haskell-java/
Can Rust prevent logic errors?
https://itsallaboutthebit.com/logic-errors-in-rust/
Faster Rust Serialization
https://mo8it.com/blog/faster-rust-serialization/
system dependencies are hard (so we made them easier)
https://blog.axo.dev/2023/10/dependencies
htmx, Rust & Shuttle: A New Rapid Prototyping Stack
https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/10/25/htmx-with-rust
Dealing with Dependencies in Rust
https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/104/dealing-with-dependencies-in-rust
All treats, no tricks: 6 solutions to common developers challenges
https://developers.googleblog.com/2023/10/6-solutions-common-developer-challenges.html
The False Dichotomy of Monolith vs. Microservices
https://www.infoq.com/articles/monolith-versus-microservices/
PinCompute: A Kubernetes Backed General Purpose Compute Platform for Pinterest
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/pincompute-a-kubernetes-backed-general-purpose-compute-platform-for-pinterest-8ad408df2d6f
Streaming SQL in Data Mesh
https://netflixtechblog.com/streaming-sql-in-data-mesh-0d83f5a00d08
Real-Time Analytics for Mobile App Crashes using Apache Pinot
https://www.uber.com/blog/real-time-analytics-for-mobile-app-crashes
The architecture of today’s LLM applications
https://github.blog/2023-10-30-the-architecture-of-todays-llm-applications/
What is the Bletchley Declaration Signed by 28 Countries?
https://www.unite.ai/what-is-the-bletchley-declaration-signed-by-28-countries/

Videos

Better Java Streams with Gatherers – Inside Java Newscast #57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epgJm2dZTSg
Java Web App with Quarkus and JPAStreamer – Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZnQ5R8Kd4I
JVM Anatomy 101
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeMi8K0AFAc
Spring Office Hours: Episode 56 – Spooky Spring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6h_3Evbmks
Async Not Required 🦀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXynWxALJmo
Async and Await Primer – Learn Rust EP10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOLzYO4tUWI
It’s a Kind Of Magic: Computation on Ciphertexts • Maarten Everts • GOTO 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b2ZuLdRpKA
OpenAI DALL-E 3 with James Betker (1st author)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgaTOX-RUQ4

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