News

• Java News Roundup: Introducing Spring AI, Spring Modulith 1.0, Testcontainers Desktop
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/08/java-news-roundup-aug21-2023/
• JDK 21 and JDK 22: What We Know So Far
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/09/java-21-so-far/
• Spring AI Provides Integration with OpenAI and Azure OpenAI
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/08/spring-ai/
• MicroStream Debuts Eclipse Store Java Persistence Framework at Eclipse Foundation
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/08/debut-of-eclipse-store/
• crates.io Postmortem: User Uploaded Malware
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/09/01/crates-io-malware-postmortem.html

Articles

• Java 22: Panama FFM Provides Massive Performance Improvements for Native Strings
  http://minborgsjavapot.blogspot.com/2023/08/java-22-panama-ffm-provides-massive.html
• Streamlining Code with Unnamed Patterns/Variables: a Comparative Study of Java, Kotlin, and Scala
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/comparative-study-java-kotlin-scala/
• Send your logs to Loki
  https://blog.frankel.ch/logs-loki/
• Why Rust is the most admired language among developers
  https://github.blog/2023-08-30-why-rust-is-the-most-admired-language-among-developers/
• How to Implement OAuth in Rust
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/08/30/using-oauth-with-axum
• Using Kani to write and validate Rust code with ChatGPT
  https://blog.logrocket.com/using-kani-write-validate-rust-code-chatgpt/
• The fastest WebSocket implementation
  https://c410-f3r.github.io/thoughts/the-fastest-websocket-implementation/
• Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery
  https://netflixtechblog.com/zero-configuration-service-mesh-with-on-demand-cluster-discovery-ac6483b52a51
• Why all application migrations should be incremental
  https://vercel.com/blog/incremental-migrations

Videos

• Java 21 JVM & GC Improvements
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXWbyf8SUjI
• Java 21 new feature: Virtual Threads
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E0LU85EnTI
• Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Java Class Initialization
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtbOhgfYhcM
• Project Lilliput – Compressed Object Headers
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ioh6kprnPE
• Fast JVM Startup with Checkpoint & Restore
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC98nTslxKQ
• Generational ZGC and Beyond
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyXjC68l8mw
• Rust by Example read-through – part 1 (chapters 1-8)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL9hjZAmdj4
• Creating a multi-threaded utility with Rust’s channels
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVyNAwzj5mA
• Rust + Serverless = LOVE – Maxime David – Rust Linz, July 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLBQfMo9PVo
• Connecting the Dots: API Design in a Distributed World
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/api-design-distributed-systems/
• LLaVA: Bridging the Gap Between Visual and Language AI with GPT-4
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn1B_L_zAwI
• What if your AI is wrong? Tackling AI Hallucinations with Explainability in AI (XAI)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QVMCKmRJjQ
• Andrew Ng: Opportunities in AI – 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p248yoa3oE

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News

• Java News Roundup: JDK 21 RC1, Apache Camel 4.0, Payara Platform, Apache Tomcat, Micronaut
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/08/java-news-roundup-aug14-2023/
• Announcing Rust 1.72.0
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/08/24/Rust-1.72.0.html
• Cargo changes how arrays in config are merged
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/08/24/cargo-config-merging.html

Articles

• Leveraging Eclipse JNoSQL 1.0.0: Quarkus Integration and Building a Pet-Friendly REST API
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/leveraging-jnosql-1-0/
• Using Rust GATs to improve code and application performance
  https://blog.logrocket.com/using-rust-gats-improve-code-app-performance/
• Comparing Rust vs. Zig: Performance, safety, and more
  https://blog.logrocket.com/comparing-rust-vs-zig-performance-safety-more/
• If you want to address tech debt, quantify it first
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/08/24/if-you-want-to-address-tech-debt-quantify-it-first/
• The Perils of Migrating a Large-Scale Service at Uber
  https://www.uber.com/blog/the-perils-of-migrating-a-large-scale-service-at-uber
• Bottleneck #05: Resilience and Observability
  https://martinfowler.com/articles/bottlenecks-of-scaleups/05-resilience-and-observability.html

Videos

• Continuations – Under the Covers
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nRS6UiN7X0
• The Challenges of Introducing Virtual Threads to the Java Platform – Project Loom
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsCJYQDPrrE
• A Classfile API for the JDK
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcg-E_qyMOI
• Project Panama – Foreign Function & Memory API
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUFysMkMS00
• Java and GPU … are we nearly there yet?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbKBu3lTftc
• From CPU to GPU and FPGAs: Supercharging Java Applications with TornadoVM
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTzGlnv6nuA
• Rust 1.71.0
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8aHX-JkiZs
• Rust Axum Production Coding – Rust Web Development
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cA_mk4vdWY
• Doing Rust Inference with Candle using GitHub Codespaces .Devcontainer
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALqw6vfottY
• MetaGPT: Redefining Multi-Agent Collaboration for Complex Tasks
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtxMderNrzU

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News

• Java News Roundup: Liberica JDK Performance Edition, GraalVM JDK 21 Builds, Open Liberty, Quarkus
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/08/java-news-roundup-jul31-2023/
• Java Joins the Ranks in Semantic Kernel SDK
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/08/semantic-kernel-java/
• 2022 Annual Rust Survey Results
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/08/07/Rust-Survey-2023-Results.html

Articles

• My final take on Gradle (vs. Maven)
  https://blog.frankel.ch/final-take-gradle/
• Rust Server Components
  https://anto.pt/articles/rust-server-components
• A failed experiment with Rust static dispatch
  https://jmmv.dev/2023/08/rust-static-dispatch-failed-experiment.html
• How to use Krustlet for your Rust projects
  https://blog.logrocket.com/use-krustlet-rust-projects/

Videos

• To Java 21 and Beyond!
  https://inside.java/2023/08/08/to-java21-and-beyond/
• Spring Office Hours: Episode 47 – Frontend Options
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HGYuoEY6eQ
• Rust API design: the curious case of Result
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYjMp9obcZ0
• The Database of Four Dimensional Reality – SpacetimeDB
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4EF3d2_QTg
• rustc explore session: @compiler-errors discusses coercion in hir typeck (session 2)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laY9ec3xSb8
• Open the Rust compiler’s puzzle book – weird-exprs.rs
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RydzFK11-bE
• Andreas Monitzer – Bevy-ECS explained – Rust Vienna June 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBjmRmjr4JA
• Adventures in Performance
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/factors-code-performance/
• Structural Software Design
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj9DoZsu7Ls
• How do mathematical models help predict the future? – with Erica Thompson
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhHK-6QDCr0
• How do LLMs work? Next Word Prediction with the Transformer Architecture Explained
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl3mbqOtlmM
• Harvard CS50’s Artificial Intelligence with Python – Full University Course
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NgNicANyqM

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News

• Java News Roundup: Grails 6.0, PrimeFaces 13.0, JUnit 5.10, GraalVM, TornadoVM, New JEP Drafts
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/07/java-news-roundup-jul24-2023/
• Announcing Rust 1.71.1
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/08/03/Rust-1.71.1.html
• Security advisory for Cargo (CVE-2023-38497)
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/08/03/cve-2023-38497.html
• Meta Open Sourced AudioCraft, its Text-to-Music Generative AI
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/08/meta-text-to-music-generative-ai/
• OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) 1.0.0 Released
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/08/otlp-version-one-released/

Articles

• Performance Comparison Between Different Java String Concatenation Methods
  https://www.baeldung.com/java-string-concatenation-methods
• Metadata GC Threshold in Java
  https://www.baeldung.com/java-metadata-gc-threshold
• High-throughput stream processing in Rust
  https://noz.ai/hash-pipeline/
• Was the digital transformation worth it, security-wise?
  https://securityintelligence.com/articles/was-the-digital-transformation-worth-it-security-wise/
• Hyperparameter Tuning and Evaluation of ML Models
  https://serokell.io/blog/hyperparameter-tuning-in-ml
• How Cities Are Deploying Leading Technologies Leveraging Unbiased AI Algorithms
  https://www.unite.ai/how-cities-are-deploying-leading-technologies-leveraging-unbiased-ai-algorithms/
• Unsupervised graph anomaly detection – Catching new fraudulent behaviours
  https://engineering.grab.com/graph-anomaly-model

Videos

• Strengthen your Java App’s Defenses with Key Encapsulation Mechanism API – Inside Java Newscast #54
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNnS-WdHN1E
• Spring Office Hours Episode 46 – Why Spring Boot
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD6v_BDznAU
• Building Optimized Java Microservices with Micronaut 4 & GraalVM • Graeme Rocher • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWIUPMMq9Fc
• External Dependencies – Learn Rust EP9
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfOPpV1AiiU
• Practical Data Privacy • Katharine Jarmul • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rhye-QUQpE
• Leveling Up Your Architecture Game
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/progress-communication-collaboration/
• StyleGANEX: The Game-Changing AI Model for Image Transformations
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj20I2zFYi0
• Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast #392
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8qJsk1j2zE
• AI Safety – Full Course by Safe.AI Founder on Machine Learning & Ethics (Center for AI Safety)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agEPmYdbQLs

