Newsletter – Week 24, 2021

June 20, 2021 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup – Week of June 7th, 2021
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/06/java-news-roundup-jun07-2021/
AWS Announces the General Availability of AWS Proton
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/06/aws-proton-container-ga/

Articles

Java – Path vs File
https://www.baeldung.com/java-path-vs-file
Interface With Default Methods vs Abstract Class
https://www.baeldung.com/java-interface-default-method-vs-abstract-class
Private Methods in Java Interfaces
https://www.baeldung.com/java-interface-private-methods
Handling Flaky Unit Tests in Java
https://eng.uber.com/handling-flaky-tests-java/
Kafka Streams vs. Kafka Consumer
https://www.baeldung.com/java-kafka-streams-vs-kafka-consumer
Working with AWS DynamoDB and Spring
https://reflectoring.io/spring-dynamodb/
Quick and Seamless Release Management for Java projects with JReleaser
https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-release-management-with-jreleaser/
Visualizing memory management in Rust
https://deepu.tech/memory-management-in-rust/
Beginner’s Guide to Running Rust on AWS Lambda
https://dev.to/nicholaschiasson/beginner-s-guide-to-running-rust-on-aws-lambda-277n
Making POST and PATCH requests idempotent
https://www.mscharhag.com/api-design/rest-making-post-patch-idempotent
Performance Tuning in Microservices
https://dzone.com/articles/performance-tuning-in-microservices
Hybrid Multicloud Adoption
https://dzone.com/articles/hybrid-multicloud-adoption
Our latest updates on Fully Homomorphic Encryption
https://developers.googleblog.com/2021/06/our-latest-updates-on-fully-homomorphic-encryption.html
4 reasons to invest in knowledge sharing and documentation
https://jaxenter.com/documentation-sharing-174656.html
Leveling Up in the Management Skill Tree
https://phauer.com/2021/leveling-up-management-skill-tree/
The Growing Role Of AI And Machine Learning In Hyperautomation
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinessdevelopmentcouncil/2021/06/14/the-growing-role-of-ai-and-machine-learning-in-hyperautomation/

Videos

What’s New in Java 16
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/new-java-16/
Compare and Swap in Java
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufWVK7CHOAk
Lock-Free to Wait-Free Simulation in Rust (part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNzCj8691LE
GraphQL Anywhere – Our Journey with GraphQL Mesh & Schema Stitching by Uri Goldshtein – GOTO 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vwlkJnaV0Y
Incident Analysis Before Chaos Engineering by Nora Jones – GOTO 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCXR1b0pdaQ
Charles Hoskinson: Cardano | Lex Fridman Podcast #192
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKh8hjJNhWc

Newsletter – Week 05, 2021

February 8, 2021 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

GraalVM 21.0 Introduces a JVM Written in Java
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/01/graalvm-21-jvm-java/
JFrog to Shut Down JCenter and Bintray
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/02/jfrog-jcenter-bintray-closure/
IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 EAP 1 Supports Java 16
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/02/intellij-idea-2021-eap1-java16/
Centre for artificial intelligence for energy launched in Saudi Arabia
https://www.smart-energy.com/industry-sectors/data_analytics/centre-for-artificial-intelligence-for-energy-launched-in-saudi-arabia/

Articles:

Stranger Things About Java: The protected Modifier
https://dzone.com/articles/stranger-things-about-java-the-protected-modifier
Java Code Quality Tools Recommended by Developers
https://dzone.com/articles/java-code-quality-tools-recommended-by-developers
How to Generate and Compile Sources at Runtime in Java
https://dzone.com/articles/how-to-generate-and-compile-sources-at-runtime-in-java
Setting a Request Timeout for a Spring REST API
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-rest-timeout
Open Sourcing the Netflix Domain Graph Service Framework: GraphQL for Spring Boot
https://netflixtechblog.com/open-sourcing-the-netflix-domain-graph-service-framework-graphql-for-spring-boot-92b9dcecda18
Get Advised Method Info in Spring AOP
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-aop-get-advised-method-info
Exploring WebSocket with Rust and Tide
https://javierviola.com/post/exploring-websocket-with-rust-and-tide/
Macros in Rust: A tutorial with examples
https://blog.logrocket.com/macros-in-rust-a-tutorial-with-examples/
Is Rust a Functional Programming Language?
https://robert.kra.hn/posts/2021-02-03_is-rust-fp/
The Key Differences Between SLI, SLO, and SLA in SRE
https://dzone.com/articles/the-key-differences-between-sli-slo-and-sla-in-sre
5 Principles of Production Readiness
https://dzone.com/articles/5-principles-of-production-readiness
Application Architecture: Best Practices for Future-Proofing Your Apps
https://dzone.com/articles/application-architecture-best-practices-for-future
9 Excellent Methods to Prioritize Your Work
https://dzone.com/articles/9-excellent-methods-to-prioritize-your-work
The Cloud Trust Paradox According to Google Cloud
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/02/cloud-trust-paradox/
Next-Gen Data Movement Platform at PayPal
https://medium.com/paypal-engineering/next-gen-data-movement-platform-at-paypal-100f70a7a6b
Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021
https://slack.engineering/slacks-outage-on-january-4th-2021/
This is how we lost control of our faces
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/05/1017388/ai-deep-learning-facial-recognition-data-history/

