News

• Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11-M1, Payara Platform, Quarkus Release Plan, Spring Releases
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/java-news-roundup-dec18-2023/
• Announcing Rust 1.75.0
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/12/28/Rust-1.75.0.html
• Stable Diffusion in Java (SD4J) Enables Generating Images with Deep Learning
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/stable-diffusion-in-java/

Articles

• Quarkus LangChain4J Extension Allows Developers to Integrate LLMs in Their Quarkus Applications
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/quarkus-langchain-llm-integratio/
• 9 Ways to Improve Your Spring Boot Skills
  https://digma.ai/blog/the-spring-way-of-doing-things-9-ways-to-improve-your-spring-boot-skills/
• Top Features in Spring Boot 3.2
  https://digma.ai/blog/top-features-coming-in-spring-boot-3-2/
• My path to becoming a Rustacean
  https://thedataquarry.com/posts/path-to-becoming-a-rustacean/
• Getting Started with Loco in Rust: Part 1
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/12/28/using-loco-rust-rails
• Rust: Multithreading
  https://priver.dev/blog/rust/multi-threading/
• The Heart of a Language Server
  https://rust-analyzer.github.io/blog/2023/12/26/the-heart-of-a-language-server.html
• Kafka on Kubernetes: Reloaded for fault tolerance
  https://engineering.grab.com/kafka-on-kubernetes
• Top 15 Software Development Trends to Watch in 2024
  https://serokell.io/blog/software-development-trends
• Tips on How Staff Engineers Can Impact Incidents
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/staff-engineers-impact-incidents/
• The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/12/29/the-hardest-part-of-building-software-is-not-coding-its-requirements/
• Self-healing code is the future of software development
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/12/28/self-healing-code-is-the-future-of-software-development/
• How machine learning might unlock earthquake prediction
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/29/1084699/machine-learning-earthquake-prediction-ai-artificial-intelligence/
• uVitals – An Anomaly Detection & Alerting System
  https://www.uber.com/blog/uvitals-an-anomaly-detection-alerting-system/
• What to Expect in AI in 2024
  https://hai.stanford.edu/news/what-expect-ai-2024
• Three pillars of generative AI adoption in 2024, from Google Cloud’s CTO
  https://cloud.google.com/transform/2024-gen-ai-predictions-from-cto-will-grannis-three-pillars

Videos

• Rust Release Train 1.75
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDzyLFT3AwY
• Rust 1.75.0: 54 highlights in 20 minutes
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8xig7wEV68
• Should you learn Rust in 2024?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7gk3sosPLs
• Bringing EDA to the Containers World • Jessica Deen • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrUFMSsCTZM
• Empowering Architectural Evolution: Governing Event-Driven Solutions • Sam Dengler • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pv_kYflEEg
• Unlocking Faster & Efficient Data Processing w/ Serverless • Uma Ramadoss & Adam Wagner • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbt78pAfuOs
• Journey to EDA: Patterns, Best Practices & Practical Tips • David Boyne • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ujoTd2CJI
• What is Artificial Intelligence? with Mike Wooldridge
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2JY38VShxI
• The Truth about AI 1/3 – 2023 Christmas Lectures with Mike Wooldridge
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0gZAlZgI34
• The Truth about AI 2/3 – 2023 Christmas Lectures with Mike Wooldridge
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9cCztutBo
• The Truth about AI 3/3 – 2023 Christmas Lectures with Mike Wooldridge
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3IeRplsYXw
• What are the different types of Artificial Intelligence?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9btpkk_TWkI
• Needle in a 930M Member Haystack: People Search AI @LinkedIn
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/people-search-ai-linkedin/

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News

• Java News Roundup: JHipster 8.1, Piranha Cloud 23.12, Open Liberty 23.0.0.12, Tomcat Releases
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/java-news-roundup-dec11-2023/
• BellSoft Released Liberica with CRaC for Improved Startup Speed of Applications
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/bellsoft-liberica-crac/
• Oracle Java Platform Extension for VSCode Delivers Comprehensive Support for Java Applications
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/oracle-java-vscode-extension/
• Quarkus 3.7 Will Require Java 17
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/quarkus-3-7-java-17/
• Launching the 2023 State of Rust Survey
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/12/18/survey-launch.html
• Microsoft Announces Small Language Model Phi-2
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/microsoft-llm-phi/

