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 47, 2019

November 25, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

GraalVM 19.3 Brings JDK 11 Support
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/11/graalvm-19-3-jdk-11/

Articles:

Java 14: Four new JEPs target JDK 14 & one JEP withdrawn
https://jaxenter.com/java-14-update-news-163585.html
Why I Am Thankful for Java
https://dzone.com/articles/thankful-for-java https://dzone.com/articles/thankful-for-java
13 Practices for Better Code Reviews
https://www.infoq.com/articles/practices-better-code-reviews/
7 Arguments Against DevOps
https://dzone.com/articles/7-arguments-against-devops
Lessons Learned in Performance Testing
https://www.infoq.com/articles/lessons-learned-performance-testing/
Using Kafka to throttle QPS on MySQL shards in bulk write APIs
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/using-kafka-to-throttle-qps-on-mysql-shards-in-bulk-write-apis-a326ae0f1ac1
Using deep learning to perfect newspaper supply and demand
https://medium.com/the-telegraph-engineering/telegraph-circulation-optimisation-a-deep-learning-approach-6506a96b622e

Videos:

Lessons from Leading a “You Build It, You Run It” Team
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/lessons-adopting-devops/
Michael Kearns: Algorithmic Fairness, Bias, Privacy, and Ethics in Machine Learning | AI Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzdxbzHtjgs
Dava Newman: Space Exploration, Space Suits, and Life on Mars | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fI6bYnRgSc
Gilbert Strang: Linear Algebra, Deep Learning, Teaching, and MIT OpenCourseWare | AI Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEZPfmGCEk0

Newsletter – Week 46, 2019

November 18, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Docker Enterprise Business and Team Go to Mirantis While Docker Gets New Funding
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/11/mirantis-buys-docker-enterprise/

Articles:

Java 14: Five more JEPs target JDK 14 & Project Amber update
https://jaxenter.com/java-14-update-news-163585.html
JEP 366: Deprecate the ParallelScavenge + SerialOld GC Combination
https://jaxenter.com/jep-366-deprecate-parallelscavenge-serialold-gc-combination-164174.html
How to Define Constants in Java
https://dzone.com/articles/how-to-define-constants-in-java
WaterfallProcess
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/WaterfallProcess.html
A day in the life of a Backend Foundation Engineer at Slack
https://slack.engineering/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-backend-foundation-engineer-at-slack-1adafc407891
Spotify’s Event Delivery – Life in the Cloud
https://labs.spotify.com/2019/11/12/spotifys-event-delivery-life-in-the-cloud/
TensorFlow: Tutorials and Articles
https://dzone.com/articles/tensorflow-tutorials

Videos:

Chaos Engineering for People Systems
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/teams-google/
Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smK9dgdTl40
MLConf SF 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVtYSvv_mGA&list=PLrbAIdPI69Pjn3SSiVhv1ylnk5h2Fv4Z-

Newsletter – Week 45, 2019

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Gradle 6.0 brings Java 13 support, better dependency management & much more
https://jaxenter.com/gradle-6-0-release-java-13-support-164160.html
Quarkus 1.0.0: First Major Release for the Kubernetes-native Java Stack
https://jaxenter.com/quarkus-1-0-0-cloud-kubernetes-native-java-163997.html
VS Code 1.40 closes 4,600 GitHub issues and adds new features
https://jaxenter.com/vs-code-1-40-164080.html
Google Introduces TensorFlow Enterprise in Beta
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/11/google-tensorflow-enterprise/
OpenAI finally releases “dangerous” large-scale unsupervised language model GPT-2
https://jaxenter.com/openai-releases-language-model-gpt-2-163881.html

Articles:

JEP 365: ZGC on Windows
https://jaxenter.com/jep-365-zgc-windows-garbage-collector-164057.html
JEP 364: ZGC on macOS
https://jaxenter.com/jep-364-zgc-macos-garbage-collector-163875.html
Java 8 HashMap Implementation and Performance
https://dzone.com/articles/java8-hashmap-implementation-and-performance
Programming Models for Servers in Java
https://dzone.com/articles/tens-of-thousands-of-socket-connections-in-java
Big Data File Formats Explained
https://dzone.com/articles/big-data-file-formats-explained
13 Mind-Blowing Things Artificial Intelligence Can Already Do Today
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/11/11/13-mind-blowing-things-artificial-intelligence-can-already-do-today
The Age of Artificial Intelligence
https://www.iso.org/isofocus_137.html
14 Different Types of Learning in Machine Learning
https://machinelearningmastery.com/types-of-learning-in-machine-learning/

Videos:

GOTO 2019 – Common API Security Pitfalls by Philippe De Ryck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss1tZjooo9I
Bjarne Stroustrup: C++ | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTxRF5ag27A

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 36, 2019

September 10, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

Articles:

