Newsletter – Week 42, 2022

October 24, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Sequenced Collections, Spring 6.0-RC1, Apache Tomcat, Reactor 2022.0-RC1
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/java-news-roundup-oct10-2022/
BellSoft Introduces Alpaquita Linux for Containerized Java Applications
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/alpaquita-linux/
Two New Git Vulnerabilities Affecting Local Clones and Git Shell Patched
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/git-clone-shell-vulnerabilities/
Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2023
https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/gartner-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2023

Articles

Exceptions in lambdas
https://blog.frankel.ch/exceptions-lambdas/
Guide to Resilience4j With Spring Boot
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-resilience4j
ArchUnit Verifies Architecture Rules for Java Applications
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/archunit/
Why Rust?
https://www.rerun.io/blog/why-rust
Asynchronous programming in Rust
https://opensource.com/article/22/10/asynchronous-programming-rust
Magical handler functions in Rust
https://lunatic.solutions/blog/magic-handler-functions-in-rust/
Simplifying Developer Testing Through SLATE
https://www.uber.com/blog/simplifying-developer-testing-through-slate/
ConwaysLaw
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ConwaysLaw.html
Support Vector Machine Algorithm
https://serokell.io/blog/support-vector-machine-algorithm

Videos

IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2022 | Kubernetes Native Java
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P2sLy7NaFc
AI Image Editing with Text! (Diffusion Models & Imagic Explained)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbpPQ5kVJhM

Newsletter – Week 41, 2022

October 16, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Introducing OmniFish, Oracle Joins Micronaut Foundation, OpenJDK Updates
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/java-news-roundup-oct03-2022/
Amazon EC2 Trn1 Instances for High Performance on Deep Learning Training Models Now Available
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/aws-trn1-chip-deep-learning/

Articles

Venkat Subramaniam Brings a Contemporary Twist to GoF Design Patterns with Modern Java at Devoxx BE
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/modern-java-design-patterns/
Different test scopes in Rust
https://blog.frankel.ch/different-test-scopes-rust/
Single Pass Recursion in Rust
https://recursion.wtf/posts/rust_schemes_3/
How to Build a Machine Learning Model in Rust
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-machine-learning-model-in-rust/
The Story of Scalar
https://github.blog/2022-10-13-the-story-of-scalar/
How observability-driven development creates elite performers
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/10/12/how-observability-driven-development-creates-elite-performers/
Mussel — Airbnb’s Key-Value Store for Derived Data
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/mussel-airbnbs-key-value-store-for-derived-data-406b9fa1b296
Everything in its write place: Cloud storage abstraction with Object Store
https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/abstracting-cloud-storage-backends-with-object-store
Introducing WorkflowGuard: The Workflow Governance and Observability System That Oversees over 120,000 Data Workflows
https://www.uber.com/blog/introducing-workflowguard/
Bottleneck #03: Product v Engineering
https://martinfowler.com/articles/bottlenecks-of-scaleups/03-product-v-engineering.html
Understanding the US ‘AI Bill of Rights’ – and how it can help keep AI Accountable
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/understanding-the-ai-bill-of-rights-protection/
Data Poisoning: Is There a Solution?
https://www.unite.ai/data-poisoning-is-there-a-solution/

Videos

Java 19 Overview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBUP7DeyXsc
Devoxx Belgium 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Y6VqKVjuM&list=PLRsbF2sD7JVolUH45EkGXsT-3spU7cqnS
IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2022 | Should I Upgrade to Java 17?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wMdUtL_fSg
Rust – The Bad Parts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK1RSiKSJ9s
Rust makes cents (Speed is a FEATURE) [RUST-11]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dvf6kM70qM
Static Async Concurrency in Rust | cph.rs meetup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbGQGfEzg58
3D Renderings from Text! DreamFusion Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuU0VRIcjE
Ask Me Anything: A Simple Strategy For Prompting Language Models | Paper Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNe5QGOJykE

GitHub Trends – September 2022

October 14, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

Welcome to Java and Rust GitHub trends September 2022 edition. Let’s get started!

Java

StreamPark

Total stars: 2509

Last month stars: 537

Growth: 21%

https://github.com/apache/incubator-streampark

About the project: easy-to-use streaming application development framework and operation platform.