Videos:

GOTO 2020 – HTTP/3 Is Next Generation HTTP. Is It QUIC Enough? by Daniel Stenberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUxyukqoXR4
Cloud Native Is About Culture, Not Containers
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/cloud-native-culture-2020/
What is Federated Learning?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8YYWunttOY
GOTO 2021 – How to Leverage Reinforcement Learning by Phil Winder & Rebecca Nugent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk0_LWd0WQA
Sebastian Raschka – Deep Learning News #2, Feb 6 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgbI3LeB1bg

Newsletter – Week 29, 2020

July 20, 2020July 20, 2020 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Helidon 2.0 Features New Web Client, DB Client and Command-Line Tool
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/07/oracle-releases-helidon-2/

Articles:

Explaining Microservices and Service Mesh with Istio
https://dzone.com/articles/explaining-microservices-and-service-mesh-with-ist
API Development – Glossaries
https://dzone.com/articles/rest-api-development-glossaries
Have It Your Way With MicroProfile GraphQL
https://dzone.com/articles/have-it-your-way-with-microprofile-graphql
SSH is Dead. Long Live SSH: One Million SSH Logins with Okta. Zero SSH Keys.
https://dzone.com/articles/ssh-is-dead-long-live-ssh-one-million-ssh-logins-w
What is Platform-as-a-Service? PaaS Types and Use Cases
https://dzone.com/articles/what-is-platform-as-a-service-paas-types-and-use-c
How to Choose Your Cloud Provider
https://dzone.com/articles/how-to-choose-your-cloud-provider
OpenAI’s fiction-spewing AI is learning to generate images
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/16/1005284/openai-ai-gpt-2-generates-images/
Wilson Pang, Chief Technology Officer at Appen – Interview Series
https://www.unite.ai/wilson-pang-chief-technology-officer-at-appen-interview-series/

Videos:

Does Java Need Inline Types? What Project Valhalla Can Bring to Java
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/java-valhalla-inline-types-2020/
Microservices Are for Humans, Not Machines
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-behavior-joy/
Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning | AI Podcast #108 with Lex Fridman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxi-_TT_-Nc
Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | AI Podcast #109 with Lex Fridman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9upVbGSBFo

Newsletter – Week 48, 2019

December 2, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

TensorFlow 2.1.0 will include breaking changes: First release candidate available
https://jaxenter.com/tensorflow-2-1-0-rc-0-released-164776.html
Julia v1.3: Reproducible results, Yggdrasil, & multi-threading changes
https://jaxenter.com/julia-1-3-164711.html

Articles:

GraphQL: The Future of APIs
https://dzone.com/articles/graphql-the-future-of-apis
Preventing the Top Security Weaknesses Found in Stack Overflow Code Snippets
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/12/02/preventing-the-top-security-weaknesses-found-in-stack-overflow-code-snippets/
The Artificial Intelligence Industry and Global Challenges
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/11/27/the-artificial-intelligence-industry-and-global-challenges
A Gentle Introduction to Model Selection for Machine Learning
https://machinelearningmastery.com/a-gentle-introduction-to-model-selection-for-machine-learning/

Videos:

GOTO 2019 – Quantum Computing by Jessica Pointing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2pGGNQ63GQ
Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMscNuSUy0I
Ray Dalio: Principles, the Economic Machine, Artificial Intelligence & the Arc of Life | AI Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M95m2EFb7IQ

Newsletter – Week 44, 2019

November 4, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Java 14: Six JEPs proposed to target JDK 14
https://jaxenter.com/java-14-update-news-163585.html
Microsoft announces it’s ready to contribute to OpenJDK
https://jaxenter.com/microsoft-ready-contribute-openjdk-163550.html
Google’s App Engine now supports Java 11
https://jaxenter.com/app-engine-java-11-163456.html

Articles:

JEP 363: Remove the Concurrent Mark Sweep (CMS) Garbage Collector
https://jaxenter.com/jep-363-remove-concurrent-mark-sweep-garbage-collector-163719.html
Java Feature Spotlight: Local Variable Type Inference
https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-local-variable-type-inference/
Scaling GraphQL at PayPal
https://medium.com/paypal-engineering/scaling-graphql-at-paypal-b5b5ac098810
Demystifying Security on AWS Cloud
https://dzone.com/articles/demystifying-security-on-aws-cloud
U.S. urged to invest more in AI; ex-Google CEO warns of China’s progress’
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-artificial-intelligence/u-s-government-falling-behind-on-artificial-intelligence-funding-report-idUSKBN1XE1UD

Videos:

Stanford Seminar – Edge Computing in Autonomous Vehicles (panel discussion)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klIn8dEzuAA
Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation | Artificial Intelligence Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNqqOLscOBY

