Newsletter – Week 12, 2024

March 25, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java 22 Delivers Foreign Memory & Memory API, Unnamed Variables & Patterns, and Return of JavaOne
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/03/java22-released/
JavaOne Returns to the San Francisco Bay Area!
https://inside.java/2024/03/19/announcing-javaone-2025/
Java users on macOS 14 running on Apple silicon systems should consider delaying the macOS 14.4 update
https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/java-on-macos-14-4
WildFly 31 Delivers Support for Jakarta EE 10 and the New WildFly Glow Provisioning Tools
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/03/wildfly-31-jakartaee10-glow/
Java News Roundup: New JEP Drafts, Infinispan 15, Payara Platform, Alpaquita Containers with CRaC
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/03/java-news-roundup-mar11-2024/
Announcing Rust 1.77.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/03/21/Rust-1.77.0.html
2024 Edition Update
https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2024/03/22/2024-edition-update.html

Articles

The Arrival of Java 22!
https://inside.java/2024/03/19/the-arrival-of-java-22/
JDK 22 Security Enhancements
https://seanjmullan.org/blog/2024/03/20/jdk22
The “Spring Way” of Doing Things: 9 Ways to Improve Your Spring Boot Skills
https://foojay.io/today/how-to-improve-your-spring-boot-skills/
Everything you need to know about testing in Rust
https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/03/21/testing-in-rust
Go’s Errors: How I Learned to Love Rust
https://barretts.club/posts/go-errors/
Building a Notification Service in Rust with AWS SNS
https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/03/20/notification-service-rust
Actix Web adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives
https://blog.logrocket.com/actix-web-adoption-guide/
Migrating a JavaScript frontend to Leptos, a Rust framework
https://blog.logrocket.com/migrating-javascript-frontend-leptos-rust-framework/
What part of Rust compilation is the bottleneck?
https://kobzol.github.io/rust/rustc/2024/03/15/rustc-what-takes-so-long.html
Cloud Native Software Development
https://serokell.io/blog/cloud-native-software-development
Intelligent monitoring: Towards AI-assisted monitoring for cloud services
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/intelligent-monitoring-towards-ai-assisted-monitoring-for-cloud-services/
Bye Bye Bye…: Evolution of repeated token attacks on ChatGPT models
https://dropbox.tech/machine-learning/bye-bye-bye-evolution-of-repeated-token-attacks-on-chatgpt-models

Videos

OpenJDK Project Wakefield – The Wayland Desktop for JDK on Linux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gfZDx6IOD4
Java Project Loom: Why Should I Care? • Erwin de Gier • GOTO 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylxRLx9BuWA
Spring Office Hours: S3E10 – Batch Processing with Spring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Os62f_KDPs
The magic of Rust’s type system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDIU1GSBrVI
Write your own HTTP server 🦀 Learn Rust Creatively
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn64haI8mOI
Beyond GenAI: What’s Next for the Enterprise? • Andrew Turner • GOTO 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUJ_ECHUi-s
AI/ML+Physics Part 4: Crafting a Loss Function [Physics Informed Machine Learning]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SNkQ8jhKXc
AI and Education: Exploring the Future of Learning and AI with Luis Serrano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twd1n-VOZDs
Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqFAi7vkBc

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Newsletter – Week 11, 2024

March 21, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JHipster Blueprints, Jox Channel Library, Infinispan 15.0 Release Candidate
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/03/java-news-roundup-mar04-2024/
Announcing Rustup 1.27.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/03/11/Rustup-1.27.0.html
crates.io: Download changes
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/03/11/crates-io-download-changes.html

