Newsletter – Week 19, 2021

May 16, 2021 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup – Week of May 3rd, 2021
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/05/java-news-roundup-may03-2021/
The Plan for the Rust 2021 Edition
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/05/11/edition-2021.html

Articles

Networking I/O with Virtual Threads – Under the hood
https://inside.java/2021/05/10/networking-io-with-virtual-threads/
HTTP PUT vs. POST in REST API
https://www.baeldung.com/rest-http-put-vs-post
Implementing Microservicilities with Quarkus and MicroProfile
https://www.infoq.com/articles/microservicilities-quarkus/
RESTful API in Sync & Async Rust
https://github.com/pretzelhammer/rust-blog/blob/master/posts/restful-api-in-sync-and-async-rust.md
Optimizing 700 CPUs Away With Rust
https://medium.com/tenable-techblog/optimizing-700-cpus-away-with-rust-dc7a000dbdb2
Securing Data in AWS
https://reflectoring.io/securing-data-on-aws/
AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Comparing Cloud Platforms
https://securityboulevard.com/2021/05/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-cloud-comparing-cloud-platforms/
What Is Chaos Engineering?
https://dzone.com/articles/what-is-chaos-engineering
Airbnb’s Promotions and Communications Platform
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/airbnbs-promotions-and-communications-platform-6266f1ffe2bd

Videos

Build Reactive Java Microservices with Spring Boot and JHipster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clkEUHWT9-M
High Availability Architecture and new AWS regions!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9cgjeYJhJQ
LASR: Articulated Shape Reconstruction from Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lac7wqjS-8E
Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing | Lex Fridman Podcast #183
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z1JwZbX4dQ
Webinar – Hacking AI: Security & Privacy of Machine Learning Models
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKikt2d9PE0

Newsletter – Week 45, 2020

November 9, 2020 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

The Road to MicroProfile 4.0
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/11/the-road-to-microprofile-4/
Intel has acquired Cnvrg.io, a platform to manage, build and automate machine learning
https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/03/intel-has-acquired-cnvrg-io-a-platform-to-manage-build-and-automate-machine-learning/
New Cloud Shell Editor: Get your first cloud-native app running in minutes
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/introducing-cloud-shell-editor

Articles:

Top 10 Java Testing Frameworks For 2020
https://dzone.com/articles/top-10-java-testing-frameworks-for-2020
The Engineer’s Complete Guide to Technical Debt
https://dzone.com/articles/the-engineers-complete-guide-to-technical-debt-1
Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset
https://dzone.com/articles/fixed-mindset-vs-growth-mindset
How to Make Better Decisions With Second-Order Thinking
https://dzone.com/articles/second-order-thinking
How we fortified Twitter’s real time ad spend architecture
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2020/how_we_fortified_twitters_real_time_ad_spend_architecture.html
Data Quality at Airbnb
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/data-quality-at-airbnb-e582465f3ef7
How TinyML Makes Artificial Intelligence Ubiquitous
https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2020/11/03/how-tinyml-makes-artificial-intelligence-ubiquitous/
This could lead to the next big breakthrough in common sense AI
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/06/1011726/ai-natural-language-processing-computer-vision/
6 Best Use Cases To Save Customers’ Hours Of Time Using NLP
https://www.unite.ai/6-best-use-cases-to-save-customers-hours-of-time-using-nlp/

Videos:

OAuth Sketch Notes Q&A – PKCE, Scopes, Security, Passwordless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td00HpMI3Q8

Newsletter – Week 38, 2020

September 20, 2020October 11, 2020 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Java 15 is here! Text Blocks & Shenandoah GC drop test status
https://jaxenter.com/java-15-news-170322.html
Announcing the Inside Java Podcast
https://inside.java/2020/09/15/announcing-inside-java-podcast/
Public Beta of Google Cloud API Gateway Now Available
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/09/google-api-gateway/

Articles:

DAO vs Repository Patterns
https://www.baeldung.com/java-dao-vs-repository
Rust for Java developers
https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2020/09/rust-for-java-developers/
Logging As a Last Resort
https://dzone.com/articles/logging-as-a-last-resort
Single-Tenant vs Multi-Tenant: SaaS Architecture
https://dzone.com/articles/single-tenant-vs-multi-tenant-saas-architecture
Throughput autoscaling: Dynamic sizing for Facebook.com
https://engineering.fb.com/networking-traffic/throughput-autoscaling/
Migrating App Permissions and Access Tokens
https://dropbox.tech/developers/migrating-app-permissions-and-access-tokens
The Case for Explainable AI (XAI)
https://www.infoq.com/articles/explainable-ai-xai/
Why kids need special protection from AI’s influence
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/17/1008549/kids-need-protection-from-ai/
What Is Synthetic Data?
https://www.unite.ai/what-is-synthetic-data/

