Newsletter – Week 50, 2018

December 18, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

JDK 12 is in Rampdown Phase One
https://jaxenter.com/jdk-12-is-in-rampdown-phase-one-153269.html

Articles:

Student developers know more Java than what employers require, report shows
https://jaxenter.com/student-developers-know-java-153235.html
JVM Calendar: JDPR or Java Data Protection Recommendations
https://dzone.com/articles/jdpr-java-data-protection-recommendations
JVM Advent Calendar: Docker and the JVM
https://dzone.com/articles/jvm-advent-calendar-docker-and-the-jvm
JNoSQL and Jakarta EE
https://jaxenter.com/jnosql-jakarta-ee-152815.html
Java EE 8: A bird’s eye view
https://jaxenter.com/java-ee-8-birds-eye-view-152599.html
Lessons From the Birth of Microservices at Google
https://dzone.com/articles/lessons-from-the-birth-of-microservices-at-google
8 ways the tech world will change in 2019: DevOps, Kubernetes, open source fragmentation, and more
https://jaxenter.com/8-tech-predictions-devops-152993.html
8 reasons why DevOps gets more exciting in 2019
https://jaxenter.com/top-8-devops-predictions-2019-152914.html
Open Source at Uber: Meet Alex Sergeev, Horovod Project Lead
https://eng.uber.com/alex-sergeev-horovod/
These incredibly realistic fake faces show how algorithms can now mess with us
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612612/these-incredibly-real-fake-faces-show-how-algorithms-can-now-mess-with-us/

Videos:

Netflix Play API – An Evolutionary Architecture
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/netflix-play-api
MIT AI: Deep Reinforcement Learning (Pieter Abbeel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-mYLq6eZPY

Newsletter – Week 49, 2018

December 10, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Azure Machine Learning Services Now Generally Available
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/12/Azure-Machine-Learning-Available

Articles:

JDK 12 patrol: Shenandoah gets targeted to JDK 12, makes its big debut
https://jaxenter.com/jdk-12-patrol-jeps-149057.html
The JDKs: Which One to Use?
https://dzone.com/articles/java-and-the-jdks-which-one-to-use
Jenkins community survey: Kubernetes usage rises 235% & Java crowned most used language
https://jaxenter.com/jenkins-survey-kubernets-growth-java-no1-152752.html
DevOps Trends 2019 — What You Need to Know
https://dzone.com/articles/devops-trends-2019-what-you-need-to-know
An Engineer’s Guide To SLA, SLO, and SLI.
https://plumbr.io/blog/monitoring/an-engineers-guide-to-sla-slo-and-sli
What Is Data Sprawl?
https://dzone.com/articles/what-is-data-sprawl
Our learnings from adopting GraphQL
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/our-learnings-from-adopting-graphql-f099de39ae5f
Cache warming: Agility for a stateful service
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/cache-warming-agility-for-a-stateful-service-2d3b1da82642
Sessionizing Uber Trips in Real Time
https://eng.uber.com/sessionizing-data/

Videos:

Bootiful Testing
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/test-spring-apps-services
The Great Migration: from Monolith to Service-Oriented
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/airbnb-soa-migration
What We Got Wrong: Lessons from the Birth of Microservices
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/google-microservices
Chick-Fil-A: Milking the Most out of 1000’s of K8s Clusters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8edDcy3oeUo
GOTO 2018 – On the Road to Artificial General Intelligence by Danny Lange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRyZ-XwmgnE

Newsletter – Week 48, 2018

December 3, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Gradle 5.0 is here: Now with Java 11 support, production ready Kotlin DSL, and more!
https://jaxenter.com/gradle-5-152369.html

Articles:

JDK 12 patrol: 4 JEPs proposed to target JDK 12
https://jaxenter.com/jdk-12-patrol-jeps-149057.html
26 Reasons Why Using Optional Correctly Is Not Optional
https://dzone.com/articles/using-optional-correctly-is-not-optional
The Future of OpenJDK at Red Hat
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/11/red-hat-openjdk-gc-Nov18
Guide to Scripting With the Spring Framework
https://dzone.com/articles/in-any-incomprehensible-situation-go-scripting
How to bring performance management closer to the (development) team
https://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/how-to-bring-performance-management-closer-to-the-development-team/
Open Source 2018 Surprises and 2019 Predictions
https://dzone.com/articles/open-source-2018-surprises-and-2019-predictions
Developers must consider privacy for the entire product lifecycle
https://jaxenter.com/developers-must-consider-privacy-152492.html
Recap of AWS re:Invent 2018 Announcements
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/11/aws-reinvent-recap
Twitter’s Kafka adoption story
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2018/twitters-kafka-adoption-story.html
An update on Pixie, Pinterest’s recommendation system
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/an-update-on-pixie-pinterests-recommendation-system-6f273f737e1b
AI software can dream up an entire digital world from a simple sketch
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612503/ai-software-can-dream-up-an-entire-digital-world-from-a-simple-sketch/