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News

• Java News Roundup: WildFly 29, JDK 21 in RDP2, Helidon 4.0-M1, Oracle Critical Patch Updates
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/07/java-news-roundup-jul17-2023/
• GraalVM Gets Large Performance Boost, New Release Cadence and New License
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/07/graalvm-java-17-20/
• OpenJDK’s JEP 451: Balancing Serviceability and Integrity in JVM
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/07/jep-451-balancing-serviceability/
• July 2023 Leadership Council Update
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/07/25/leadership-council-update.html
• Kubeflow joins the CNCF family
  https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/07/kubeflow-joins-cncf-family.html

Articles

• Building a Rust workspace with Bazel
  https://www.tweag.io/blog/2023-07-27-building-rust-workspace-with-bazel/
• Optimizing CI/CD pipelines in your Rust projects
  https://blog.logrocket.com/optimizing-ci-cd-pipelines-rust-projects/
• Comparing Elixir with Rust and Go
  https://blog.logrocket.com/comparing-elixir-rust-go/
• The Role of Digital Twins in Unlocking the Cloud’s Potential
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/digital-twin-cloud/
• All you need to know about timeouts
  https://engineering.zalando.com/posts/2023/07/all-you-need-to-know-about-timeouts.html
• Platform engineering is just DevOps with a product mindset
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/07/26/platform-engineering-is-just-devops-with-a-product-mindset/
• Six ways that AI could change politics
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/07/28/1076756/six-ways-that-ai-could-change-politics/

Videos

• Spring Office Hours: Episode 45 – What’s new in Spring
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUKqjRV1zEE
• timClicks Community Call – July 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx2vIYnAM7g
• Dozens of creative coding projects to try using Rust, Nannou and egui
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9yyCQ9YHz4
• Explaining priority queues; how to build them with Rust
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCNjzoKHtHk
• 5 programs you can’t compile with Rust
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbXrStY68_0
• Decrusting the axum crate
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnb_n5YktO8
• Microservices Retrospective – What We Learned (and Didn’t Learn) from Netflix
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-netflix-industry/
• How to find a job in AI in 2023 | Tips to Secure an ML Engineer job with @TheAIEpiphany
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6CX6eevjZs

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News

• Java News Roundup: Micronaut 4.0, Payara Platform, Spring Web Flow 3.0, JetBrains AI Assistant
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/07/java-news-roundup-jul10-2023/
• Micronaut Framework 4: Faster, More Cloud Native, Better Than Ever
  https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/micronaut-4-faster-more-cloud-native-better
• Micronaut 4.0.0 Brings Java Virtual Threads, GraalVM Support and Experimental HTTP/3 Features
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/07/micronaut-brings-virtual-thread/

Articles

• How Turborepo is porting from Go to Rust
  https://vercel.com/blog/how-turborepo-is-porting-from-go-to-rust
• Why Rust is a great fit for embedded software – 2023 update
  https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/96/why-rust-is-a-great-fit-for-embedded-software-2023-update
• Writing a toy DNS Resolver in Rust
  https://stace.dev/writing-a-dns-resolver/
• Time is money: robust business clock time sync compliance reporting in financial trading
  https://www.blog.adtran.com/en/time-is-money-robust-business-clock-time-sync-compliance-reporting-in-financial-trading
• How platform teams get stuff done
  https://martinfowler.com/articles/platform-teams-stuff-done.html
• DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report – July 2023
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/cloud-devops-trends-2023/
• Square’s Updated Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers
  https://developer.squareup.com/blog/squares-updated-growth-framework-for-engineers-and-engineering-managers/
• What is AI? An A-Z Guide to Artificial Intelligence
  https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230717-what-you-should-know-about-artificial-intelligence-from-a-z
• What Is Prompt Engineering?
  https://serokell.io/blog/what-is-prompt-engineering
• Don’t you (forget NLP): Prompt injection with control characters in ChatGPT
  https://dropbox.tech/machine-learning/prompt-injection-with-control-characters-openai-chatgpt-llm
• A developer’s guide to prompt engineering and LLMs
  https://github.blog/2023-07-17-prompt-engineering-guide-generative-ai-llms/
• Llama 2: New Open Source Language Model From Meta Released
  https://devm.io/machine-learning/llama-2-ai-language-model
• Artificial Intelligence and AI at Scale
  https://www.bcg.com/capabilities/artificial-intelligence

Videos

• What’s Arriving for JFR in JDK 21 – Inside Java Newscast #53
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB3_jMzOxAw
• Rust’s iterators are more interesting than they look
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dad1NQdjd0I
• Crate of the week 503 – dysk
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFHysdr55os
• Extend Rust’s standard library however you choose
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0h745j7OGc
• Unpack serde_json and serde::Serialize for Rust
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnOP43bVyq8
• Untangle your Markdown-based documentation from your Rust source code
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FBmNHQAYMg
• My Recommended Rust Web Stack
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pocWrUj68tU
• Deploy your Rust project in 20 minutes
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gMzg77Qjm0
• Democratising Software Architecture • Eoin Woods • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFWNY643BXY
• Software Design Goals
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Ruv5jotQk