Videos:

Modern Banking in 1500 Microservices
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/monzo-microservices/
Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #124
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t1_ffaFXao

Newsletter – Week 04, 2020

January 27, 2020 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Sonatype Disables Unencrypted Access to Maven
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/01/no-more-unencrypted-maven/
Keeping Credentials Safe, Google Introduces Cloud Secret Manager
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/01/Google-Secret-Manager/
Gradle 6 Brings Significant Dependency Management Improvements
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/01/gradle-releases-version-6/
JUnit 5.6 release brings new features for Java unit testing
https://jaxenter.com/junit-5-6-java-unit-testing-167142.html
Google’s Dataset Search comes out of beta
https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/23/googles-dataset-search-comes-out-of-beta/

Articles:

Java Application Troubleshooting the Sherlock Holmes Way
https://dzone.com/articles/java-application-troubleshooting-in-sherlock-holme
Hero Without a Cape: Stream API
https://dzone.com/articles/hero-without-a-cape-java8-feature
Measuring Performance of Your Methods Using JMH in Java
https://dzone.com/articles/measuring-performance-of-your-methods-using-jmh-in
Who Are You, Agile Architect?
https://dzone.com/articles/who-are-you-agile-architect
Five things I learned about working on content quality at Instagram
https://instagram-engineering.com/five-things-i-learned-about-working-on-content-quality-at-instagram-5031b1342bea

Videos:

Enabling Secure Code at Scale with Spring and OAuth2
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/spring-security-oauth-2/
The Value of Reactive Systems
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/template-reactive-system/
GOTO 2019 – Breaking Language Barriers with AI by Boaz Ziniman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2XpFSzyBpA
MIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH6vE97qIP4&list=PLUl4u3cNGP63UUkfL0onkxF6MYgVa04Fn
Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & Universal Basic Income | AI Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJQepiqSWvg
Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkWmiNRPU-c

Newsletter – Week 37, 2019

September 16, 2019 / ilapitan / 1 Comment

News:

Jakarta EE 8 release – the future is now!
https://jaxenter.com/jakarta-ee-8-release-interview-eclipse-161955.html
JavaFX 13 released – the new frontier for OpenJFX
https://jaxenter.com/javafx-13-released-new-frontier-openjfx-162088.html
Amazon Releases Container Monitoring for Amazon ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes via CloudWatch
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/09/aws-container-insights-ga/
France and Germany have said they will oppose Facebook’s digital currency
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614321/facebook-libra-france-and-germany-say-they-will-oppose-facebooks-digital-currency/

Articles:

Java Concurrency: Synchronization
https://dzone.com/articles/java-concurrency-synchronization
Jakarta EE 8: Past, Present, and Future
https://jaxenter.com/jakarta-ee-8-past-present-future-161990.html
Improving Code Readability
https://dzone.com/articles/improving-code-readability-1
Q&A on the Book Continuous Delivery in Java
https://www.infoq.com/articles/qa-book-continuous-delivery-java/
Best Practices for Event-Driven Microservice Architecture
https://dzone.com/articles/best-practices-for-event-driven-microservice-archi
Column Level Encryption in GCP
https://dzone.com/articles/column-level-encryption-and-gcp
Kids are surrounded by AI. They should know how it works.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614306/kids-are-surrounded-by-ai-they-should-know-how-it-works/

Videos:

Quarkus and GraalVM: Booting Hibernate at Supersonic Speed, Subatomic Size
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/quarkus-graalvm-sao-paulo-2019/
Are We Really Cloud-native?
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/cloud-native-intro/
Building Resilient Serverless Systems
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/serverless-iascode-resilience/
Three Approaches to Scaling Machine Learning with Uber Seattle Engineering
https://eng.uber.com/three-approaches-to-scaling-machine-learning-with-uber-seattle-engineering/
François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI | Artificial Intelligence Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo8MY4JpiXE

