Newsletter – Week 22, 2022

About the project: Kestra is an infinitely scalable orchestration and scheduling platform, creating, running, scheduling, and monitoring millions of complex pipelines.

ja-netfilter

Total stars: 6603

Last month stars: 985

Growth: 15%

https://github.com/ja-netfilter/ja-netfilter

About the project: a javaagent framework.

Airbyte

Total stars: 6579

Last month stars: 396

Growth: 7%

https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte

About the project: Airbyte is an open-source EL(T) platform that helps you replicate your data in your warehouses, lakes and databases.

Termux

Total stars: 12499

Last month stars: 651

Growth: 5%

https://github.com/termux/termux-app

About the project: Termux – a terminal emulator application for Android OS extendible by variety of packages.

Rust

Foundry

Total stars: 634

Last month stars: 523

Growth: 82%

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

About the project: Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust.

Aptos-core

Total stars: 1192

Last month stars: 865

Growth: 73%

https://github.com/aptos-labs/aptos-core

About the project: Aptos-core strives towards being the safest and most scalable layer one blockchain solution. Today, this powers the Aptos Devnet, tomorrow Mainnet in order to create universal and fair access to decentralized assets for billions of people

Helix

Total stars: 8669

Last month stars: 1942

Growth: 22%

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix

About the project: A post-modern modal text editor.

Weylus

Total stars: 3117

Last month stars: 636

Growth: 20%

https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus

About the project: use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.

Wez’s Terminal

Total stars: 4233

Last month stars: 424

Growth: 10%

https://github.com/wez/wezterm

About the project: A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust.

axum

Total stars: 4595

Last month stars: 456

Growth: 10%

https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum

About the project: axum is a web application framework that focuses on ergonomics and modularity (built with Tokio, Tower, and Hyper).

Observations

Kestra looks interesting from the product side and is definitely worth trying. A plugin-based extension model looks promising for product evolution.
The Android applications are still present in Java reports.
Such Rust projects as Foundry and Aptos showed dramatic growth in April proving one more time that cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies are the hot topics in the Rust world.
System utilities are one of the largest categories for the Rust projects on GitHub.
axum looks pretty interesting and popular web application development framework in the Rust world with already 4595 stars on Github. For example, in the Java world, Quarkus has 9955 stars and Micronaut (core) has 5337 stars.

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Newsletter – Week 19, 2022

May 16, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JEPs for Projects Loom and Panama, JobRunr 5.1.0, Kotlin 1.7.0 Preview
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/05/java-news-roundup-may02-2022/
Security advisory: malicious crate rustdecimal
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/05/10/malicious-crate-rustdecimal.html
The 2022 Developer Survey is now open
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/05/11/stack-overflow-2022-developer-survey-is-open/
U.S. EEOC and U.S. Department of Justice Warn against Disability Discrimination
https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/us-eeoc-and-us-department-justice-warn-against-disability-discrimination

Articles

11 Puzzles from JDK11: Hanno Embregts on Java Certification at Devoxx UK
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/05/11-puzzlers-jdk11/
JEP 425: Java Virtual Threads to Deliver Improved Throughput
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/05/virtual-threads-for-jdk19/
Serialize a Lambda in Java
https://www.baeldung.com/java-serialize-lambda
Sip of Java – JFR Event Stream
https://inside.java/2022/05/12/sip49/
Reactive Architecture with Spring Boot
https://reflectoring.io/reactive-architecture-with-spring-boot/
Over-Engineering A Fairly Simple Coding Challenge
https://ada-x64.github.io/over-engineering/
Converting Integers to Floats Using Hyperfocus
https://blog.m-ou.se/floats/
A Beginner’s Guide to Application Security
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2022/05/09/beginners-app-sec
Failing Forward — How We Grow from Incidents
https://engineering.atspotify.com/2022/05/failing-forward-how-we-grow-from-incidents/
A Search Solution For Video Archive
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cse/2022/05/13/a-search-solution-for-video-archive/
Improving Distributed Caching Performance and Efficiency at Pinterest
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/improving-distributed-caching-performance-and-efficiency-at-pinterest-92484b5fe39b
A quick guide to the most important AI law you’ve never heard of
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/05/13/1052223/guide-ai-act-europe/