Articles

• Deprecated Features in Java 18 thru 21 – Sip of Java
  https://inside.java/2023/12/17/sip093/
• Tracking Java Native Memory With JDK Flight Recorder
  https://www.morling.dev/blog/tracking-java-native-memory-with-jdk-flight-recorder/
• Half a Year of Rust 🦀
  https://medium.com/comsystoreply/half-a-year-of-rust-9b5d1d7ede
• Introducing Gooey: My take on a Rusty GUI framework
  https://ecton.dev/introducing-gooey/
• Introducing Loco: The Rails of Rust
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/12/20/loco-rust-rails
• Write More, Talk Less: Building Organizational Resilience through Documentation and InnerSource
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/organizational-resilience-documentation/
• How Meta built the infrastructure for Threads
  https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/19/core-infra/how-meta-built-the-infrastructure-for-threads/
• Building Trust and Combating Abuse On Our Platform
  https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2023/casal–building-trust-and-combating-abuse—the-anti-abuse-core-
• Backpropagation in Neural Networks
  https://serokell.io/blog/understanding-backpropagation
• Mapped: Interest in Generative AI by Country
  https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-interest-in-generative-ai-by-country/
• 2023, year of open LLMs
  https://huggingface.co/blog/2023-in-llms
• AI debugging at Meta with HawkEye
  https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/19/data-infrastructure/hawkeye-ai-debugging-meta/
• VideoPoet: A large language model for zero-shot video generation
  https://blog.research.google/2023/12/videopoet-large-language-model-for-zero.html

Videos

• Java Highlights of 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxpHg_GzpnY
• Spring Office Hours: Episode 61 – Spring 2023 Recap
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RFq3lsnLS8
• Ok, Err, and some secret third thing
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2DQB4D-Qvg
• Eventual Consistency – Don’t Be Afraid!
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/eventual-consistent/
• 2023, in 13 minutes
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7H6kobw-lo
• AI Expert answers YOUR Questions
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Rs0bzab94
• Professor Chris Manning AI Q&A – Full Version
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe-4W1-mdIQ
• What’s the future for generative AI? – The Turing Lectures with Mike Wooldridge
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b76gsOSkHB4
• Hello Deep Learning • Bert Hubert • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1cNqV1bNEw
• Jerry Liu on the Future of AI: LlamaIndex, LLMs, RAG, Prompting and more
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZxl4gpe3OM

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News

• Java News Roundup: JDK 22, Spring CVEs, Liberica JDK, JDKMon 21, Jupyter for Java, Gradle 8.5
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/java-news-roundup-nov27-2023/
• JHipster 8 Upgrades to Spring Boot 3, Hibernate 6.2, Node 18 LTS, Vue 3 and Angular 16
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/jhipster-version8-release/
• Helidon 4 Adopts Virtual Threads: Explore the Increased Performance and Improved DevEx
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/helidon-4-adopts-virtual-threads/
• Announcing Rust 1.74.1
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/12/07/Rust-1.74.1.html

Articles

• JEP 457: Streamlining Java Development with the Class-File API
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/jep-457-new-class-file-api/
• Writing a CLI Tool in Rust with Clap
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/12/08/clap-rust
• Getting Started with Axum – Rust’s Most Popular Web Framework
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/12/06/using-axum-rust
• Diverging Functions – functions that never return
  https://rust.code-maven.com/diverging-functions
• Behind the Scenes of Rust String Formatting: format_args!()
  https://blog.m-ou.se/format-args/
• Upgrading GitHub.com to MySQL 8.0
  https://github.blog/2023-12-07-upgrading-github-com-to-mysql-8-0/
• Google Accused of Misleading With Gemini Announcement Video
  https://www.unite.ai/google-accused-of-misleading-with-gemini-announcement-video/
• Why GPUs Are Great for AI
  https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/why-gpus-are-great-for-ai/
• MatterGen: Property-guided materials design
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/mattergen-property-guided-materials-design/

Videos

• Java 22 Unpacking – Inside Java Newscast #59
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skXY0tD6i-M
• Getting Started with Generational ZGC
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpkbJGRCwRo
• AWS now officially supports Rust!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSN_NaHSfhE
• Does Rust solve the billion dollar mistake?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI8rWvxIOK8
• Rust’s lifetimes made easy
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-8M-5uQhKA
• T to &’static T
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFr85TkBwVs
• Rust Argon 2 Password Hashing with Multi-Scheme pattern
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E0zK5h9zEs
• 10 Learnings From Running Production Infrastructure at Google • Christof Leng • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNgaU_X8jdw
• Why AI Chess Bots Are Virtually Unbeatable (ft. GothamChess) | WIRED
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdFLEfRr3Qk
• Lucas Beyer (Google DeepMind) – Convergence of Vision & Language
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1Ha3tw6d4
• Tanishq Abraham (PhD at 19) – MedARC
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shkHEzSgCIU

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News

• Java News Roundup: Spring Boot 3.2, Spring Pulsar 1.0, Hibernate 6.4, JEP 447 Targeted to JDK 22
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/11/java-news-roundup-nov20-2023/
• Javet 3.0.2 Released: Bridging Java and JavaScript with Enhanced Features
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/12/javet-302-released/

