Newsletter – Week 12, 2023

About the project: Spring and Spring Boot Tutorial For Absolute Beginners – 10-in-1 – Spring to Spring Boot to REST API to Full Stack to Containers to Cloud.

HertzBeat

Total stars: 2368

Last month stars: 269

Growth: 11%

https://github.com/dromara/hertzbeat

About the project: a real-time monitoring system with custom-monitor and agentless. Aim to monitor everything! Web, database, os, middleware, cloudnative and more. Notified support discord, slack, email, telegram, dingding, wechat, feishu, webhook, sms.

Rust

Rust 101

Total stars: 1498

Last month stars: 1443

Growth: 96%

https://github.com/tweedegolf/101-rs

About the project: Rust 101 is a university course for computer science students, introducing the Rust Programming Language, and is available for anyone who wants to teach Rust.

ChatGPT

Total stars: 10498

Last month stars: 6566

Growth: 63%

https://github.com/lencx/ChatGPT

About the project: ChatGPT Desktop Application (Mac, Windows and Linux).

Rana

Total stars: 132

Last month stars: 79

Growth: 60%

https://github.com/grunch/rana

About the project: Nostr public key mining tool.

Ruff

Total stars: 7892

Last month stars: 2366

Growth: 30%

https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff

About the project: an extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust.

Vello

Total stars: 1078

Last month stars: 178

Growth: 17%

https://github.com/linebender/vello

About the project: an experimental GPU compute-centric 2D renderer.

Polars

Total stars: 13541

Last month stars: 1770

Growth: 13%

https://github.com/pola-rs/polars

About the project: fast multi-threaded, hybrid-out-of-core DataFrame library in Rust | Python | Node.js

utoipa

Total stars: 761

Last month stars: 97

Growth: 13%

https://github.com/juhaku/utoipa

About the project: simple, fast, code first, and compile time generated OpenAPI documentation for Rust.

Observations

ChatGPT is a hot topic all around the world and even across GitHub projects. In January 2023 edition there are projects related to ChatGPT in both categories. In the Java category, the project called “OpenAI-Java” provides an API client for ChatGPT. In the Rust category, there is a project called “ChatGPT” which is actually a desktop client for ChatGPC supporting Mac, Windows, and Linux.
The “HertzBeat” project from the Java category looks like a fresh player in the market of monitoring solutions.
If you just starting with Spring and Spring Boot the “Master Spring and Spring Boot” from the Java category might be very helpful for you.
If you are learning Rust the “Rust 101” project from the Rust category can be interesting for you. This project demonstrated extreme growth in January 2023.

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Newsletter – Week 07, 2023

February 20, 2023 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 20 RC1, Open Liberty, Micronaut, Helidon, Hibernate, Groovy, Grails
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/02/java-news-roundup-feb06-2023/
Quality Outreach Heads-up – JDK 20: Deprecate URL Public Constructors
https://inside.java/2023/02/15/quality-heads-up/
US Air Force Tactical Fighter Flown by Artificial Intelligence for First Time
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2023/02/14/us-fighter-artificial-intelligence/

Articles

JDK 21: Image Performance Improvements
https://minborgsjavapot.blogspot.com/2023/02/jdk-21-image-performance-improvements.html
Null safety: Kotlin vs. Java
https://blog.frankel.ch/null-safety-java-vs-kotlin/
How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/14/1067869/rust-worlds-fastest-growing-programming-language/
Rust vs. Haskell
https://serokell.io/blog/rust-vs-haskell
How to build polymorphic components in Rust
https://blog.logrocket.com/build-polymorphic-components-rust/
How to define higher-order functions in Rust
https://blog.logrocket.com/define-higher-order-functions-rust/
Demystifying Rust’s lazy_static pattern
https://blog.logrocket.com/rust-lazy-static-pattern/
Rust to WebAssembly the hard way
https://surma.dev/things/rust-to-webassembly/index.html
Retrospectives Antipatterns
https://martinfowler.com/articles/retrospective-antipatterns.html
What is Microsoft’s approach to AI?
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/microsoft-approach-to-ai/

Videos

Java ExecutorService Using Virtual Threads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2sskKGnCqc
From Java Security with Love – Inside Java Newscast #42
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olgii0eWu88
Video: Project Panama and the Foreign Function and Memory API
http://minborgsjavapot.blogspot.com/2023/02/video-project-panama-and-foreign.html
How To Configure Cloud-Native Quarkus Projects
https://blog.sebastian-daschner.com/entries/configure-cloud-native-quarkus
How to find a job in Generative AI and what is it like? With the VP of R&D at D-ID Or Gorodissky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPj4_SrFykw
Do you need a Master’s in Generative AI? With Or Gorodissky VP of R&D at D-ID
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te072BUjvSc
UK’s Conservation AI Makes Huge Leap Detecting Threats to Endangered Species Across the Globe
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/02/16/conservation-ai-detects-threats-to-endangered-species/

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Newsletter – Week 06, 2023

February 12, 2023 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Helidon 4.0-Alpha4, Spring, GlassFish, Quarkus, Ktor, (Re)Introducing RIFE2
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/02/java-news-roundup-jan30-2023/
Microsoft OpenJDK Introduces Experimental Feature for Improving Escape Analysis
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/02/microsoft-openjdk-feature/
JobRunr, the Java Scheduler Library, Releases Version 6.0
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/02/jobrunr-scheduler-java/
Announcing Rust 1.67.1
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/02/09/Rust-1.67.1.html