Videos

Moving the Java Community Forward
https://inside.java/2022/05/09/moving-the-java-community-forward/
Java Next – From Amber to Loom, from Panama to Valhalla
https://inside.java/2022/05/09/java-next/
Building micro-services in Rust using gRPC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkSa-qA2jnY
Single-node Kubernetes Clusters Using K3s with Benefits of GitOps by Lasse Højgaard – GOTO 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePyFJ7Hd57Q
Present and Future of the Microservice Architecture
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/present-future-microservices-architecture/
Gato: A single Transformer to RuLe them all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZKSWNv6Esc

Newsletter – Week 18, 2022

May 8, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JEP Updates for JDK 19, Project Loom, MicroStream 7.0, New Relic Java Survey
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/05/java-news-roundup-apr25-2022/
Quarkus 2.8.0 Introduces Fine-Grained Transaction API
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/05/quarkus-2-8-0/
JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1 Introduces Dependency Analysis
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/05/jetbrains-intellij-2022-1/

Articles

Static Java: Current State
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/05/static-java-state-2022/
Cloud Native Java with the Micronaut Framework
https://www.infoq.com/articles/native-java-micronaut/
Getting Started to Quarkus Reactive Messaging with Apache Kafka
https://www.infoq.com/articles/data-with-quarkus-kafka/
Patching Cargo Dependencies
https://gatowololo.github.io/blog/cargo-patch/
Scaling the Walmart Inventory Reservations API for Peak Traffic
https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/scaling-the-walmart-inventory-reservations-api-for-peak-traffic-9ba37833ef9d
Zero-Trust: Examining Security Practices for Kubernetes
https://jaxenter.com/kubernetes-security-177293.html
The Benefits of GDPR for Application Security
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2022/05/03/gdpr-and-app-security
GitHub Availability Report: April 2022
https://github.blog/2022-05-04-github-availability-report-april-2022/

Videos

JDK 8 to JDK 18 in Garbage Collection: 10 Releases, 2000+ Enhancements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BpY132mKm0
WHEN and NULL In Pattern Matching – Inside Java Newscast #24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENX5kHblFlY
My 9 + 1 Core Software Performance Optimization Principles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULlFWomaPVw
Async Rust: Portability and Interoperability – Nick Cameron – Rust Linz, April 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxxLQsxJve8
Rust for the Kubernetes Ecosystem – Deepu K Sasidharan – Rust Linz, April 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9icztoT4JVs
Stanford Seminar – Design in an Automated Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0_YBBO0nwM
Hyperbolic Graph Convolutional Networks | Geometric ML Paper Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPMA5CmFcXc

Newsletter – Week 17, 2022

May 1, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Vector API, Spring Updates and CVE, Payara Platform, Groovy and TomEE Updates
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/04/java-news-roundup-apr18-2022/
Hibernate ORM 6.0 Delivers Improved Performance
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/04/red-hat-releases-hibernate-6/
JobRunr 5.0.0 Delivers Improved Framework Support
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/04/jobrunr-5-0-0/
JReleaser 1.0: Talking to the Early Adopters of the Release Automation Tool
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/04/jreleaser-v1-community/

