Newsletter – Week 44, 2024

Java News Roundup: JDK 24, Tomcat 11.0, Cassandra 5.0, EclipseStore 2.0, Payara Platform, Ktor 3.0
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/10/java-news-roundup-oct07-2024/

Articles

Exploring New Features in JDK 23: Gatherers upgrades pipeline design pattern JEP-473
https://foojay.io/today/exploring-new-features-in-jdk-23-gatherers-upgrades-pipeline-design-pattern-jep-461/
2024 State of API Report
https://www.postman.com/state-of-api/2024/
LLMs for Business: Fine-Tuning and Risks
https://serokell.io/blog/llms-fine-tuning-avoiding-risks
Open Source and In-House: How Uber Optimizes LLM Training
https://www.uber.com/blog/open-source-and-in-house-how-uber-optimizes-llm-training
HDR photo editing with machine learning
https://research.google/blog/hdr-photo-editing-with-machine-learning/

Videos

A Preview of What’s Coming in Project Leyden – Inside Java Newscast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9XgILeSwzk
Java’s Cyclic Object Graphs Challenges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNN8yTnA4fI
Serialization – A New Hope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbqAyRJoQO0
Rust is secretly taking over chip development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwFU-CrIB8I
Stanford Webinar – How AI is Changing Coding and Education, Andrew Ng & Mehran Sahami
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J91_npj0Nfw

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Newsletter – Week 41, 2024

October 15, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Plans for Spring 7.0, JobRunr 7.3, Keycloak 26.0, Debezium 3.0
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/10/java-news-roundup-sep30-2024/
Meta Releases Llama 3.2 with Vision, Voice, and Open Customizable Models
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/10/llama-3-2-multimodal/

Articles

InfoQ Dev Summit Munich: How to Optimize Java for the 1BRC
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/10/optimize-java-1brc/
Nine Rules for Running Rust in the Browser
https://towardsdatascience.com/nine-rules-for-running-rust-in-the-browser-8228353649d1
Designing A Fast Concurrent Hash Table
https://ibraheem.ca/posts/designing-papaya/
5 Awesome (but less known) Rust projects
https://kerkour.com/awesome-rust-projects-2024
Building a Global Caching System at Netflix: a Deep Dive to Global Replication
https://www.infoq.com/articles/netflix-global-cache/
QUIC and HTTP/3: The Next Step in Web Performance
https://devm.io/javascript/quic-http3-web-performance
Leveraging RAG-powered LLMs for Analytical Tasks
https://engineering.grab.com/transforming-the-analytics-landscape-with-RAG-powered-LLM
Hugging Face Upgrades Open LLM Leaderboard v2 for Enhanced AI Model Comparison
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/10/open-llm-leaderboard-v2-launch/
Genie: Uber’s Gen AI On-Call Copilot
https://www.uber.com/blog/genie-ubers-gen-ai-on-call-copilot
AI in the Workplace: Answering 3 Big Questions
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/651203/workplace-answering-big-questions.aspx

Videos

Loom – Where Are We?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSYAIMwu5tc
Devoxx Belgium 2024
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRsbF2sD7JVrNB1mKqklpc23hsKtvMAXm
Java Performance Update with Per-Ake Minborg – Live Q&A at Devoxx BE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwB1rdSaGQY
The Peak of Complexity with Brian Goetz – Q&A at Devoxx BE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6K_8s3Sx4s
Garbage Collection Primer with Stefan Johansson – Live Q&A at Devoxx BE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX8vL8LppNM
Serialization 2.0 with Viktor Klang – Live Q&A at Devoxx BE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdc0vHItxUY
Java Language Futures with Gavin Bierman – Live Q&A at Devoxx BE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjQz-p2icU
Loom’s Next Phases with Alan Bateman – Live Q&A at Devoxx BE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LSqxzDRZGE
Pattern Matching with Angelos Bimpoudis – Live Q&A at Devoxx BE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTeCjDPojgo
Future of Collections with Stuart Marks – Live Q&A at Devoxx BE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Fi6rVE9Oc
Ultimate VS Code setup for Rust development (2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhedgZtd8gw
Iterators in Rust Explained – Map, filter, fold (reduce) – Full Crash Rust Tutorial for Beginners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtkv5i2nelk
Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFfVt3S51T4