Videos:

If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, It Doesn’t Matter How Fast You Get There
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/outcome-project-management
Building the Enchanted Land
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-best-practices
We’re drifting towards a cloud native era
https://jaxenter.com/cloud-native-deen-interview-jax-london-152481.html
The State of AI Marketing
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/state-ai-marketing

Newsletter – Week 46, 2018

November 20, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Amazon announces Corretto, a *free*, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK with LTS
https://jaxenter.com/amazon-corretto-free-openjdk-lts-151872.html
Elasticsearch 6.5.0 brings support for JDK 11 and several new features
https://jaxenter.com/elasticsearch-6-5-jdk11-support-151932.html

Articles:

Java Magazine: Nov / Dec 2018
http://www.javamagazine.mozaicreader.com/NovemberDecember2018
JDK 12 Javadoc Tag for System Properties
https://dzone.com/articles/jdk-12-javadoc-tag-for-system-properties
StackOverFlowError: Causes & solutions
https://jaxenter.com/stackoverflowerror-causes-152027.html
“Java risks setbacks if it becomes controlled by one or two mega vendors”
https://jaxenter.com/red-hat-ibm-interview-tibco-152164.html
Amazon Corretto: Another No-Cost JDK
https://dzone.com/articles/amazon-corretto-another-no-cost-jdk
The Keys to Making Important Technical Decisions.
https://dzone.com/articles/10-years-of-important-technical-decisions-itds
Design Patterns for Microservice Architecture
https://dzone.com/articles/design-patterns-for-micro-service-architecture
Remodeling Cash App Payments
https://medium.com/square-corner-blog/remodeling-cash-app-payments-539e1f6c4276
23 Useful Elasticsearch Example Queries
https://dzone.com/articles/23-useful-elasticsearch-example-queries
How to deal with the seasonality of a market?
https://eng.lyft.com/how-to-deal-with-the-seasonality-of-a-market-584cc94d6b75
Experience in AI: Uber Hires Jan Pedersen
https://eng.uber.com/uber-hires-jan-pedersen/

Videos:

Spring Boot 2.0 Web Applications
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/webflux-boot-2
The New Kid on the Block: Spring Data JDBC
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/spring-data-jdbc
Big Data and Deep Learning: A Tale of Two Systems
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/uber-big-data-dl-ml

Newsletter – Week 45, 2018

November 13, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Making floating point math highly efficient for AI hardware
https://code.fb.com/ai-research/floating-point-math/

Articles:

Recent changes and what’s next for Java: “OpenJDK is the future of Java”
https://jaxenter.com/java-openjdk-interview-sharples-151700.html
JDK 12 patrol: Three new JEP candidates aiming to improve G1
https://jaxenter.com/jdk-12-patrol-jeps-149057.html
Microservices Logging Best Practices
https://dzone.com/articles/microservices-logging-best-practices
Top 10 Most Popular AI Models
https://dzone.com/articles/top-10-most-popular-ai-models
Empowering personalized marketing with machine learning
https://eng.lyft.com/empowering-personalized-marketing-with-machine-learning-fd36e6bdeca6

Videos:

JDK 9, 10, 11 and beyond: Delivering New Feature in the JDK
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/jdk-9-10-11-12-13-14
Reactive Spring Security 5.1 by Example
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/reactive-spring-security-5-1
Securing Spring Functions by Breaking In
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/spring-cloud-functions-security

Newsletter – Week 43, 2018

October 30, 2018October 30, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

IBM to Buy Red Hat for $34 Billion
https://dzone.com/articles/ibm-buying-red-hat
IntelliJ IDEA 2018 progress report: 2018.3 Beta now available for download
https://jaxenter.com/intellij-idea-2018-142832.html

Articles:

10 OOPS Concepts in Java
https://dzone.com/articles/10-oops-concepts-in-java
When (Not) to Use Java Abstract Classes
https://dzone.com/articles/when-to-use-java-abstract-classes
Web API Error Handling: How To Make Debugging Easier
https://dzone.com/articles/web-api-error-handling-how-to-make-debugging-easie
API Profiling at Pinterest
https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/api-profiling-at-pinterest-6fa9333b4961
Top 12 Things That Destroy Developer Productivity
https://dzone.com/articles/top-12-things-that-destroy-developer-productivity

Videos:

Upgrading to Spring Boot 2.0
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/upgrade-spring-boot-1-5-2
Guide to “Reactive” for Spring MVC Developers
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/spring-reactive-webflux
GOTO 2018 – Full-stack Reactive Java with Project Reactor & Spring Boot 2 by Mark Heckler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSCyTUkVdoA
Voxxed Days Ticino 2018
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRsbF2sD7JVq4IapQ-Fz6AuHMj2KITL6P
2018 AI Summit San Francisco Keynote: Microsoft AI CTO Joseph Sirosh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAQc1RhUgWQ
Amy Heineike (Primer) interviewed at the Artificial Intelligence Conference, London 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBzZ2n_dOnY

Newsletter – Week 42, 2018

October 23, 2018 / ilapitan / 1 Comment

News:

Eclipse MicroProfile 2.1 arrives with updated Open Tracing API in tow
https://jaxenter.com/eclipse-microprofile-2-1-released-150942.html
Google Releases New Capabilities for Its Apigee API Platform
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/10/apigee-gcp-monitoring-extensions

Articles:

JUnit 5 Annotations With Examples
https://dzone.com/articles/junit-5-annotations-with-examples-1
Sneak peek into the status of the JVM ecosystem
https://jaxenter.com/highlights-status-jvm-ecosystem-150868.html
The draft of Jakarta EE Specification Process is live!
https://jaxenter.com/draft-jakarta-ee-specification-process-live-150810.html
Design Patterns for Microservices
https://dzone.com/articles/design-patterns-for-microservices
Event Driven 2.0
https://dzone.com/articles/event-driven-20
Apache Kafka: Ten Best Practices to Optimize Your Deployment
https://www.infoq.com/articles/apache-kafka-best-practices-to-optimize-your-deployment
Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency
https://eng.uber.com/uber-big-data-platform/
Edge AI in a Smarter Chick-fil-A
https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/edge-ai-in-a-smarter-chick-fil-a-6e56fe026154
TensorFlow in a Nutshell
https://dzone.com/articles/tensorflow-in-a-nutshell
Recap: LinkedIn NYC Machine Learning and Data Science Meetup
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2018/10/recap–linkedin-nyc-machine-learning-and-data-science-meetup
Applying Customer Feedback: How NLP & Deep Learning Improve Uber’s Maps
https://eng.uber.com/nlp-deep-learning-uber-maps/

Videos:

GOTO 2018 Security & Trust in a Microservices World Aaron Bedra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1F4Jv8re60
Leadership Lessons with Jim Whitehurst
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbMP1JcGBmSEIv7Z0U1xFZoIhk5eL7CkT

Newsletter – Week 37, 2018

September 18, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Proposed schedule: JDK 12 to be released March 19, 2019
https://jaxenter.com/proposed-schedule-jdk-12-march-2019-149420.html
JUnit 5.3 arrives with lots of updates in tow
https://jaxenter.com/junit-5-3-is-here-149301.html
Open Sourcing TonY: Native Support of TensorFlow on Hadoop
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2018/09/open-sourcing-tony–native-support-of-tensorflow-on-hadoop

Articles:

Oracle JDK builds vs. OpenJDK builds: Understanding the differences
https://jaxenter.com/oracle-jdk-builds-openjdk-builds-difference-149318.html
Java Community Leaders Clarify Platform Support Options
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/09/java-support-options-sept18
Recap: Java influencers weigh in on Java 11 and the state of the JDK
https://jaxenter.com/java-influencers-recap-149401.html
JDK 12 patrol: Packaging Tool joins the party
https://jaxenter.com/jdk-12-patrol-jeps-149057.html
Understanding Jakarta EE: “User feedback is of central importance so that Jakarta EE can go in the right direction”
https://jaxenter.com/understanding-jakarta-ee-christian-kaltepoth-149486.html
How to Achieve a Resilient Architecture
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/09/resilient-architectures-patterns
Challenges in Implementing Microservices
https://dzone.com/articles/challenges-in-implementing-microservices
Data Consistency in Microservices Architecture
https://dzone.com/articles/data-consistency-in-microservices-architecture
4 Practical Microservices Testing Strategies for Enterprises
https://dzone.com/articles/4-practical-microservices-testing-strategies-for-e
Serverless and the OWASP Top 10
https://dzone.com/articles/serverless-and-the-owasp-top-10
My Trip to JavaZone 2018
https://dzone.com/articles/my-trip-to-javazone-2018
A Pinterest Engineering guide to technical interviews
https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/a-pinterest-engineering-guide-to-technical-interviews-1c2471c2d139
Automated Fake Account Detection at LinkedIn
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2018/09/automated-fake-account-detection-at-linkedin
Artificial intelligence is often overhyped—and here’s why that’s dangerous
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612072/artificial-intelligence-is-often-overhypedand-heres-why-thats-dangerous/