Articles

Building a WebAuthn Application with Java
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2022/04/26/webauthn-java
Getting Started to Quarkus Reactive Messaging with Apache Kafka
https://www.infoq.com/articles/data-with-quarkus-kafka/
Why Write an Empty finalize() Method?
https://stuartmarks.wordpress.com/2022/04/27/why-write-an-empty-finalize-method/
Custom JDK Flight Recorder Events – Sip of Java
https://inside.java/2022/04/25/sip48/
Garbage Collection tuning success story – reducing young gen size
https://jaxenter.com/gc-tuning-success-177259.html
ZGC | What’s new in JDK 18
https://malloc.se/blog/zgc-jdk18
New language features since Java 8 to 18
https://advancedweb.hu/new-language-features-since-java-8-to-18/
A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 18
https://advancedweb.hu/a-categorized-list-of-all-java-and-jvm-features-since-jdk-8-to-18/
What a better Rust would look like
https://kerkour.com/what-a-better-rust-would-look-like
What is raw identifier in rust?
https://inspektor.cloud/blog/raw-identifier-in-rust/
Rust traits and dependency injection
https://jmmv.dev/2022/04/rust-traits-and-dependency-injection.html
How hard upgrading a Rust JWT library could be?
https://blog.orhun.dev/upgrading-rust-jwt/
Indirect ownership, shallow borrow and self-referential data structures
https://yoyo-code.com/indirect-ownership-and-self-borrow/
Design-First Approach to API Development: How to Implement and Why It Works
https://www.infoq.com/articles/design-first-api-development/
Kubernetes Is Here to Stay: This Is Why
https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/state-of-kubernetes-2022
That time we unplugged a data center to test our disaster readiness
https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/disaster-readiness-test-failover-blackhole-sjc
Machine Learning in Healthcare: 9 Future Trends to Watch
https://www.analyticsinsight.net/machine-learning-in-healthcare-9-future-trends-to-watch/
Brains On Code: EU funding in the millions for pioneering research on brain activity during program comprehension
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/950837
Google Colab for Machine Learning Projects
https://machinelearningmastery.com/google-colab-for-machine-learning-projects/

Videos

Prototyping in Rust with the todo!() macro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdPVCGfZ8sI
Conditional compilation Cargo Features
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkHhwYJaP0U
Event-Based Architectures: the Hard Parts
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/event-driven-arch-challenges/
The Best AI Face Manipulation to Date
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNWAEvFfFvQ
These Language Models Talk to Each Other! | Socratic Models
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qg51RILU0w
Understanding over-squashing and bottlenecks on graphs via curvature | Ricci Flow | Paper Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpDdvI95igc

Newsletter – Week 16, 2022

April 24, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: CVE-2022-22968, Vector API, Jakarta EE 10 Update, IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1, Ktor 2.0
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/04/java-news-roundup-apr11-2022/

Articles

How To Use switch In Modern Java
https://nipafx.dev/java-switch/
Spring Boot Configuration Properties Migrator
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-properties-migrator
Spring Security – Map Authorities from JWT
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-security-map-authorities-jwt
A Quick Guide to Regular Expressions in Java
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2022/04/19/java-regex
Use GitHub Actions to Build GraalVM Native Images
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2022/04/22/github-actions-graalvm
Native Java in the Real World
https://www.infoq.com/articles/native-java-real-world/
We asked 5 people why they like Embedded Rust
https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/70/we-asked-5-people-why-they-like-embedded-rust
Chopping the monolith
https://blog.frankel.ch/chopping-monolith/
Imposter Syndrome
https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2022/04/19/imposter-syndrome.html
New data: Do developers think Web3 will build a better internet?
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/04/20/new-data-developers-web3/
Continuous Delivery at Airbnb
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/continuous-delivery-at-airbnb-6ac042bc7876
Addressing the last mile problem with MySQL high availability
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2022/addressing-the-last-mile-problem-with-mysql-high-availability
Anticipating others’ behavior on the road
https://news.mit.edu/2022/machine-learning-anticipating-behavior-cars-0421
Here’s How The U.S. May Regulate Artificial Intelligence
https://screenrant.com/us-regulate-artificial-intelligence-how-advisory-committee/
South Africa’s private surveillance machine is fueling a digital apartheid
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/1049996/south-africa-ai-surveillance-digital-apartheid/

Videos

Java Language Futures: Spring 2022 Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7Ypbw-xVRo
Parsing JSON in Rust using serde and reqwest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogpE4hviXyA
CI for Rust projects with GitHub Actions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw_kseQYxto
API Showdown: REST vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC – Which Should You Use?
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/rest-graphql-grpc/
Automatic Summaries of your Documents in Google Docs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ_QXjtxgD8

Newsletter – Week 15, 2022

April 17, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Virtual Threads, JReleaser 1.0, Project Loom, Vendor Statements on Spring4Shell
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/04/java-news-roundup-apr04-2022/
JReleaser 1.0 Releases Itself
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/04/jreleaser-v1/
Spring Framework Data Binding Rules Vulnerability (CVE-2022-22968)
https://spring.io/blog/2022/04/13/spring-framework-data-binding-rules-vulnerability-cve-2022-22968
Git security vulnerability announced
https://github.blog/2022-04-12-git-security-vulnerability-announced/
Stanford University Publishes AI Index 2022 Annual Report
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/04/stanford-ai-index-2021/
27 Artificial Intelligence Experts First To Serve On Commerce Advisory Board
https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2022/04/27-artificial-intelligence-experts-first-serve-commerce-advisory-board/365679/