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Newsletter – Week 40, 2024

October 9, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Proposed Schedule for JDK 24, SecurityManager Disabled, Commonhaus Foundation
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/09/java-news-roundup-sep23-2024/
This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.82
https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2024/10/01/this-development-cycle-in-cargo-1.82.html

Articles

Exploring New Features in JDK 23: Null object pattern to avoid null pointer exception with JEP-455
https://foojay.io/today/exploring-new-features-in-jdk-23-null-object-pattern-to-avoid-null-pointer-exception-with-jep-455/
Rust needs an extended standard library
https://kerkour.com/rust-stdx
Nine Rules for Running Rust on WASM WASI
https://towardsdatascience.com/nine-rules-for-running-rust-on-wasm-wasi-550cd14c252a
Virtual Panel: What to Consider When Adopting Large Language Models
https://www.infoq.com/articles/llm-adoption-considerations/
Safety Goggles for Alchemists
https://jack.wrenn.fyi/blog/safety-goggles-for-alchemists/
Fighting deepfakes with more transparency about AI
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/fighting-deepfakes-with-more-transparency-about-ai/
Augmented object intelligence with XR-Objects
https://research.google/blog/augmented-object-intelligence-with-xr-objects/
Evolution of Catwalk: Model serving platform at Grab
https://engineering.grab.com/catwalk-evolution

Videos

Big News from Project Valhalla – Inside Java Newscast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf2Vr7Zjmj8
Heterogeneous Accelerator Toolkit (HAT) Update
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szGiOvfTPfI
Google’s adoption of Rust has finally paid off…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umhxH_AxG7I
Closures: Anonymous Functions that Capture Environment – Full Crash Rust Tutorial for Beginners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agm_oW8t8tE

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Newsletter – Week 39, 2024

September 29, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 23, GraalVM for JDK 23, Jakarta EE 11 Update, Micronaut GraalPy, Azul
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/09/java-news-roundup-sep16-2024/
Spring News Roundup: Milestones for Spring Boot, Auth Server, Integration, Modulith, Batch
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/09/spring-news-roundup-sep16-2024/
WebAssembly targets: change in default target-features
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/09/24/webassembly-targets-change-in-default-target-features.html

Articles

How to Minimize Latency and Cost in Distributed Systems
https://www.infoq.com/articles/minimize-latency-cost-distributed-systems/
Study Shows AI Coding Assistant Improves Developer Productivity
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/09/copilot-developer-productivity/
Where developers feel AI coding tools are working—and where they’re missing the mark
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/23/where-developers-feel-ai-coding-tools-are-working-and-where-they-re-missing-the-mark/
Novel Architecture Makes Neural Networks More Understandable
https://www.quantamagazine.org/novel-architecture-makes-neural-networks-more-understandable-20240911/
AI Can (Mostly) Outperform Human CEOs
https://hbr.org/2024/09/ai-can-mostly-outperform-human-ceos
Sorry, AI won’t “fix” climate change
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/28/1104588/sorry-ai-wont-fix-climate-change/

Videos

Java 23 – Better Language, Better APIs, Better Runtime
https://inside.java/2024/09/26/javazone-java23/
The genius of Rust constructors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mVkva3_z9M
Code Generation in 2024: How AI Will Take Your Job…to the Next Level! • Julien Dubois • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn6nkZP1iSY
LLMs: A Journey Through Time and Architecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itIab9ZTAqk

