News

• Java News Roundup: Stream Gatherers, Project Loom, Hibernate Validator, LangChain4j, Clojure
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/09/java-news-roundup-sep02-2024/

Articles

• Java heap memory and garbage collection: tuning for high-performance services
  https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/infrastructure/java-heap-memory-and-garbage-collection-tuning-for-high-performance-services
• How we Built 300μs Typo Detection for 1.3M Words in Rust
  https://trieve.ai/building-blazingly-fast-typo-correction-in-rust/
• Compressing strings with FSST
  https://blog.spiraldb.com/compressing-strings-with-fsst/
• An Optimization That’s Impossible in Rust!
  https://tunglevo.com/note/an-optimization-thats-impossible-in-rust/
• Better-performing “25519” elliptic-curve cryptography
  https://www.amazon.science/blog/better-performing-25519-elliptic-curve-cryptography
• DataMesh: How Uber laid the foundations for the data lake cloud migration
  https://www.uber.com/blog/datamesh/
• One of the best ways to get value for AI coding tools: generating tests
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/10/gen-ai-llm-create-test-developers-coding-software-code-quality/
• 2024 Innovator of the Year: Shawn Shan builds tools to help artists fight back against exploitative AI
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/10/1102936/innovator-year-shawn-shan-2024/

Videos

• Java – Integrity by Default
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNQKRBLbKIs
• Rust stole C++’s best features
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjsnuirLyKM
• Not Just Memory Safety: How Rust Helps Maintain Efficient Software
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/rust-efficient-software/
• The C4 Model – Misconceptions, Misuses & Mistakes • Simon Brown • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqoU2C-USP0
• Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) • Charity Majors • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag2ykPO805M
• Highly Scalable Image Storage with AWS Serverless • Vadym Kazulkin & Firdaws Aboulaye • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCl1BViHK-s
• Decoding Google Gemini with Jeff Dean
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH74gNeryhQ
• The Best RAG Stack Components to date (fully open-source!)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyaMmSXxH2w
• ChatGPT Demo of Strawberry (model o1-preview) — Hallucination Killer?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlZjzXw3YsI
• Is OpenAI’s latest o1 model that good?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICzPJ8zJRhY

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News

• Java News Roundup: Class-File API, GlassFish, JHipster, JReleaser, Hibernate Search, Micronaut
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/09/java-news-roundup-aug26-2024/
• Java Visual Studio Code Extension Update
  https://inside.java/2024/09/07/vscode-extension-update/
• Announcing Rust 1.81.0
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/09/05/Rust-1.81.0.html
• Changes to impl Trait in Rust 2024
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/09/05/impl-trait-capture-rules.html
• Alibaba Releases Two Open-Weight Language Models for Math and Voice Chat
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/09/alibaba-qwen2-models/
• Grok-2 Beta Version Released on X Platform
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/09/grok-x-llm/

Articles

• Java 23: What’s New?
  https://foojay.io/today/java-23-whats-new/
• Top Security Flaws Hiding In Your Code Right Now: And How To Fix Them
  https://foojay.io/today/top-security-flaws-hiding-in-your-code-right-now-and-how-to-fix-them/
• How to deadlock Tokio application in Rust with just a single mutex
  https://turso.tech/blog/how-to-deadlock-tokio-application-in-rust-with-just-a-single-mutex
• Deploying Rust in Existing Firmware Codebases
  https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/deploying-rust-in-existing-firmware.html
• Best practices for cost-efficient Kafka clusters
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/04/best-practices-for-cost-efficient-kafka-clusters/
• Lucene: Uber’s Search Platform Version Upgrade
  https://www.uber.com/blog/lucene-version-upgrade/
• Elevate Access Token Security by Demonstrating Proof-of-Possession
  https://developer.okta.com/blog/2024/09/05/dpop-oauth
• InfoQ AI, ML and Data Engineering Trends Report – September 2024
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/ai-ml-data-engineering-trends-2024/
• The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2024 | TIME
  https://time.com/collection/time100-ai-2024/
• AI and Blockchain Convergence
  https://serokell.io/blog/ai-blockchain-integration

Videos

• A New Model for Java Object Initialization
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThtrTwooKDc
• Project Lilliput – Beyond Compact Headers
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHJ1moNLwao
• JEP Explained. JEP480: Structured Concurrency
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-LyK5LU3mM
• Frustration-Free K8S for Spring Developers (SpringOne 2024)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr9HWiM3aII
• Spring Tips: One-Time Tokens in Spring Security 6.4
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otdPVawMXUU
• Rust’s next major update is coming…
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZU8kQNjAcc
• Let’s split a Rust crate – Rust live coding
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS5KOz9y7Cg
• The Best Programmer I Know • Daniel Terhorst-North • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgaKAF_eiOg
• Transforming Developer Experience: A Tale of Recovery & Innovation • Michaela Greiler • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HFRiBc0JZs
• Stanford ECON295/CS323 I 2024 I Business of AI, Reid Hoffman
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXjLGn14Jo4

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News

• Java News Roundup: JDK 23-RC2, MicroProfile 7.0, Infinispan, Maven, JHipster
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/08/java-news-roundup-aug19-2024/
• Spring News Roundup: Milestone Releases for Spring Boot, Cloud, Security, Session and Spring AI
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/08/spring-news-roundup-aug19-2024/
• 2024 Leadership Council Survey
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/08/26/council-survey.html
• Microsoft Launches Open-Source Phi-3.5 Models for Advanced AI Development
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/08/microsoft-phi-3-5/

Articles

• Why Amazon, Cloduflare and Discord are building servers in Rust but you should probably not
  https://kerkour.com/rust-is-bad-for-servers
• I sped up serde_json strings by 20%
  https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/i-sped-up-serde-json-strings-by-20-percent/
• Doctests – How were they improved?
  https://blog.guillaume-gomez.fr/articles/2024-08-17+Doctests+-+How+were+they+improved%3F
• MiniJinja: Learnings from Building a Template Engine in Rust
  https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/8/27/minijinja/
• Continuous deployment for large monorepos
  https://www.uber.com/blog/continuous-deployment
• 25 Free Datasets for ML Pros Across Industries
  https://serokell.io/blog/free-ml-datasets
• AI is draining the electric grid – this energy tech will save us
  https://www.smart-energy.com/industry-sectors/digitalisation/ai-is-draining-the-electric-grid-this-energy-tech-will-save-us/
• Gemma explained: RecurrentGemma architecture
  https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemma-explained-recurrentgemma-architecture/

Videos

• Project Leyden Update
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOPSU4LnKg0
• Best of Java Performance – Inside Java Newscast
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52E9bZvoB-g
• Type Specialization of Java Generics – What If Casts Have Teeth ?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI09cs2yUgY
• The Keys to Developer Productivity: Collaborate and Innovate
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/java-developer-productivity/
• SpringOne 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S6M8H2hz6w&list=PLgGXSWYM2FpPDrv8zmf3oN6SX1prqmESN&pp=iAQB
• 9 Rust Best Practices – Async, Project Files, Versioning (Part 3/3)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93SS3VGsKx4
• Ultimate Neovim setup for Rust development
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2mKJ73M9pg
• How might LLMs store facts | Chapter 7, Deep Learning
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Jl0dxWQs8
• A Fun & Absurd Introduction to Vector Databases • Alexander Chatzizacharias • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hAGhmHNTQQ
• AI Assistance Beyond Code: What Do We Need to Make it Work? • Birgitta Böckeler • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jwiABwGC6c
• Stanford Webinar – Identifying AI Opportunities: Strategies for Market Success
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNqpySV97IU

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