News

• Java News Roundup: JHipster 8.1, Piranha Cloud 23.12, Open Liberty 23.0.0.12, Tomcat Releases
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/java-news-roundup-dec11-2023/
• BellSoft Released Liberica with CRaC for Improved Startup Speed of Applications
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/bellsoft-liberica-crac/
• Oracle Java Platform Extension for VSCode Delivers Comprehensive Support for Java Applications
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/oracle-java-vscode-extension/
• Quarkus 3.7 Will Require Java 17
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/quarkus-3-7-java-17/
• Launching the 2023 State of Rust Survey
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/12/18/survey-launch.html
• Microsoft Announces Small Language Model Phi-2
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/microsoft-llm-phi/

Articles

• Deprecated Features in Java 18 thru 21 – Sip of Java
  https://inside.java/2023/12/17/sip093/
• Tracking Java Native Memory With JDK Flight Recorder
  https://www.morling.dev/blog/tracking-java-native-memory-with-jdk-flight-recorder/
• Half a Year of Rust 🦀
  https://medium.com/comsystoreply/half-a-year-of-rust-9b5d1d7ede
• Introducing Gooey: My take on a Rusty GUI framework
  https://ecton.dev/introducing-gooey/
• Introducing Loco: The Rails of Rust
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/12/20/loco-rust-rails
• Write More, Talk Less: Building Organizational Resilience through Documentation and InnerSource
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/organizational-resilience-documentation/
• How Meta built the infrastructure for Threads
  https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/19/core-infra/how-meta-built-the-infrastructure-for-threads/
• Building Trust and Combating Abuse On Our Platform
  https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2023/casal–building-trust-and-combating-abuse—the-anti-abuse-core-
• Backpropagation in Neural Networks
  https://serokell.io/blog/understanding-backpropagation
• Mapped: Interest in Generative AI by Country
  https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-interest-in-generative-ai-by-country/
• 2023, year of open LLMs
  https://huggingface.co/blog/2023-in-llms
• AI debugging at Meta with HawkEye
  https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/19/data-infrastructure/hawkeye-ai-debugging-meta/
• VideoPoet: A large language model for zero-shot video generation
  https://blog.research.google/2023/12/videopoet-large-language-model-for-zero.html

Videos

• Java Highlights of 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxpHg_GzpnY
• Spring Office Hours: Episode 61 – Spring 2023 Recap
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RFq3lsnLS8
• Ok, Err, and some secret third thing
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2DQB4D-Qvg
• Eventual Consistency – Don’t Be Afraid!
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/eventual-consistent/
• 2023, in 13 minutes
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7H6kobw-lo
• AI Expert answers YOUR Questions
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Rs0bzab94
• Professor Chris Manning AI Q&A – Full Version
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe-4W1-mdIQ
• What’s the future for generative AI? – The Turing Lectures with Mike Wooldridge
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b76gsOSkHB4
• Hello Deep Learning • Bert Hubert • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1cNqV1bNEw
• Jerry Liu on the Future of AI: LlamaIndex, LLMs, RAG, Prompting and more
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZxl4gpe3OM

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News

• Java News Roundup: JDK 22, Spring CVEs, Liberica JDK, JDKMon 21, Jupyter for Java, Gradle 8.5
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/java-news-roundup-nov27-2023/
• JHipster 8 Upgrades to Spring Boot 3, Hibernate 6.2, Node 18 LTS, Vue 3 and Angular 16
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/jhipster-version8-release/
• Helidon 4 Adopts Virtual Threads: Explore the Increased Performance and Improved DevEx
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/helidon-4-adopts-virtual-threads/
• Announcing Rust 1.74.1
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/12/07/Rust-1.74.1.html

Articles

• JEP 457: Streamlining Java Development with the Class-File API
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/jep-457-new-class-file-api/
• Writing a CLI Tool in Rust with Clap
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/12/08/clap-rust
• Getting Started with Axum – Rust’s Most Popular Web Framework
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/12/06/using-axum-rust
• Diverging Functions – functions that never return
  https://rust.code-maven.com/diverging-functions
• Behind the Scenes of Rust String Formatting: format_args!()
  https://blog.m-ou.se/format-args/
• Upgrading GitHub.com to MySQL 8.0
  https://github.blog/2023-12-07-upgrading-github-com-to-mysql-8-0/
• Google Accused of Misleading With Gemini Announcement Video
  https://www.unite.ai/google-accused-of-misleading-with-gemini-announcement-video/
• Why GPUs Are Great for AI
  https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/why-gpus-are-great-for-ai/
• MatterGen: Property-guided materials design
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/mattergen-property-guided-materials-design/

Videos

• Java 22 Unpacking – Inside Java Newscast #59
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skXY0tD6i-M
• Getting Started with Generational ZGC
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpkbJGRCwRo
• AWS now officially supports Rust!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSN_NaHSfhE
• Does Rust solve the billion dollar mistake?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI8rWvxIOK8
• Rust’s lifetimes made easy
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-8M-5uQhKA
• T to &’static T
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFr85TkBwVs
• Rust Argon 2 Password Hashing with Multi-Scheme pattern
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E0zK5h9zEs
• 10 Learnings From Running Production Infrastructure at Google • Christof Leng • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNgaU_X8jdw
• Why AI Chess Bots Are Virtually Unbeatable (ft. GothamChess) | WIRED
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdFLEfRr3Qk
• Lucas Beyer (Google DeepMind) – Convergence of Vision & Language
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1Ha3tw6d4
• Tanishq Abraham (PhD at 19) – MedARC
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shkHEzSgCIU

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News

• Java News Roundup: Spring Boot 3.2, Spring Pulsar 1.0, Hibernate 6.4, JEP 447 Targeted to JDK 22
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/11/java-news-roundup-nov20-2023/
• Javet 3.0.2 Released: Bridging Java and JavaScript with Enhanced Features
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/javet-302-released/

Articles

• InfoQ Java Trends Report – November 2023
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-trends-report-2023/
• How to Aim For High JVM GC Throughput
  https://devm.io/java/java-gc-throughput-001
• Using Rust and Leptos to build beautiful, declarative UIs
  https://blog.logrocket.com/using-rust-leptos-build-beautiful-declarative-uis/
• How I Use Declarative Macros in Rust
  https://flinect.com/blog/quick-tips-rust-declarative-macros
• Rust temporary lifetimes and “super let”
  https://blog.m-ou.se/super-let/
• The Power of Prompting
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/the-power-of-prompting/
• Demystifying LLMs: How they can do things they weren’t trained to do
  https://github.blog/2023-10-27-demystifying-llms-how-they-can-do-things-they-werent-trained-to-do/
• The architecture of today’s LLM applications
  https://github.blog/2023-10-30-the-architecture-of-todays-llm-applications/
• How Many U.S. Businesses Use Artificial Intelligence?
  https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/11/businesses-use-ai.html

Videos

• Spring Office Hours: Episode 58 – Spring Boot 3.2
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opji4Hue4xM
• Axum 0.6 to 0.7 in 5 quick steps
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvWCX5ckuDE
• Intro to Large Language Models
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g

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