Articles

How Oracle Separates Java Pricing from Value
https://foojay.io/today/how-oracle-separates-java-pricing-from-value/
Rust Multi-crate project in a monorepo
https://rust.code-maven.com/multi-crate-project
Building a Simple Web Server in Rust
https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/03/13/simple-web-server-rust
Using PostHog with Rust
https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/03/14/using-posthog-rust
Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans
https://martinfowler.com/articles/measuring-developer-productivity-humans.html
Good engineers, bad engineers, and evil engineers — an anecdote for data leaders
https://towardsdatascience.com/good-engineers-bad-engineers-and-evil-engineers-an-anecdote-for-data-leaders-6cceb82c8c3e
AWS Lambda under the Hood
https://www.infoq.com/articles/aws-lambda-under-the-hood/
What I learned from looking at 900 most popular open source AI tools
https://huyenchip.com/2024/03/14/ai-oss.html
Best AI Tools for Industries
https://serokell.io/blog/ai-tools-for-industries
Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-next-generation-model-february-2024/
Lyft’s Reinforcement Learning Platform
https://eng.lyft.com/lyfts-reinforcement-learning-platform-670f77ff46ec
Optimizing RTC bandwidth estimation with machine learning
https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/20/networking-traffic/optimizing-rtc-bandwidth-estimation-machine-learning/

Videos

Java 22 Release Notes Review!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T64dUc0wIZ0
Java In The Cloud with GraalVM • Alina Yurenko • GOTO 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QeLcJN0QLc
Voxxed Days Zurich 2024
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRsbF2sD7JVrJJWeSPM7WjYNO42O-aF_o
The rise of AI in medical treatments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPPoMo-o-eo
InstructPix2Pix (w/ OpenAI’s Tim Brooks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPXGQRes0co

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Newsletter – Week 10, 2024

March 11, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: New OpenJDK JEPs, Spring Functions Catalog, Apache Kafka, Quarkus, JReleaser
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/03/java-news-roundup-feb26-2024/
JDK 22 and JDK 23: What We Know So Far
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/03/java-22-so-far/

Articles

Bending pause times to your will with Generational ZGC
https://netflixtechblog.com/bending-pause-times-to-your-will-with-generational-zgc-256629c9386b
Using Stripe Payments with Rust
https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/03/07/stripe-payments-rust
In Rust we trust? White House Office urges memory safety
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/03/04/in-rust-we-trust-white-house-office-urges-memory-safety/
Secure by Design: Google’s Perspective on Memory Safety
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/03/secure-by-design-googles-perspective-on.html
Hard and soft skills for developers coding in the age of AI
https://github.blog/2024-03-07-hard-and-soft-skills-for-developers-coding-in-the-age-of-ai/

Videos

Modern Java in Action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UDwrfTNmo4
Voxxed Days Ioannina 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtcTMqFyrFs&list=PLRsbF2sD7JVqxKBGlYVKWS7-TmjTTjwpb&pp=iAQB
Spring Office Hours: S3E8 – Resources for learning Spring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0u9XaCyWPo
Spring Tips: the Spring Authorization Server: durability of data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVsKQ4dp_pQ
Build a Breakout Clone with Rust 🦀 and Bevy 🕹️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyN9c8-a49Q
Build Abstractions Not Illusions • Gregor Hohpe • YOW! 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWZFRk-w3ng
From PhD to AI Innovation: Learn How to Build Products That Change the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrIbucEnOUU
GPT-Fast – blazingly fast inference with PyTorch (w/ Horace He)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18YupYsH5vY
AI/ML+Physics Part 3: Designing an Architecture [Physics Informed Machine Learning]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiX8c-4K0-Q
Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t1vTLU7s40

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AddressShuffleMode in Spring AMQP

March 7, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

There is an important configuration parameter in the Spring AMQP project CachingConnectionFactory class to understand how your application will connect to the RabbitMQ cluster. Let’s talk a little bit about this parameter.

AddressShuffleMode configuration parameter is used to specify the strategy used to connect the client library to the RabbitMQ cluster. This parameter is actual only when you have multiple host names provided in the spring.rabbitmq.addresses configuration property and it defines in which order the client will try to connect the nodes provided.