Eaglercraft

Total stars: 810

Last month stars: 106

Growth: 13%

https://github.com/lax1dude/eaglercraft

About the project: Eaglercraft is real Minecraft 1.5.2 that you can play in any regular web browser.

xManager

Total stars: 2762

Last month stars: 323

Growth: 12%

https://github.com/xManager-v2/xManager-Spotify

About the project: an Android application where you can manage and install all versions of the Spotify app.

Rust

SurrealDB

Total stars: 12918

Last month stars: 9157

Growth: 71%

https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb

About the project: SurrealDB is an end-to-end cloud native database for web, mobile, serverless, jamstack, backend, and traditional applications. SurrealDB reduces the development time of modern applications by simplifying your database and API stack, removing the need for most server-side components, allowing you to build secure, performant apps quicker and cheaper. SurrealDB acts as both a database and a modern, realtime, collaborative API backend layer.

CYFS

Total stars: 980

Last month stars: 489

Growth: 50%

https://github.com/buckyos/CYFS

About the project: CYFS is the next-generation technology to build real Web3 by upgrading the basic protocol of Web (TCP/IP+DNS+HTTP). It has a subversive architectural design that everyone brings their own OOD (Owner Online Device) to form a truly decentralized network.

Lapce

Total stars: 18637

Last month stars: 4765

Growth: 26%

https://github.com/lapce/lapce

About the project: lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust. Lapce (IPA: /læps/) is written in pure Rust with a UI in Druid (which is also written in Rust). It is designed with Rope Science from the Xi-Editor which makes for lightning-fast computation, and leverages OpenGL for rendering.

Ockam

Total stars: 2493

Last month stars: 520

Growth: 21%

https://github.com/build-trust/ockam

About the project: Ockam is a suite of open source tools, programming libraries, and managed cloud services to orchestrate end-to-end encryption, mutual authentication, key management, credential management, and authorization policy enforcement – at massive scale.

Observations

The “StreamPark” project from the Java category as an Apache Incubating project demonstrates good growth in September. It’s a single leader in the Java category in that month.
The “SurrealDB” project from the Rust category showed tremendous growth in September with more than 70% of starts added during this month with a total number of stars of more than 12k.
The Web3 fans will be definitely interested to look into the “CYFS” project from the Rust category.
Bored with your code editor it is a good time to try the “Lapce” project from the Rust category.

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Newsletter – Week 40, 2022

October 9, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: BellSoft Introduces Alpaquita Linux, GlassFish, WildFly, Hibernate, Tomcat
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/java-news-roundup-sep26-2022/
Spring Boot 3 Ships November 2022, Delays Java Module Support
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/spring-boot-3-jax-london/
Highlights from Git 2.38
https://github.blog/2022-10-03-highlights-from-git-2-38/
OpenAI Releases 1.6 Billion Parameter Multilingual Speech Recognition AI Whisper
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/openai-whisper-speech/

Articles

Rewriting the Modern Web in Rust
https://implfuture.dev/blog/rewriting-the-modern-web-in-rust#rewriting-the-modern
How to call a C function from Rust
https://github.com/vanjacosic/rust-ffi-to-c
Model an ALU circuit in Rust
https://www.superperfundo.tech/articles/alu-model
Comparing Rust and Scala
https://blog.logrocket.com/comparing-rust-scala/
If you need a TCP replacement, you won’t find a QUIC one
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/07/quic_tcp_replacement/
uBuild: Fast and Safe Building of Thousands of Container Images
https://www.uber.com/blog/ubuild-fast-and-safe-building-of-thousands-of-container-images/
Data Warehouses vs. Data Lakes vs. Data Lakehouses
https://serokell.io/blog/data-warehouse-vs-lake-vs-lakehouse
Beyond A/B Test : Speeding up Airbnb Search Ranking Experimentation through Interleaving
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/beyond-a-b-test-speeding-up-airbnb-search-ranking-experimentation-through-interleaving-7087afa09c8e
element: Walmart’s Machine Learning Platform
https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/element-walmarts-machine-learning-platform-b8a1f7870784
Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights/