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Newsletter – Week 38, 2024

September 24, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java 23 Delivers Markdown Documentation, ZGC Generational Mode, Deprecate sun.misc.Unsafe
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/09/java23-released/
Java News Roundup: Payara Platform, Piranha Cloud, Spring Milestones, JBang, Micrometer, Groovy
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/09/java-news-roundup-sep09-2024/
Latest Rust Foundation Report Details Technical Accomplishments
https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/latest-rust-foundation-report-details-technical-accomplishments/

Articles

What’s New With Java 23
https://www.jrebel.com/blog/whats-new-java-23
Java 23 Has Arrived, And It Brings a Truckload of Changes
https://foojay.io/today/java-23-has-arrived-and-it-brings-a-truckload-of-changes/
Embracing Reactive Applications on JVM: a Deep Dive into Modern I/O Models and Vert.x
https://www.infoq.com/articles/reactive-java-vertx-deep-dive/
Understanding Memory Ordering in Rust
https://emschwartz.me/understanding-memory-ordering-in-rust/
Timeseries Indexing at Scale
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/timeseries-indexing-at-scale/
Eureka: Evaluating and understanding progress in AI
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/eureka-evaluating-and-understanding-progress-in-ai/
Effective Altruism vs. Effective Accelerationism in AI
https://serokell.io/blog/altruism-vs-accelerationism-ai

Videos

Reviewing the JDK 23 Release Notes – Inside Java Newscast #76
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IluRn8ecuCo
Spring Office Hours S3E31 – Java 23 Release Party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDg4OkeePLM
JEP Explained. JEP 471: Deprecate the Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe for Removal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCbqkMKegmY
Top 5 Rust books you MUST READ!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQYoSZTcUKI
Decrusting the quickcheck crate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64t-gPC33cc
Spring AI Is All You Need • Christian Tzolov • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuhMti8B5H0

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Newsletter – Week 37, 2024

September 17, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Stream Gatherers, Project Loom, Hibernate Validator, LangChain4j, Clojure
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/09/java-news-roundup-sep02-2024/

Articles

Java heap memory and garbage collection: tuning for high-performance services
https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/infrastructure/java-heap-memory-and-garbage-collection-tuning-for-high-performance-services
How we Built 300μs Typo Detection for 1.3M Words in Rust
https://trieve.ai/building-blazingly-fast-typo-correction-in-rust/
Compressing strings with FSST
https://blog.spiraldb.com/compressing-strings-with-fsst/
An Optimization That’s Impossible in Rust!
https://tunglevo.com/note/an-optimization-thats-impossible-in-rust/
Better-performing “25519” elliptic-curve cryptography
https://www.amazon.science/blog/better-performing-25519-elliptic-curve-cryptography
DataMesh: How Uber laid the foundations for the data lake cloud migration
https://www.uber.com/blog/datamesh/
One of the best ways to get value for AI coding tools: generating tests
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/10/gen-ai-llm-create-test-developers-coding-software-code-quality/
2024 Innovator of the Year: Shawn Shan builds tools to help artists fight back against exploitative AI
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/10/1102936/innovator-year-shawn-shan-2024/

Videos

Java – Integrity by Default
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNQKRBLbKIs
Rust stole C++’s best features
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjsnuirLyKM
Not Just Memory Safety: How Rust Helps Maintain Efficient Software
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/rust-efficient-software/
The C4 Model – Misconceptions, Misuses & Mistakes • Simon Brown • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqoU2C-USP0
Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) • Charity Majors • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag2ykPO805M
Highly Scalable Image Storage with AWS Serverless • Vadym Kazulkin & Firdaws Aboulaye • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCl1BViHK-s
Decoding Google Gemini with Jeff Dean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH74gNeryhQ
The Best RAG Stack Components to date (fully open-source!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyaMmSXxH2w
ChatGPT Demo of Strawberry (model o1-preview) — Hallucination Killer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlZjzXw3YsI
Is OpenAI’s latest o1 model that good?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICzPJ8zJRhY