Java Concurrency: CopyOnWrite
https://dzone.com/articles/java-concurrency-copy-on-write
OutOfMemoryError related JVM arguments
https://jaxenter.com/jvm-outofmemoryerror-161257.html
How Lyft Creates Hyper-Accurate Maps from Open-Source Maps and Real-Time Data
https://eng.lyft.com/how-lyft-creates-hyper-accurate-maps-from-open-source-maps-and-real-time-data-8dcf9abdd46a
State Of AI And Machine Learning In 2019
https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2019/09/08/state-of-ai-and-machine-learning-in-2019/#16bdb9821a8d

Videos:

CockroachDB: Architecture of a Geo-distributed SQL Database
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/cockroachdb-distributed-sql/
Seven Steps to Design, Build, and Scale an AI Product
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-7-steps/
Vijay Kumar: Flying Robots | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYsLTNXMl1Q

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 34, 2019

August 27, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

OpenJFX to follow Java and migrate to GitHub
https://jaxenter.com/openjfx-migrate-github-follow-java-161181.html
Git 2.23 Offers Significant Updates
https://dzone.com/articles/git-223-offers-significant-updates

Articles:

Project Loom: Java With a Stronger Fiber
https://dzone.com/articles/a-new-java-with-a-stronger-fiber
JEP drafts – removing Concurrent Mark Sweep garbage collector & ZGC support for macOS
https://jaxenter.com/jep-drafts-zgc-concurrent-mark-sweep-garbage-collector-161141.html
GraalVM 19.2.0: Preview the Java Flight Recorder plugin
https://jaxenter.com/graalvm-19-2-0-161188.html
DBT: A new way to transform data and build pipelines at The Telegraph
https://medium.com/the-telegraph-engineering/dbt-a-new-way-to-handle-data-transformation-at-the-telegraph-868ce3964eb4

Videos:

Strategic Domain-Driven Design
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/strategic-ddd/
Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6XcP4JOHmk

Newsletter – Week 33, 2019

August 20, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Microsoft acquires leading AdoptOpenJDK contributor jClarity
https://jaxenter.com/adoptopenjdk-contributor-jclarity-acquired-microsoft-161112.html
The Inaugural JakartaOne Virtual Conference Goes Lives with the Release of Jakarta EE 8
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/08/jakarta-one-conference-2019/
Gradle 5.6 released – faster Groovy compilation, new plugin for Java test fixtures & more
https://jaxenter.com/gradle-5-6-release-161049.html

Article:

java.lang.Record: Draft Specification
https://dzone.com/articles/javalangrecord-draft-specification
When to Use JSR 305 for Nullability in Java
https://dzone.com/articles/when-to-use-jsr-305-for-nullability-in-java
Java Cloning: Even Copy Constructors Are Not Enough
https://dzone.com/articles/java-cloning-even-copy-constructors-are-not-suffic
Jakarta EE & Eclipse MicroProfile – ongoing discussions
https://jaxenter.com/jakarta-ee-eclipse-microprofile-ongoing-discussions-161031.html
Upgrading Pinterest operational metrics
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/upgrading-pinterest-operational-metrics-8718d058079a
Heather VanCura, Director of the JCP, Speaks to InfoQ on the JCP 20th Anniversary
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/08/jcp-20th-anniversary/
How Kubernetes Works
https://dzone.com/articles/how-kubernetes-works
Empathy is a Technical Skill
https://www.infoq.com/articles/empathy-technical-skill/

Video:

Serverless Java
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/serverless-java-sao-paulo-2019/
Science at Uber: Applying Artificial Intelligence at Uber
https://eng.uber.com/applying-artificial-intelligence-at-uber/
Getting Started in Deep Learning with TensorFlow 2.0
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/dl-tensorflow-2/
From Research to Production With PyTorch
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/pytorch-torchscript-botorch/
Keoki Jackson: Lockheed Martin | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anXep8kBOCg

Newsletter – Week 32, 2019

August 12, 2019 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Amazon Opens a New Region in Bahrain – AWS Middle East
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/08/aws-region-middle-east-bahrain/
VS Code 1.37 updates with new product icons. Yea or nay?
https://jaxenter.com/vs-code-1-37-160903.html
So long, Spring Boot 1.x!
https://jaxenter.com/spring-boot-1-x-end-of-life-160781.html

Articles:

JEP 358 – Improved NullPointerExceptions
https://jaxenter.com/java-jep-358-improved-nullpointerexceptions-160882.html
Java Web Start is dead, long live Java Web Start!
https://jaxenter.com/java-web-start-openwebstart-160913.html
Quarkus – what’s next for the lightweight Java framework?
https://jaxenter.com/quarkus-whats-next-for-the-lightweight-java-framework-160793.html
What Every Developer Should Learn Early On
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/08/07/what-every-developer-should-learn-early-on/
Introducing Pinqueue3.0, Pinterest’s next-gen content moderation platform
https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/introducing-pinqueue3-0-pinterests-next-gen-content-moderation-platform-fcfa972bf39c

Videos:

GOTO 2019 – Practical API Design by Ronnie Mitra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=272ZZ53HS_4
Leaving the Ivory Tower: Research in the Real World
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/hashicorp-research/
Deep Learning for Recommender Systems
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/dl-models-tensorflow/
Paola Arlotta: Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVHRs3uTHNI

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