Articles

Does Java 18 finally have a better alternative to JNI?
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2022/04/08/state-of-ffi-java
Functional tests with Testcontainers
https://engineering.zalando.com/posts/2022/04/functional-tests-with-testcontainers.html
Kubernetes Native Java with Quarkus
https://www.infoq.com/articles/native-java-quarkus/
Rust in Action
https://blog.frankel.ch/rust-action/
Software Architecture: It Might Not Be What You Think It Is
https://www.infoq.com/articles/what-software-architecture/
The Top Three Priorities for Engineering Leaders in 2022 and Beyond
https://www.infoq.com/articles/top3-priorities-engineering-leaders/
Presto® on Apache Kafka® At Uber Scale
https://eng.uber.com/presto-on-apache-kafka-at-uber-scale/
How Netflix Content Engineering makes a federated graph searchable
https://netflixtechblog.com/how-netflix-content-engineering-makes-a-federated-graph-searchable-5c0c1c7d7eaf

Videos

Rust 1.60.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VJxqwW5Zpc
Systems Programmers Can Have Nice Things
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/rust-systems-programmer/
The Rust Borrow Checker – A Deep Dive
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/rust-borrow-checker/
Stanford Seminar – The What & Why of Continuous Discovery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E1fC9nECiQ
NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) and Compositional Pattern Producing Networks (CPPN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf18FLdKkY4

GitHub Trends – Mar 2022

April 16, 2022April 16, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

Welcome to read GitHub trending projects for Java and Rust programming languages report for March 2022. Lets’ get started.

Java

In March month in the Java category, there are mostly no clear leaders by rising stars, so we will review only the three most visible leaders.

xManager (Spotify)

Total stars: 1483

Last month stars: 378

Growth: 25%

https://github.com/xManager-v2/xManager-Spotify

About the project: An android application where you can manage and install all versions of the Spotify app.

Azure SDK for Java

Total stars: 1377

Last month stars: 159

Growth: 12%

https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-java

About the project: This repository is for the active development of the Azure SDK for Java. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs or our versioned developer docs.

CDC Connectors for Apache Flink^®

Total stars: 2211

Last month stars: 239

Growth: 11%

https://github.com/ververica/flink-cdc-connectors

About the project: CDC Connectors for Apache Flink^® is a set of source connectors for Apache Flink^®, ingesting changes from different databases using change data capture (CDC). CDC Connectors for Apache Flink^® integrates Debezium as the engine to capture data changes. So it can fully leverage the ability of Debezium. See more about what is Debezium.

Rust

Lapce

Total stars: 9515

Last month stars: 4675

Growth: 49%

https://github.com/lapce/lapce

About the project: Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.

Foundry

Total stars: 2127

Last month stars: 457

Growth: 21%

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

About the project: Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust.

Helix

Total stars: 6826

Last month stars: 973

Growth: 14%

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix

About the project: A post-modern modal text editor.

Meilisearch

Total stars: 25530

Last month stars: 3130

Growth: 12%

https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch

About the project: Meilisearch is a powerful, fast, open-source, easy to use and deploy search engine. Both searching and indexing are highly customizable. Features such as typo-tolerance, filters, and synonyms are provided out-of-the-box.

The Algorithms – Rust

Total stars: 6631

Last month stars: 806

Growth: 12%

https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Rust

About the project: all Algorithms are implemented in Rust.

Observations

Java still keeping positions in Android development.
Lapce project looks pretty interesting, you can build your own code editor based on it or help this project. And, what is most awesome, all of this you can do using Rust.
If we speak about Rust projects one way or another we will definitely mention some projects related to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. I think this is pretty good for the Rust popularity and further development.
Based on the total stars amount and monthly growth the Meilisearch search engine is definitely worth a close look.
Interested in learning Rust the “The Algorithms – Rust” project is what you need to keep in your bookmarks.

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