This configuration parameter has 3 possible values:

Value	Description	Comment
INORDER	Shuffle the addresses after opening a connection, moving the first address to the end.	available since version 2.3
NONE	Do not shuffle the addresses before or after opening a connection; attempt connections in a fixed order.	default before version 3.0
RANDOM	Randomly shuffle the addresses before opening a connection; attempt connections in the new order.	default starting version 3.0

You can define the required mode while creating CachingConnectionFactory instance:

@Bean
public CachingConnectionFactory ccf() {
    CachingConnectionFactory ccf = new CachingConnectionFactory();
    ccf.setAddresses("host1:5672,host2:5672,host3:5672");
    ccf.setAddressShuffleMode(AddressShuffleMode.INORDER);
    return ccf;
}

Each of these modes has its own benefits and drawbacks. Let’s review them now.

Mode	Benefits	Drawbacks
INORDER	guarantee all addresses are attempted before retrying the first	if the first address is not available for some reason will trigger the error before retrying to the next one
NONE	simple and predictable behavior good when you have specific knowledge about the RabbitMQ nodes health status or you have specific RabbitMQ cluster configuration	if the first address is not available for some reason will trigger the error before retrying to the next one the first address can be overloaded with all connections coming there
RANDOM	spreads connection attempts across all available addresses, potentially improving the chances of successful connection	introduces non-deterministic behavior, making troubleshooting potential connection issues more difficult

Now, with all these details you can decide which AddressShuffleMode configuration is more applicable to your particular scenario. This parameter is equally important to understand from both the consumer and producer sides to make sure the configurations used for the producer and consumer are compatible and provide the best possible result.

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Newsletter – Week 09, 2024

March 4, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 22 RC2, Multiple Releases in the Spring Ecosystem, Payara Platform
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/02/java-news-roundup-feb19-2024/
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 Delivers Support for Jakarta EE 10
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/03/jboss-eap-8/
Clippy: Deprecating feature = "cargo-clippy"
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/28/Clippy-deprecating-feature-cargo-clippy.html

Articles

Builders, Withers, and Records: Java’s path to immutability
https://foojay.io/today/builders-withers-and-records-javas-path-to-immutability/
Practical guide to Error Handling in Rust
https://dev-state.com/posts/error_handling/
A Full Stack SaaS Template with Loco
https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/02/29/fullstack-loco-rust
Building a RAG Web Service with Qdrant and Rust
https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/02/28/rag-llm-rust
Async Rust in a Nutshell
https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/02/29/async-rust
Open sourcing Pingora: our Rust framework for building programmable network services
https://blog.cloudflare.com/pingora-open-source
Reinforcement Learning: How It Works
https://serokell.io/blog/reinforcement-learning-guide

Videos

(Dirty?) Tricks in Java 22 – Inside Java Newscast #64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ljQzMRtGy4
Project Leyden: Capturing Lightning in a Bottle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlJK5BKXtHI
Java’s Custom Runtime Builder – jlink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UCBmdbeYm4
Java 17 to 21: A Showcase of JDK Security Enhancements
https://inside.java/2024/03/03/jfokus-jdk-security-changes/
How Netflix Really Uses Java
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/netflix-java/
Spring Tips: the Spring Authorization Server: securing SPAs and messaging flows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3aLjH2VPzU
Spring Office Hours: S3E7 – Spring AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X9X5Y2ltxY
Modern All Rust Stack – Dioxus, Axum, Warp, SurrealDB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr6T0Phjvgc
There’s No Such Thing As Plain Text • Dylan Beattie • YOW! 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajfb5LSbQVM
The State of Application Security 2023 • Sebastian Brandes • GOTO 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX0TVzHOJgQ
How does Groq LPU work? (w/ Head of Silicon Igor Arsovski!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQDMKTEgQnY
10 AI Companies Transforming the future of news
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE3BgEC7dSs
AI/ML+Physics Part 2: Curating Training Data [Physics Informed Machine Learning]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-S0m2zcKUg

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