Newsletter – Week 35, 2019

September 3, 2019September 3, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Google Releases a Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AD) in Beta
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/09/gcp-microsoft-ad-beta/

Articles:

JEP 359: Records
https://jaxenter.com/jep-359-records-161403.html
JEP 360: Sealed Types
https://jaxenter.com/jep-360-sealed-types-161424.html
JEP draft: Throughput post-write barrier for G1
https://jaxenter.com/java-jep-draft-throughput-post-write-barrier-g1-161449.html
GraphQL Java Example for Beginners [Spring Boot]
https://dzone.com/articles/a-beginners-guide-to-graphql-with-spring-boot
Autowiring in Spring
https://dzone.com/articles/autowiring-in-spring
Who? Why? What? Fix? – System.gc()
https://jaxenter.com/fix-system-gc-tutorial-160950.html
8 Benefits of Unit Testing
https://dzone.com/articles/top-8-benefits-of-unit-testing
Using GraphQL to Improve Data Hydration in our Customer Care Platform and Beyond
https://eng.uber.com/graphql-data-hydration-customer-care/
How to Use Chaos Engineering to Break Things Productively
https://www.infoq.com/articles/chaos-engineering-security-networking/
Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning
https://martinfowler.com/articles/cd4ml.html

Videos:

Reactive Spring
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/reactive-spring-sao-paulo-2019/
GOTO 2019 – Journeys To Cloud Native Architecture: Sun, Sea & Emergencies by Nicki Watt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GybLDN4Zofs
The ethics of AI – dealing with difficult choices in a non-binary world
https://jaxenter.com/ethics-ai-dealing-difficult-choices-non-binary-world-161355.html
Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Self-Supervised Learning | AI Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGSOCuByo24

Newsletter – Week 30, 2019

July 29, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Apache NetBeans 11.1 Released as Top Level Project
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/07/netbeans-11-apache/
IntelliJ IDEA 2019.2 brings Java 13 Preview features, services tool window & much more
https://jaxenter.com/intellij-idea-2019-2-brings-java-13-preview-features-160400.html
Docker Enterprise 3.0 Brings Docker Kubernetes Services, New Lifecycle Automation Tools, and More
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/07/docker-enterprise-3/
Google Acquires Elastifile to Expand Its Cloud File Storage Offering
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/07/google-elastifile-acquisition/

Articles:

OpenJDK Project Valhalla Releases LW2 Prototype
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/07/valhalla-openjdk-lw2-released/
Java Concurrency: AtomicInteger
https://dzone.com/articles/java-concurrency-atomicinteger
Running Single-file Programs without Compiling in Java 11
https://www.infoq.com/articles/single-file-execution-java11/
Jakarta EE & MicroProfile – two names, one family?
https://jaxenter.com/interview-jakarta-ee-microprofile-160454.html
Microservice Architecture and Design Patterns for Microservices
https://dzone.com/articles/microservice-architecture-and-design-patterns-for
Top 10 AWS Architect Interview Questions 2019
https://dzone.com/articles/top-10-aws-architect-interview-questions-2019
Fairness, Privacy, and Transparency by Design in AI/ML Systems
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/fairness-privacy-transparency-by-design
How AI and satellite data are helping farmers waste less water
https://news.microsoft.com/europe/features/how-ai-and-satellite-data-are-helping-farmers-waste-less-water/

Videos:

Driving Technology Transformation at @WeWork
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/wework-platform-technology/
Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-9Mpe7NhkM

Newsletter – Week 25, 2019

June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Eclipse IDE 2019-06 is now available: New features for Java developers
https://jaxenter.com/eclipse-ide-2019-6-159534.html
Google Cloud Scheduler is Now Generally Available
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/06/google-cloud-scheduler-ga/

Articles:

Reactive REST API Using Spring Boot and RxJava
https://dzone.com/articles/reactive-rest-api-using-spring-boot-and-rxjava-1
Azul Systems Discuss Java’s Present and Future
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/06/azul-java-june19/
Service Mesh Interface (SMI): Q&A with Microsoft’s Lachlan Evenson
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/06/smi-lachlan-evenson/
🏄‍♀️ Surf’s Up! Preparing for Huge Waves of Traffic via Load Testing
https://slack.engineering/%EF%B8%8F-surfs-up-preparing-for-huge-waves-of-traffic-via-load-testing-62b64da15ffc
Using OpenAPI to Build Smart APIs for Dumb Machines
https://www.infoq.com/articles/openapi/
7 Types Of Artificial Intelligence
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/06/19/7-types-of-artificial-intelligence
Here are 10 ways AI could help fight climate change
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613838/ai-climate-change-machine-learning/
Teaching artificial intelligence to connect senses like vision and touch
http://news.mit.edu/2019/teaching-ai-to-connect-senses-vision-touch-0617

