Newsletter – Week 16, 2020

April 21, 2020 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Results from the InfoQ Reader Survey 2019
https://www.infoq.com/articles/infoq-reader-survey-2019-results/
Java 15: First five features confirmed to target JDK 15
https://jaxenter.com/java-15-news-170322.html

Articles:

Q&A with Amazon’s Deepak Singh Regarding Bottlerocket, Containers and EC2
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/04/bottlerocket-singh/
When should I write an Architecture Decision Record?
https://labs.spotify.com/2020/04/14/when-should-i-write-an-architecture-decision-record/
What is Deep Reinforcement Learning?
https://www.unite.ai/what-is-deep-reinforcement-learning/
Landing AI Creates an AI Tool to Help Customers Monitor Social Distancing in the Workplace
https://landing.ai/landing-ai-creates-an-ai-tool-to-help-customers-monitor-social-distancing-in-the-workplace/
Rapid experimentation through standardization: Typed AI features for LinkedIn’s feed
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2020/feed-typed-ai-features
Tom Ryden, Executive Director of MassRobotics – Interview Series
https://www.unite.ai/tom-ryden-executive-director-of-mass-robotics-interview-series/
Richard Boyd, Co-Founder & CEO of Tanjo Inc – Interview Series
https://www.unite.ai/richard-boyd-the-co-founder-ceo-of-tanjo-inc-interview-series/

Videos:

Life After Java 8
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/life-after-java-8/
Technical Leadership Through the Underground Railroad
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/leadership-conductors-underground-railroad/
Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders & Institutions | AI Podcast #88
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAZJNe7YtE
Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics | AI Podcast #89 with Lex Fridman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez773teNFYA

Newsletter – Week 14, 2020

April 6, 2020 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Java 15: Release date, hidden classes and first JEP confirmed to target JDK 15
https://jaxenter.com/java-15-news-170322.html
What’s New in MicroProfile 3.3
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/03/whats-new-in-microprofile-3-3/

Articles:

JEP 377: Promote ZGC from experimental garbage collector to production feature
https://jaxenter.com/java-jep-377-zgc-production-170389.html
Java’s Missing Features: 5 Years Later
https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-missing-features-5years/
Log4j Bug – Slows down your app
https://jaxenter.com/log4j-bug-169372.html
Containerization in 2020
https://dzone.com/articles/containerization-in-2020
Building Secure Docker Images – 101
https://medium.com/walmartlabs/building-secure-docker-images-101-3769b760ebfa
Comparing Container Pipelines
https://dzone.com/articles/comparing-container-pipelines
Shifting Left in Software Engineering
https://dzone.com/articles/shifting-left-in-software-engineering
Clean Unit Testing
https://dzone.com/articles/clean-unit-testing
Scrum Development Team Anti-Patterns
https://dzone.com/articles/scrum-development-team-anti-patterns
Journey of An Engineer From X To 3X — What, Why And When
https://medium.com/walmartlabs/journey-of-an-engineer-from-x-to-3x-what-why-and-when-1e18c86c8ea0
Deploys at Slack
https://slack.engineering/deploys-at-slack-cd0d28c61701
Exploring Nature-Inspired Robot Agility
https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/04/exploring-nature-inspired-robot-agility.html
A conversation with Kevin Scott, author of “Reprogramming the American Dream”
https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/kevin-scott-reprogramming-the-american-dream
Marc Sloan, Co-Founder & CEO of Scout – Interview Series
https://www.unite.ai/marc-sloan-co-founder-ceo-of-scout-interview-series/
Anthony Macciola, Chief Innovation Officer at ABBYY – Interview Series
https://www.unite.ai/anthony-macciola-chief-innovation-officer-at-abbyy-interview-series/

Videos:

Records and Sealed Types – Coming Soon to a JVM Near You!
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/java-language-records-sealed-types/
Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe | AI Podcast #85 with Lex Fridman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orMtwOz6Db0
David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning | AI Podcast #86 with Lex Fridman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPUEq8d73JI

Newsletter – Week 43, 2019

October 28, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Jakarta EE 9 – signs point to a big bang
https://jaxenter.com/jakarta-ee-9-big-bang-163143.html
Amazon joins the Java Community Process (JCP)
https://jaxenter.com/amazon-java-community-process-jcp-163161.html

Articles:

Introducing JDK 12 Teeing
https://dzone.com/articles/introducing-jdk-12-teeing
Containers in 2019: They’re Calling it a [Hypervisor] Comeback
https://www.infoq.com/articles/containers-hypervisors-2019/
5 Billion-dollar Industries That Will Be Changed By Artificial Intelligence
https://www.inc.com/andrew-thomas/5-billion-dollar-industries-that-will-be-changed-by-artificial-intelligence-ai.html

Videos:

Security for Managers
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/security-agile/
Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RVa0THWUWw

Newsletter – Week 21, 2019

May 28, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Fund open source developers with GitHub Sponsors
https://jaxenter.com/github-sponsors-158897.html

Articles:

Pitfalls in JVM and Docker Defaults
https://dzone.com/articles/pitfalls-in-jvm-and-docker-defaults
Spring Boot Security + JSON Web Token (JWT) ”Hello World” Example
https://dzone.com/articles/spring-boot-security-json-web-tokenjwt-hello-world
How big companies are using Kubernetes
https://jaxenter.com/big-companies-using-kubernetes-159007.html
Container ecosystem in 2019: Organizations challenged by container security
https://jaxenter.com/2019-container-security-survey-158958.html
Being an Ethical Software Engineer
https://www.infoq.com/articles/ethical-software-engineer/
GDPR One Year On: Increasing Demand for “Security By Design”
https://dzone.com/articles/gdpr-one-year-on-increasing-demand-for-quotsecurit
DevOps Postmortems: Why and how to use them?
https://plumbr.io/blog/devops-postmortems-why-and-how-to-use-them
Uber Open Source: Catching Up with Felix Cheung, Data Platform Engineering Manager
https://eng.uber.com/uber-open-source-felix-cheung-inteview/
Five things to look for in machine learning
https://jaxenter.com/five-things-machine-learning-158940.html
Four ways AI has transformed patient care
https://www.raconteur.net/healthcare/artificial-intelligence-medicine

Videos:

Architect an Airline Booking Application, End-to-End
https://pages.awscloud.com/GLOBAL-devstrategy-OE-BuildOnServerless-2019-reg-event.html
The Future of Transportation
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/future-transportation/
Massive Scale Anomaly Detection Framework
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/scale-anomaly-detection-framework/

Newsletter – Week 16, 2019

April 23, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

A new era for OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 begins with the transition over to Red Hat
https://jaxenter.com/openjdk-8-openjdk-11-transition-to-red-hat-158009.html
Scala 2.13 release candidate offers up new language refinements
https://jaxenter.com/scala-2-13-0-rc1-157909.htm

Articles:

JEP 230: A New Microbenchmark Suite for JDK 12
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/04/jep-230-microbenchmark-suite
Variance in Java
https://dzone.com/articles/variance-in-java
Creating Annotations in Java
https://dzone.com/articles/creating-custom-annotations-in-java
What Are the Major Advantages of Using a Graph Database?
https://dzone.com/articles/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-using-a-graph-databa
Do You Have These Four Power Skills?
https://dzone.com/articles/do-you-have-these-four-power-skills
The AI Behind LinkedIn Recruiter Search and Recommendation Systems
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/04/ai-behind-linkedin-recruiter-search-and-recommendation-systems

Videos:

Seven Security Sins: The 7 biggest security problems of agile projects
https://jaxenter.com/seven-security-sins-agile-157966.html
Containers Were Never Your End State
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/kubernetes-production-spring-platform-2018
Reducing Risk of Credential Compromise @Netflix
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/netflix-infrastructure-security
Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Research: advancing cloud computing together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f42FiRhG7_w
Data Science for Lazy People, Automated Machine Learning
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/automated-ml-assistant-ds
Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) | MIT Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6rxFNMGdn0

Newsletter – Week 12, 2019

March 25, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Java 12 Released with Experimental Switch Expressions and Shenandoah GC
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/03/java12-released
Istio 1.1 is enterprise-ready
https://jaxenter.com/istio-1-1-enterprise-ready-157089.html
Udacity and Google Introduce New (and Free) TensorFlow Course for Deep Learning
https://dzone.com/articles/new-free-tensorflow-course-for-deep-learning
Google’s New Cloud Security Services for Better Threat Detection and Protection in Enterprises
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/03/gcp-new-security-services

Articles:

Updating to Java 12? Or waiting for the next LTS version?
https://jaxenter.com/java-12-adoption-poll-157164.html
Shenandoah: Ultra low-pause garbage collector in Java 12
https://jaxenter.com/java-garbage-collection-157057.html
Java 12: “Switch Expressions gives developers a chance to clean up some of the massive switch statements & convoluted if-then-else blocks”
https://jaxenter.com/java-12-interview-donald-smith-157013.html
Quarkus, a Kubernetes Native Java Framework
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/03/redhat-release-quarkus
Mythbusters: 5 Myths About How Java Is Getting Better
https://dzone.com/articles/5-myths-about-how-java-is-upgrading-to-become-bett
Spring Initializr updates include UI changes on top of developers’ wishlists
https://jaxenter.com/spring-initializr-updates-157152.html
Seven Steps for Improving Cloud Security with Business Integration
https://www.infoq.com/articles/improving-cloud-security
Microservices Anti-Patterns
https://dzone.com/articles/microservices-anti-patterns
10 Tips for Building and Managing Containers
https://dzone.com/articles/10-tips-for-building-and-managing-containers
Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and Efficiency
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/building-and-scaling-data-lineage-at-netflix-to-improve-data-infrastructure-reliability-and-1a52526a7977

Videos:

Event-Driven Architectures with Apache Geode and Spring Integration
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/apache-geode-spring-integration-pipelines
Six Simple Steps to Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/slo-pitfalls
MIT AI: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society (Eric Weinstein)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wq9x2QcZN0
Michelangelo – Machine Learning @Uber
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/uber-ml-michelangelo

Newsletter – Week 06, 2019

February 12, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

JUnit 5.4.0 release enhances the next generation Java testing framework
https://jaxenter.com/junit-5-4-release-155348.html

Articles:

Threads Stuck in java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0 API
https://dzone.com/articles/threads-stuck-in-javanetsocketinputstreamsocketrea
JDK 9/JEP 280: String Concatenations Will Never Be the Same
https://dzone.com/articles/jdk-9jep-280-string-concatenations-will-never-be-t
Moving to Java 11: Rediscover Some Gems You Might Have Missed
https://dzone.com/articles/moving-to-java-11-rediscover-some-quotcode-gemsquo
No Framework for Your Microservices?
https://dzone.com/articles/no-framework
Google takes its first steps toward killing the URL
https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-kill-url-first-steps/
Introducing Kafka Cruise Control Frontend
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/02/introducing-kafka-cruise-control-frontend
Building a Cross-platform In-app Messaging Orchestration Service
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/building-a-cross-platform-in-app-messaging-orchestration-service-86ba614f92d8
Q&A With Facebook Engineer Mark Harman
https://www.forbes.com/sites/samshead/2019/02/10/qa-with-facebook-engineer-mark-harman/

Videos:

What’s New in Spring Data
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/spring-data-kotlin
GOTO 2018 Talking with Tech Leads by Patrick Kua
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLS6NXMXtLI
Disenchantment: Netflix Titus, Its Feisty Team, and Daemons
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/netflix-titus-2018
MIT AI: Cruise Automation (Kyle Vogt)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUYagvESisE
Migrating ML from Research to Production
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ml-research-production

Newsletter – Week 38, 2018

September 24, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

GitLab 11.3 arrived: Built-in Maven repositories & many more improvements for Java developers
https://jaxenter.com/gitlab-11-3-java-improvements-149945.html

Articles:

Java Magazine – September/October 2018
http://www.javamagazine.mozaicreader.com/SeptemberOctober2018
JShell: A Comprehensive Guide to the Java REPL
https://www.infoq.com/articles/jshell-java-repl
Java 11 String API Updates
https://dzone.com/articles/java-11-string-api-updates
Java 11: A new way to handle HTTP & WebSocket in Java!
https://jaxenter.com/java-11-http-websocket-149538.html
The Ultimate Guide to the Java Stream API groupingBy() Collector
https://dzone.com/articles/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-java-stream-api-grouping
Setting Up Static Code Analysis for Java
https://dzone.com/articles/setting-up-static-code-analysis-for-java
“If you’re a Java developer and you’re writing microservices, Helidon is a great choice”
https://jaxenter.com/helidon-microservices-interview-kornilov-149734.html
A tour of cloud computing: “The cloud gives us a lot of tools for producing better security”
https://jaxenter.com/tour-cloud-computing-series-mathon-149803.html
How to overcome 5 common database challenges
https://jaxenter.com/overcome-5-common-database-challenges-149559.html
Scalable User Privacy
https://labs.spotify.com/2018/09/18/scalable-user-privacy/
Building a dynamic and responsive Pinterest
https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/building-a-dynamic-and-responsive-pinterest-7d410e99f0a9
Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search
https://githubengineering.com/towards-natural-language-semantic-code-search/
Introducing Petastorm: Uber ATG’s Data Access Library for Deep Learning
https://eng.uber.com/petastorm/