Articles

Memory Types in JVM
https://www.baeldung.com/java-jvm-memory-types
Programmatically Listen to JUnit Test Results
https://blog.sebastian-daschner.com/entries/junit-test-result-listener
A Case for Rust in Deep Learning
https://burn-rs.github.io/blog/a-case-for-rust-in-deep-learning
Three layers to secure a software development organization
https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/02/09/three-layers-to-secure-a-software-development-organization/
Multimodal Learning in ML
https://serokell.io/blog/multimodal-machine-learning

Videos

The Golden Path to SpringOne: Concurrency Control in Event-Driven Architectures with Gerard Klijs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-e04vjgvRw
Should you learn Rust in 2023?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CbLuNqGpz0
Rust Branching – if let, match
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT3BH0m_MMY
The Pipeline-Driven Organization by Roy Osherove – GOTO 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmA5fhV-FGk
What is MLOps and how to get started?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdLFJUlPa4Y

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GitHub Trends – December 2022

February 9, 2023 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

Welcome to Java and Rust GitHub trends December 2022 edition. Let’s get started!

Java

EhViewer

Total stars: 1906

Last month stars: 378

Growth: 20%

https://github.com/Ehviewer-Overhauled/Ehviewer

About the project: EhViewer fork is dedicated to lightweight and high-performance with Material Design 3 and Dynamic Color Support.

GoogleDialerMod

Total stars: 403

Last month stars: 45

Growth: 11%

https://github.com/jacopotediosi/GoogleDialerMod

About the project: the ultimate All-In-One Utility to tweak Google Dialer.

UI for Apache Kafka

Total stars: 4543

Last month stars: 466

Growth: 10%

https://github.com/provectus/kafka-ui

About the project: versatile, fast, and lightweight web UI for managing Apache Kafka® clusters. Built by developers, for developers.

Rust

Reth

Total stars: 944

Last month stars: 942

Growth: 100%

https://github.com/paradigmxyz/reth

About the project: modular, contributor-friendly and blazing-fast implementation of the Ethereum protocol.

burn

Total stars: 1185

Last month stars: 477

Growth: 40%

https://github.com/burn-rs/burn

About the project: this library aims to be a complete deep learning framework with extreme flexibility written in Rust. The goal would be to satisfy researchers as well as practitioners making it easier to experiment, train and deploy your models.

Ruff

Total stars: 5479

Last month stars: 1841

Growth: 34%

https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff

About the project: an extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust.

sniffnet

Total stars: 2622

Last month stars: 771

Growth: 29%

https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet

About the project: an application to comfortably monitor your network traffic, multithreaded, cross-platform, and reliable.

Polars

Total stars: 11683

Last month stars: 2186

Growth: 19%

https://github.com/pola-rs/polars

About the project: Polars is a blazingly fast DataFrames library implemented in Rust using Apache Arrow Columnar Format as the memory model.

Observations

There are no clear trending projects in the Java category in December 2022.
Nowadays many organizations have Kafka in their technology stack. The “UI for Apache Kafka” project interesting and promising project to include in your toolset. As it is claimed on the project page – built by developers, for developers.
The project growth trends in the Rust category are incredible. It is clearly visible that Rust is a “hot” topic in the development community.
The “burn” project from the Rust category seems something really needed. A deep learning framework with a focus on researchers and practitioners. I would like to see more AI/ML-oriented projects coming in this category.

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Newsletter – Week 05, 2023

February 5, 2023 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 20 in Rampdown Phase 2, New JEP Drafts, JobRunr 6.0, GraalVM 22.3.1
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/java-news-roundup-jan23-2023/
Announcing Rustup 1.25.2
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/02/01/Rustup-1.25.2.html
GraalVM Native Image on RISC-V
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/02/graalvm-native-image-risc-v/
Mockito 5 Supports Mocking Constructors, Static Methods and Final Classes out of the Box
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/mockito-5/

Articles

Rust Foundation Annual Report 2022
https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/rust-foundation-annual-report-2022/
40x Faster! We rewrote our project with Rust!
https://medium.com/@xpf6677/40x-faster-we-rewrote-our-project-with-rust-120b006c6abe
Pinning Rust async data types for memory safety
https://blog.logrocket.com/pinning-rust-async-data-types-memory-safety/
Ordering Numbers, How Hard Can It Be?
https://orlp.net/blog/ordering-numbers/
Asynchronous computing at Meta: Overview and learnings
https://engineering.fb.com/2023/01/31/production-engineering/meta-asynchronous-computing/
Exclusive Q&A: John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence
https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-different-path-to-artificial-general-intelligence/
AI models spit out photos of real people and copyrighted images
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/03/1067786/ai-models-spit-out-photos-of-real-people-and-copyrighted-images/
Real-time tracking of wildfire boundaries using satellite imagery
https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/02/real-time-tracking-of-wildfire.html

Videos

Java Modules in Real Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqnwQp1uHuY
Spring Office Hours: Episode 27 – SpringOne Essentials Recap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUJ-fcg3XII
An AI Better Than Most Musicians? The DALLE for music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTrYIGxOuKQ
Stanford Webinar – GPT-3 & Beyond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lnHHWRCDGk
AI can’t beat mathematicians – with Junaid Mubeen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5p5USQhEyY

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