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News

• Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11 Updates, Quarkus LTS, Micronaut, Foojay Board, DevBCN, JCrete
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/07/java-news-roundup-jul03-2023/
• Enhanced Testcontainers and Development-Time Containers Support in Spring Boot 3.1
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/07/enhanced-testcontainers-support/
• Vaadin 24.1.0: Enhancing Web Application Development with New Features and Optimizations
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/07/vaadin-release-24/
• Announcing Rust 1.71.0
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/07/13/Rust-1.71.0.html

Articles

• Unit-testing a web service in Rust
  https://jmmv.dev/2023/07/unit-testing-a-web-service.html
• Implement a WebAssembly WebGL viewer using Rust
  https://blog.logrocket.com/implement-webassembly-webgl-viewer-using-rust/
• Zero traffic cost for Kafka consumers
  https://engineering.grab.com/zero-traffic-cost
• Attribute-Based Access Control at Uber
  https://www.uber.com/blog/attribute-based-access-control-at-uber/
• A Guide to F1 Score
  https://serokell.io/blog/a-guide-to-f1-score
• Mustafa Suleyman: My new Turing test would see if AI can make $1 million
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/07/14/1076296/mustafa-suleyman-my-new-turing-test-would-see-if-ai-can-make-1-million/

Videos

• Java’s Startup Booster: CDS
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvlQv1Dh-HU
• Teach yourself how to write idiomatic Rust code
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkLvbAAq80Q
• What’s inside Box T? Let’s build one to find out
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3G4x3oJOlI
• Rust Traits – Learn Rust EP.8
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJwjcoVVNfI
• Boosting Developer Productivity with the Spring CLI
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccj2-FsfnzE
• Build A Full Stack Chatbot in Rust (feat. Leptos & Rustformers)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAjle3c9Xqc
• C4 Models as Code • Simon Brown • YOW! 2022
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aiAkUm7rzQ
• Azure Cosmos DB: Low Latency and High Availability at Planet Scale
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/azure-cosmos-db-scalability/
• Leaving Google DeepMind to start his own Startup! Aleksa Gordić – The What’s AI Podcast Episode 18
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdyAE1vhLmY

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News

• Java News Roundup: Open Liberty InstantOn and Liberty Tools, Gradle 8.2, Spring Cloud, GlassFish
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/07/java-news-roundup-jun26-2023/
• Java Enhances Z Garbage Collector with Generational Capabilities
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/07/java-enhance-zgc/
• JEP 441: Transforming Java with Pattern Matching for switch
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/07/tranforming-java-pattern/
• Announcing regex 1.9
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/07/05/regex-1.9.html

Articles

• [Rust] — Rust’s concepts intuitively explained — Part 1(Visualized)
  https://medium.com/@quackquackquack/rust-rusts-concepts-intuitively-explained-part-1-visualized-b3379cbaac0f
• Tree-Structured Concurrency
  https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/tree-structured-concurrency/
• A persistent task queue in Rust
  https://jmmv.dev/2023/06/iii-iv-task-queue.html
• How to think about async/await in Rust
  https://cliffle.com/blog/async-inversion/
• Lessons Learned From Running Web Experiments
  https://developer.squareup.com/blog/lessons-learned-from-running-web-experiments/

Videos

• Java 21 is no LTS Version – Inside Java Newscast #52
  https://inside.java/2023/07/06/java-21-is-no-lts/
• Rust is easy… (we make it hard)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06CVZKbNvgE
• The central concepts of Rust
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-kDVP1U3Do
• Render the Julia set in 3 dozen lines of Rust code
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4vN2Z0JuZI
• Produce JSON-formatted output from Rust’s tracing crate
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoCrkbK3sos
• Pattern matching within Rust functions for type-safe APIs – Learn Rust Creatively
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFJaJjWOcr4
• A tour of the Axum web framework for Rust (while explaining a few error messages)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbBZM7cReBc
• Live coding a full stack webapp with Rust, Actix, SQLx, Dioxus, and Shuttle
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCpILwGas-M
• Software Design Introduction
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfQ_ZLttsPM
• Large-Scale Architecture: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simplicity • Randy Shoup • YOW! 2022
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oejXFgvAwTA
• Sabotaging a Transformation • Fred George • YOW! 2022
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc69tnl1zMU
• Building Google Maps’ Algorithm & AI Research at Google Deepmind – The What’s AI Podcast Episode 17
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2cj0-HTCC4

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