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 27, 2019

July 9, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

GraalVM version 19.1 speeds up compilation & lowers execution time
https://jaxenter.com/graalvm-19-1-release-159701.html
VS Code version 1.36: New Java installer, indent guides & more
https://jaxenter.com/vs-code-june-2019-159711.html
Java EE Specifications Renamed Jakarta EE
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/07/javaee-specs-renamed-jakarta/
JUnit 5.5 arrives with several tweaks and enhancements
https://jaxenter.com/junit-5-5-highlights-159691.html
OpenAPI-to-GraphQL v1.0.0: A name change and update for OASGraph
https://jaxenter.com/openapi-to-graphql-v1-0-159822.html

Articles:

Java Concurrency: Count Down Latches
https://dzone.com/articles/java-concurrency-count-down-latches
Programmer Levels [Comic]
https://dzone.com/articles/programmer-levels
Understanding Serverless: Tips and Resources for Building Servicefull Applications
https://www.infoq.com/articles/understanding-serverless-servicefull-applications/
How to Effectively Lead Remote IT teams
https://www.infoq.com/articles/effectively-lead-remote-teams/
Agile Planning: Always Plan for a Product, Not a Project!
https://dzone.com/articles/agile-product-planning
Democratizing data analysis with Google BigQuery
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2019/democratizing-data-analysis-with-google-bigquery.html
How machine learning is unlocking the secrets of human movement – and reshaping pro sports
https://news.microsoft.com/transform/machine-learning-unlocking-secrets-human-movement-reshaping-pro-sports/

Videos:

Building and Scaling a High-Performance Culture
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/autonomy-trust-pragmacy-teams/
An Engineer’s Guide to a Good Night’s Sleep
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-failure-insights/
Document Digitization: Rethinking OCR with Machine Learning
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ocr-ml-doc-digitization/
Policing the Capital Markets with ML
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/capital-markets-ml/

Newsletter – Week 19, 2019

May 13, 2019 / ilapitan / 1 Comment

News:

Critical Remotely Exploitable Vulnerability Discovered in Oracle WebLogic Server
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/05/critical-remote-vuln-weblogic
GraalVM 19.0 release: “GraalVM is finally mature and ready for production use”
https://jaxenter.com/graalvm-19-158559.html

Articles:

Micrometrics to forecast application performance
https://jaxenter.com/micrometrics-forecast-performance-158510.html
Introduction to Lombok
https://dzone.com/articles/introduction-to-lombok
Spring Boot vs. Spring MVC vs. Spring: How Do They Compare?
https://dzone.com/articles/spring-boot-vs-spring-mvc-vs-spring-how-do-they-compare
GraphQL vs. REST: What’s Best for Web Content Management
https://dzone.com/articles/graphql-vs-rest-whats-best-for-web-content-managem
How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh
https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-monolith-to-mesh.html
Partly Cloudy: Architecture
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2019/partly-cloudy-architecture.html
10 Common Scrum Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
https://dzone.com/articles/10-common-scrum-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them
Agile Documentation: Fact or Fiction?
https://dzone.com/articles/agile-documentation-fact-or-fiction

Videos:

Running Kubernetes in production: A million ways to crash your cluster
https://jaxenter.com/running-kubernetes-in-production-158555.html
What We Got Wrong: Lessons from the Birth of Microservices
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/google-lessons-microservices
Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators | Artificial Intelligence Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCd3CzGSte8

Newsletter – Week 03, 2019

January 21, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

JDK 12 enters Rampdown Phase Two
https://jaxenter.com/jdk-12-is-in-rampdown-phase-two-153269.html

Articles:

Visual Studio Code for Java: the Ultimate Guide 2019
https://dzone.com/articles/visual-studio-code-for-java-the-ultimate-guide-201
Everything About HTTPS and SSL (Java)
https://dzone.com/articles/ssl-in-java
What’s Wrong With Small Objects in Java?
https://dzone.com/articles/whats-wrong-with-small-objects-in-java
The Comforts of GraphQL With AWS AppSync
https://dzone.com/articles/the-comforts-of-graphql-with-aws-appsync
Why Do We Need Architectural Diagrams?
https://www.infoq.com/articles/why-architectural-diagrams
Architectural learning curve for the private cloud
https://jaxenter.com/architectural-learning-curve-for-the-private-cloud-154369.html
The future of open source: An increased focus on security and performance
https://jaxenter.com/silber-future-open-source-154714.html
Empowering Data Science with Engineering Education
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/empowering-data-science-with-data-engineering-education-ef2acabd3042
13 Industries Soon To Be Revolutionized By Artificial Intelligence
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/01/16/13-industries-soon-to-be-revolutionized-by-artificial-intelligence/
AI Trends To Watch Out For
https://www.reply.com/en/topics/artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning/ai-trend-report

Videos:

Journey to Cloud Architecture
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microsoft-tfs-azure-devops
MIT AI: Brains, Minds, and Machines (Tomaso Poggio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSyZvBrPAyk
Deep Learning State of the Art (2019) – MIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53YvP6gdD7U

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

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