Videos

AppCDS Autogenerate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQj4KM_-ZVI
Why companies are migrating from C++ to Rust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzK2maO89uw
Using Git on The Command Line Effectively
https://blog.sebastian-daschner.com/entries/git-command-line-tips
Death Of The “Spotify Model” by Gijs Meijer & Marcin Pakulnicki – GOTO 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3AHdo34gWM
OpenAI’s Whisper Model Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFOkMme19Zs
Make-A-Video: Text-To-Video Generation Without Text-Video Data | Paper Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmAJk2BD6WA
What You Should Know before Deploying ML in Production
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ml-production-tips/

JDK 19

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Newsletter – Week 39, 2022

October 2, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Quality Outreach Heads-up – JDK 20 – Support for 1.7 source and target removed from javac
https://inside.java/2022/09/26/quality-heads-up/
Java News Roundup: JDK 19 and Jakarta EE 10 Released, String Templates, Payara Platform
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/09/java-news-roundup-sep19-2022/
JUnit 5.9 Supports GraalVM Native Image
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/09/junit-5-9/
Helidon 3.0 Introduces Project Starter and Requires Java 17 and Jakarta EE 9.1
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/09/helidon-3-0/
Jakarta EE 10 Delivers New Core Profile and Updates to Specifications
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/09/jakarta-ee-10-updates/
Introducing Make-A-Video: An AI system that generates videos from text
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/generative-ai-text-to-video/

Articles

Introducing Spring Boot Migrator
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/09/spring-boot-migrator/
AppCDS Autogenerate – Sip of Java
https://inside.java/2022/09/26/sip067/
Better Java logging, inspired by Clojure and Rust
https://mccue.dev/pages/9-25-22-better-java-logging
Apache APISIX loves Rust!
https://blog.frankel.ch/rust-apisix/1/
Building a Real-Time Web Cipher with Rust, Sycamore and Trunk
https://rsdlt.github.io/posts/rust-sycamore-trunk-wasm-iterators-vigenere-cipher/
Why Async Rust
https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/why-async-rust/
Walmart’s Multi-Cloud Machine Learning Platform
https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/walmarts-multi-cloud-machine-learning-platform-a1ab08ff1e4a
The Development of Artificial Intelligence in China: Development points and projects
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/09/28/the-development-of-artificial-intelligence-in-china-development-points-and-projects/

Videos

Loom in the Java Ecosystem – Inside Java Newscast #34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9hQvJO39uM
Legacy Systems & Digital Transformations by Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn & Hannes Lowette – GOTO 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OUm8BJR7Fg
Building and Scaling Developer Environments at Stripe
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/stripe-dev-env-infrastructure/
Five Behaviours to Become an Effective Staff-Plus Engineer
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/5-behaviours-staff-plus/
The Engineering of Tesla Robot: The Software.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e0BavdzFS8
The Engineering of Tesla Robot: The Hardware.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUd5BFtpERk
An AI that generates videos from text | Make-A-Video Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWwESVyHWto

Newsletter – Week 38, 2022

September 25, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Helidon Níma, Spring Framework, MicroProfile, MicroStream, Kotlin, Piranha
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/09/java-news-roundup-sep12-2022/
Lightbend Changes Akka License and Is No Longer Open Source
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/09/akka-no-longer-open-source/
Apache ShenYu: Java Responsive API Gateway Announced as Apache Top-Level Project
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/09/shenyu-gateway/
Announcing Rust 1.64.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/09/22/Rust-1.64.0.html
Linus Torvalds: Rust will go into Linux 6.1
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-rust-will-go-into-linux-6-1/

Articles

The Arrival of Java 19
https://inside.java/2022/09/20/the-arrival-of-java-19/
The 5 Most Pivotal and Innovative Additions to OpenJDK 19
https://foojay.io/today/the-5-most-pivotal-and-innovative-additions-to-openjdk-19/
Quality Outreach Heads-up – JDK 19 – Double.toString() and Float.toString() changes
https://inside.java/2022/09/23/quality-heads-up/
JDK 19 Security Enhancements
https://seanjmullan.org/blog/2022/09/22/jdk19
JDK 19 G1/Parallel/Serial GC changes
https://tschatzl.github.io/2022/09/16/jdk19-g1-parallel-gc-changes.html
Virtual Threads: New Foundations for High-Scale Java Applications
https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-virtual-threads/
Building Rust microservices with Apache Kafka
https://blog.logrocket.com/building-rust-microservices-apache-kafka/
Why We Chose Rust
https://aembit.io/blog/why-we-chose-rust
Ten challenges for Rust
https://www.ncameron.org/blog/ten-challenges-for-rust/
PostgresML is Moving to Rust for our 2.0 Release
https://postgresml.org/blog/postgresml-is-moving-to-rust-for-our-2.0-release/
Why Rust is actually good for your car.
https://medium.com/volvo-cars-engineering/why-volvo-thinks-you-should-have-rust-in-your-car-4320bd639e09
API consumers – between search and feedback
https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2022/09/api-consumers-search-feedback/