Videos:

Why Continuations are Coming to Java
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/continuations-java/
Sala – Putting Non-Euclidean Geometry to Work in ML
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgJpyFaYG-M
The Evolution of Spotify Home Architecture
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/evolution-spotify-arch/
Debuggable Deep Learning
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/debug-dl/
Machine Learning: Living in the Age of AI | A WIRED Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJixNvx9BAc

Newsletter – Week 14, 2019

April 8, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

Articles:

The Liskov Substitution Principle at an Architectural Level
https://dzone.com/articles/the-liskov-substitution-principle-at-an-architectu
7 Reasons Why Using SELECT * FROM TABLE in SQL Query Is a Bad Idea
https://dzone.com/articles/why-you-should-not-use-select-in-sql-query-1
How Expedia Is Getting Rid of Java Bean Transformers
https://www.infoq.com/articles/expedia-rid-of-bean-transformers
The trendy five: Springing into GitHub’s trending repos of March 2019
https://jaxenter.com/github-trending-march-2019-157470.html
Sonic, the lightweight search engine backend is an alternative to Elasticsearch
https://jaxenter.com/sonic-alternative-elasticsearch-157642.html
Whacking a million moles: Automated Incident Response Infrastructure in GCP
https://labs.spotify.com/2019/04/04/whacking-a-million-moles-automated-incident-response-infrastructure-in-gcp/
Avro2TF: An Open Source Feature Transformation Engine for TensorFlow
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/04/avro2tf–an-open-source-feature-transformation-engine-for-tensor
Hey Google, sorry you lost your ethics council, so we made one for you
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613281/google-cancels-ateac-ai-ethics-council-what-next/

Videos:

High Performance Batch Processing
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/batch-performance-spring-4-1
MIT AI: OpenAI and AGI (Greg Brockman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIrEM2FbOLU
MLConf NYC 2019
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrbAIdPI69Pj12qdrEJZ-QllyAXGjFjH-

Newsletter – Week 13, 2019

April 3, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Windows containers now supported in Kubernetes
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/03/25/windows-server-containers-now-supported-kubernetes/
Kubernetes 1.14 arrives with tons of new features and major updates
https://jaxenter.com/kubernetes-1-14-arrives-157252.html
What’s new in IntelliJ IDEA 2019.1?
https://jaxenter.com/intellij-idea-2019-1-release-highlights-157348.html

Articles:

Java Stream API Was Broken Before JDK 10
https://dzone.com/articles/java-stream-api-was-broken-before-jdk-10
Java 12: Mapping With Switch Expressions
https://dzone.com/articles/java-12-mapping-with-switch-expressions-1
The official schedule for JDK 13 is here
https://jaxenter.com/keeping-track-of-jdk-13-155201.html
Jakarta EE 9: 2019 Outlook
https://jaxenter.com/jakarta-ee-9-2019-outlook-156970.html
An Introduction to Docker and Containerization
https://dzone.com/articles/learn-docker-easily-in-30-minutes
AI Trends for 2019
https://dzone.com/articles/ai-trends-for-2019-what-should-we-expect
16 Best Resources to Learn AI & Machine Learning in 2019
https://hackernoon.com/16-best-resources-to-learn-ai-machine-learning-in-2019-f95c4f59018b
Turing Award presented to Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yoshua Bengio
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/-turing-award-presented-to-yann-lecun-geoffrey-hinton-and-yoshua-bengio

Videos:

Voxxed Days Zurich 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ruRoW5P9wg&list=PLRsbF2sD7JVrRCnhTo8DoN_9JAMpZThtW
Jupyter Notebooks: Interactive Visualization Approaches
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ml-models-jupyter
Mature Microservices and How to Operate Them
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-financial-times
Google Cloud-Native Architecture with Spring Cloud GCP
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/gcp-cloud-native-arch
Artificial Intelligence Colloquium: AI R&D Ethics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSxCWLJt0wY

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