Articles

• InfoQ Java Trends Report – November 2023
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-trends-report-2023/
• How to Aim For High JVM GC Throughput
  https://devm.io/java/java-gc-throughput-001
• Using Rust and Leptos to build beautiful, declarative UIs
  https://blog.logrocket.com/using-rust-leptos-build-beautiful-declarative-uis/
• How I Use Declarative Macros in Rust
  https://flinect.com/blog/quick-tips-rust-declarative-macros
• Rust temporary lifetimes and “super let”
  https://blog.m-ou.se/super-let/
• The Power of Prompting
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/the-power-of-prompting/
• Demystifying LLMs: How they can do things they weren’t trained to do
  https://github.blog/2023-10-27-demystifying-llms-how-they-can-do-things-they-werent-trained-to-do/
• The architecture of today’s LLM applications
  https://github.blog/2023-10-30-the-architecture-of-todays-llm-applications/
• How Many U.S. Businesses Use Artificial Intelligence?
  https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/11/businesses-use-ai.html

Videos

• Spring Office Hours: Episode 58 – Spring Boot 3.2
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opji4Hue4xM
• Axum 0.6 to 0.7 in 5 quick steps
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvWCX5ckuDE
• Intro to Large Language Models
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g

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News

• Java News Roundup: JHipster 8.0, Implicit Classes and Instance Main Methods, Kotlin 1.9.20
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/11/java-news-roundup-oct30-2023/
• WildFly 30 Application Server Gets Ready for JDK 21
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/11/wildfly-30-ready-for-jdk21/

Articles

• Java MVC Frameworks Comparison
  https://www.jrebel.com/blog/java-mvc-frameworks-comparison
• A four year plan for async Rust
  https://without.boats/blog/a-four-year-plan/
• Using Modern Linux Sockets
  https://devork.be/blog/2023/11/modern-linux-sockets/
• Faster compilation with the parallel front-end in nightly
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/11/09/parallel-rustc.html
• Time Series Analysis in ML
  https://serokell.io/blog/time-series-analysis-in-ml

Videos

• Optimizing your equals() methods with Pattern Matching – JEP Cafe #21
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuzjX_efuDs
• The Rust Survival Guide
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usJDUSrcwqI
• How to Build a Successful Cloud Capability on a Heavy Regulated Organization
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/build-cloud-capability/
• What are the risks of generative AI? – The Turing Lectures with Mhairi Aitken
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si1jcl7UFqU
• From Microsoft GitHub to Google DeepMind – Paige Bailey on AI Research and Products What’s AI Ep. 21
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5nxMnTtbD4
• The AI Conference 2023
  https://aiconference.com/ai-conference-2023-shaping-the-future-of-ai/

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News

• Java News Roundup: Helidon 4.0, Eclipse Serializer 1.0, JEPs for JDK 22
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/10/java-news-roundup-oct23-2023/
• The State of Java 2023: Usage Strong, Oracle Share Declines
  https://devm.io/java/state-java-2023-azul-report

Articles

• Solving the Countdown problem with Java 21’s Language Features
  https://inside.java/2023/11/03/countdown-haskell-java/
• Can Rust prevent logic errors?
  https://itsallaboutthebit.com/logic-errors-in-rust/
• Faster Rust Serialization
  https://mo8it.com/blog/faster-rust-serialization/
• system dependencies are hard (so we made them easier)
  https://blog.axo.dev/2023/10/dependencies
• htmx, Rust & Shuttle: A New Rapid Prototyping Stack
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/10/25/htmx-with-rust
• Dealing with Dependencies in Rust
  https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/104/dealing-with-dependencies-in-rust
• All treats, no tricks: 6 solutions to common developers challenges
  https://developers.googleblog.com/2023/10/6-solutions-common-developer-challenges.html
• The False Dichotomy of Monolith vs. Microservices
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/monolith-versus-microservices/
• PinCompute: A Kubernetes Backed General Purpose Compute Platform for Pinterest
  https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/pincompute-a-kubernetes-backed-general-purpose-compute-platform-for-pinterest-8ad408df2d6f
• Streaming SQL in Data Mesh
  https://netflixtechblog.com/streaming-sql-in-data-mesh-0d83f5a00d08
• Real-Time Analytics for Mobile App Crashes using Apache Pinot
  https://www.uber.com/blog/real-time-analytics-for-mobile-app-crashes
• The architecture of today’s LLM applications
  https://github.blog/2023-10-30-the-architecture-of-todays-llm-applications/
• What is the Bletchley Declaration Signed by 28 Countries?
  https://www.unite.ai/what-is-the-bletchley-declaration-signed-by-28-countries/

Videos

• Better Java Streams with Gatherers – Inside Java Newscast #57
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epgJm2dZTSg
• Java Web App with Quarkus and JPAStreamer – Tutorial
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZnQ5R8Kd4I
• JVM Anatomy 101
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeMi8K0AFAc
• Spring Office Hours: Episode 56 – Spooky Spring
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6h_3Evbmks
• Async Not Required 🦀
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXynWxALJmo
• Async and Await Primer – Learn Rust EP10
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOLzYO4tUWI
• It’s a Kind Of Magic: Computation on Ciphertexts • Maarten Everts • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b2ZuLdRpKA
• OpenAI DALL-E 3 with James Betker (1st author)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgaTOX-RUQ4

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