Videos

Moving Java Forward with Java 19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pN0Ymsl1H0
Rust will make it into Linux Kernel!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSEMGz4E0Jo
Rust and Tell – Berlin – Using Rust inside Scala with robusta_jni by Bogdan Kolbik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYngGAjl33Y
Rust and Tell – Berlin – Rust tips and tricks by Zeeshan Ali
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvk-IjgIXwg
Rust and Tell – Berlin – Hot code reload in Rust by Robert Krahn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UUImyqX8j0
Crust of Rust: Build Scripts and Foreign-Function Interfaces (FFI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pePqWoTnSmQ
Building Modern Transportation System with KubeEdge: How We Made It
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/kubeedge-use-cases/
In the Pursuit of the Best Developer Experience by Ivan Krnic & Kresimir Musa – GOTO 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abdp_BnRIx0
The Secret Strategy for Landing That Staff Engineer Role
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/get-staff-plus-role/
How to think about feelings – with Leonard Mlodinow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVTThrua62s
Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars | Lex Fridman Podcast #322
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36_rM7wpN5A
BigScience BLOOM | 3D Parallelism Explained | Large Language Models | ML Coding Series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTChDs5uD8I
OpenAI Whisper: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision | Paper and Code
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwJf8aQfChE

GitHub Trends – August 2022

September 21, 2022 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

Welcome to Java and Rust GitHub trends August 2022 edition. Let’s go!

Java

Eaglercraft

Total stars: 59

Last month stars: 706

Growth: 8%

https://github.com/lax1dude/eaglercraft

About the project: Eaglercraft is real Minecraft 1.5.2 that you can play in any regular web browser.

Termux

Total stars: 1034

Last month stars: 15296

Growth: 7%

https://github.com/termux/termux-app

About the project: Termux – a terminal emulator application for Android OS extendible by variety of packages.

DataHub

Total stars: 420

Last month stars: 6278

Growth: 7%

https://github.com/datahub-project/datahub

About the project: DataHub is an open-source metadata platform for the modern data stack.

DSA-Bootcamp-Java

Total stars: 571

Last month stars: 8613

Growth: 7%

https://github.com/kunal-kushwaha/DSA-Bootcamp-Java

About the project: this repository consists of the code samples, assignments, and notes for the Java Data Structures & Algorithms bootcamp of Community Classroom.

Rust

Starcoin

Total stars: 610

Last month stars: 1088

Growth: 56%

https://github.com/starcoinorg/starcoin

About the project: Starcoin – a smart contract blockchain network that scales by layering.

The Move Language

Total stars: 315

Last month stars: 869

Growth: 36%

https://github.com/move-language/move

About the project: Move is a programming language for writing safe smart contracts originally developed at Facebook to power the Diem blockchain.

Sui

Total stars: 378

Last month stars: 1543

Growth: 24%

https://github.com/MystenLabs/sui

About the project: Sui is a next-generation smart contract platform with high throughput, low latency, and an asset-oriented programming model powered by the Move programming language.

Aptos-core

Total stars: 798

Last month stars: 3655

Growth: 22%

https://github.com/aptos-labs/aptos-core

About the project: Aptos-core strives towards being the safest and most scalable layer one blockchain solution.

The Algorithms – Rust

Total stars: 1745

Last month stars: 10761

Growth: 16%

https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Rust

About the project: all algorithms implemented in Rust.

Observations

There are no strong leaders in the Java category in the August report.
DataHub from the Java category seems very promising and has already been adopted by companies like Expedia Group, LinkedIn, Peloton, ThoughtWorks, and others.
If you want to learn data structures and algorithms in Java the “DSA-Bootcamp-Java” project from the Java category might be interesting for you. There is also “The Algorithms – Rust” project from the Rust category for Rust fans.
Blockchain, smart contracts it is all about Rust.

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