Videos:

Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/lean-agile-design-thinking
It’s 2018; Are My Containers Secure Yet?
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/container-security-2018
How Blockchains Work and How to Scale Them
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/blockchain-bioxroute

Newsletter – Week 34, 2018

August 28, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

JDK 11: First and last Release Candidate?
https://jaxenter.com/jdk-11-release-process-147346.html
Jib, a Java Container Image Builder from Google
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/08/jib

Articles:

Is JDK 11 migration a given, due to planned long-term support?
https://jaxenter.com/java-influencers-series-part-3-148682.html
Java 11: Standardized HTTP Client API
https://dzone.com/articles/java-11-standardized-http-client-api
Understanding Jakarta EE: MicroProfile’s purpose will still be useful even after Jakarta EE is fully functional
https://jaxenter.com/understanding-jakarta-ee-series-stark-148538.html
Understanding Jakarta EE: “While Jakarta EE 8 does not add much functionality on top of Java EE 8, people should adopt it ASAP to provide feedback”
https://jaxenter.com/understanding-jakarta-ee-series-karg-148661.html
Serverless vs. Containers
https://dzone.com/articles/serverless-vs-containers
Why Even Bother with Serverless?
https://dzone.com/articles/why-even-bother-with-serverless
Focus: The Leadership Superpower
https://dzone.com/articles/focus-a-leadership-superpower
Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A
https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/edge-computing-at-chick-fil-a-7d67242675e2
Part 2: Scheduling Notebooks at Netflix
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/scheduling-notebooks-348e6c14cfd6
Scaling Uber’s Customer Support Ticket Assistant (COTA) System with Deep Learning
https://eng.uber.com/cota-v2/
Fingerprinting fraudulent behavior
https://eng.lyft.com/fingerprinting-fraudulent-behavior-6663d0264fad

Videos:

ML Data Pipelines for Real-Time Fraud Prevention @PayPal
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/paypal-ml-fraud-prevention-2018
Engineering Systems for Real-Time Predictions @DoorDash
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/doordash-real-time-predictions
How to Use Data Responsibly
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ethics-data-science

Newsletter – Week 31, 2018

August 6, 2018 / ilapitan / 1 Comment

News:

GraalVM 1.0-RC5 provides pre-built binaries for GraalVM CE on macOS
https://jaxenter.com/graalvm-1-0-changes-thread-145329.html

Articles:

What’s New in Java 10?
https://dzone.com/articles/whats-new-in-java-10
Java Heap Dump Analyzer
https://dzone.com/articles/java-heap-dump-analyzer-1
Understanding Jakarta EE: “Modularity is key to faster release cycles”
https://jaxenter.com/understanding-jakarta-ee-series-rahman-147683.html
Spring Boot – Best Practices
https://www.e4developer.com/2018/08/06/spring-boot-best-practices/
The Magic of Spring Data
https://dzone.com/articles/magic-of-spring-data
Top Docker Commands Any Expert Should Know
https://dzone.com/articles/top-docker-commands-itsyndicate
The top data structures you should know for your next coding interview
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-top-data-structures-you-should-know-for-your-next-coding-interview-36af0831f5e3
Q&A on the Book “Microservices, a Practical Guide, Principles, Concepts, and Recipes”
https://www.infoq.com/articles/book-review-microservices-practical-guide
Databook: Turning Big Data into Knowledge with Metadata at Uber
https://eng.uber.com/databook/

Videos:

Serving Millions of Customers Serverless at CapitalOne
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/serverless-capitalone
Serverless + Containers = Modern Cloud Applications
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/serverless-containers-cloud-apps
Serverless Patterns and Anti-patterns
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/serverless-patterns-antipatterns

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