Videos:

Unlearning: The Challenge of Change
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/change-unlearning
Your Project Behaves Like a Hurricane. Forecast It Like One
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/predictable-projects-continuous-forecasting
No Microservice Is an Island
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-infrastructure
Designing Events-First Microservices
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-events-first-design
2018 @Scale Conference Recap
https://code.fb.com/android/2018-scale-conference-recap/

Newsletter – Week 36, 2018

September 11, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Git 2.19 is here!
https://jaxenter.com/git-2-19-149228.html
California Creates Consumer Privacy Act
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/08/California-Consumer-Privacy-Act

Articles:

What does it take for Java to compete in the serverless space?
https://jaxenter.com/java-influencers-series-final-part-149208.html
JDK 12 patrol: One new JEP candidate makes it to the list
https://jaxenter.com/jdk-12-patrol-jeps-149057.html
5 reasons to use RxJava in your projects
https://jaxenter.com/5-reasons-use-rxjava-148982.html
What Is Serverless Architecture?
https://dzone.com/articles/what-is-serverless-architecture
How the TOGAF Standard Serves Enterprise Architecture
https://www.infoq.com/articles/TOGAF-enterprise-architecture
7 Tips to Get the Most Out Of Online Courses
https://dzone.com/articles/7-tips-to-get-the-most-out-of-online-courses
Managing Software Dependency at Scale
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2018/09/managing-software-dependency-at-scale
Keystone Real-time Stream Processing Platform
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/keystone-real-time-stream-processing-platform-a3ee651812a
Forecasting at Uber: An Introduction
https://eng.uber.com/forecasting-introduction/
Scaling Knowledge Access and Retrieval at Airbnb
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/scaling-knowledge-access-and-retrieval-at-airbnb-665b6ba21e95
Scaling neural machine translation to bigger data sets with faster training and inference
https://code.fb.com/ai-research/scaling-neural-machine-translation-to-bigger-data-sets-with-faster-training-and-inference/
Overview of the Packt AI Now survey: The present and future of AI
https://jaxenter.com/present-future-ai-packt-survey-149270.html

Videos:

Design Microservice Architectures the Right Way
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-arch-infrastructure-cd
Serverless Architectural Patterns and Best Practices
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/serverless-architecture-patterns
Building Better Blockchain Use Cases
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/blockchain-projects-success

Newsletter – Week 33, 2018

August 20, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

JDK 11 has entered the Release Candidate phase
https://jaxenter.com/jdk-11-release-process-147346.html
Serverless or containers? Vote now for your favorite!
https://jaxenter.com/serverless-containers-poll-148236.html

Articles:

Java Attacks! [Comic]
https://dzone.com/articles/java-attacks-comic
JDK 11 – End of road for Java EE & CORBA modules and Nashorn JavaScript Engine. What’s left to axe?
https://jaxenter.com/java-influencers-series-part-2-148371.html
18 Points Every Java Developer Should Know About Enums In Java
https://dzone.com/articles/18-points-every-java-developer-should-know-about-e
Understanding Jakarta EE: “Jakarta EE 9 will begin the transition to a simpler, lighter, and more flexible platform”
https://jaxenter.com/understanding-jakarta-ee-series-haefel-148038.html
Understanding Jakarta EE: “Jakarta EE tools should support Kubernetes”
https://jaxenter.com/understanding-jakarta-ee-series-santana-148161.html
Understanding Jakarta EE: “MicroProfile saved Java EE & will have a key role in its cloud-native transformation”
https://jaxenter.com/understanding-jakarta-ee-series-aguero-148324.html
Understanding Jakarta EE: “Combining Jakarta EE with MicroProfile could slow down the progress of MicroProfile”
https://jaxenter.com/understanding-jakarta-ee-series-hofmann-148353.html
Functional Programming: A Paradigm
https://dzone.com/articles/functional-programming-a-paradigm
Microservices From a Startup Perspective
https://www.infoq.com/articles/microservices-startup
Capturing Data Evolution in a Service-Oriented Architecture
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/capturing-data-evolution-in-a-service-oriented-architecture-72f7c643ee6f
Beyond Interactive: Notebook Innovation at Netflix
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/notebook-innovation-591ee3221233
The World Economic Forum warns that AI may destabilize the financial system
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611890/the-world-economic-forum-warns-that-ai-may-destabilize-the-financial-system/

Videos:

The 7 Steps to Enterprise Business Agility
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/enterprise-business-agility-model

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