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Newsletter – Week 36, 2024

September 9, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Class-File API, GlassFish, JHipster, JReleaser, Hibernate Search, Micronaut
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/09/java-news-roundup-aug26-2024/
Java Visual Studio Code Extension Update
https://inside.java/2024/09/07/vscode-extension-update/
Announcing Rust 1.81.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/09/05/Rust-1.81.0.html
Changes to impl Trait in Rust 2024
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/09/05/impl-trait-capture-rules.html
Alibaba Releases Two Open-Weight Language Models for Math and Voice Chat
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/09/alibaba-qwen2-models/
Grok-2 Beta Version Released on X Platform
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/09/grok-x-llm/

Articles

Java 23: What’s New?
https://foojay.io/today/java-23-whats-new/
Top Security Flaws Hiding In Your Code Right Now: And How To Fix Them
https://foojay.io/today/top-security-flaws-hiding-in-your-code-right-now-and-how-to-fix-them/
How to deadlock Tokio application in Rust with just a single mutex
https://turso.tech/blog/how-to-deadlock-tokio-application-in-rust-with-just-a-single-mutex
Deploying Rust in Existing Firmware Codebases
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/deploying-rust-in-existing-firmware.html
Best practices for cost-efficient Kafka clusters
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/04/best-practices-for-cost-efficient-kafka-clusters/
Lucene: Uber’s Search Platform Version Upgrade
https://www.uber.com/blog/lucene-version-upgrade/
Elevate Access Token Security by Demonstrating Proof-of-Possession
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2024/09/05/dpop-oauth
InfoQ AI, ML and Data Engineering Trends Report – September 2024
https://www.infoq.com/articles/ai-ml-data-engineering-trends-2024/
The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2024 | TIME
https://time.com/collection/time100-ai-2024/
AI and Blockchain Convergence
https://serokell.io/blog/ai-blockchain-integration

Videos

A New Model for Java Object Initialization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThtrTwooKDc
Project Lilliput – Beyond Compact Headers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHJ1moNLwao
JEP Explained. JEP480: Structured Concurrency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-LyK5LU3mM
Frustration-Free K8S for Spring Developers (SpringOne 2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr9HWiM3aII
Spring Tips: One-Time Tokens in Spring Security 6.4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otdPVawMXUU
Rust’s next major update is coming…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZU8kQNjAcc
Let’s split a Rust crate – Rust live coding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS5KOz9y7Cg
The Best Programmer I Know • Daniel Terhorst-North • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgaKAF_eiOg
Transforming Developer Experience: A Tale of Recovery & Innovation • Michaela Greiler • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HFRiBc0JZs
Stanford ECON295/CS323 I 2024 I Business of AI, Reid Hoffman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXjLGn14Jo4

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Newsletter – Week 35, 2024

September 2, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 23-RC2, MicroProfile 7.0, Infinispan, Maven, JHipster
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/08/java-news-roundup-aug19-2024/
Spring News Roundup: Milestone Releases for Spring Boot, Cloud, Security, Session and Spring AI
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/08/spring-news-roundup-aug19-2024/
2024 Leadership Council Survey
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/08/26/council-survey.html
Microsoft Launches Open-Source Phi-3.5 Models for Advanced AI Development
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/08/microsoft-phi-3-5/

Articles

Why Amazon, Cloduflare and Discord are building servers in Rust but you should probably not
https://kerkour.com/rust-is-bad-for-servers
I sped up serde_json strings by 20%
https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/i-sped-up-serde-json-strings-by-20-percent/
Doctests – How were they improved?
https://blog.guillaume-gomez.fr/articles/2024-08-17+Doctests+-+How+were+they+improved%3F
MiniJinja: Learnings from Building a Template Engine in Rust
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/8/27/minijinja/
Continuous deployment for large monorepos
https://www.uber.com/blog/continuous-deployment
25 Free Datasets for ML Pros Across Industries
https://serokell.io/blog/free-ml-datasets
AI is draining the electric grid – this energy tech will save us
https://www.smart-energy.com/industry-sectors/digitalisation/ai-is-draining-the-electric-grid-this-energy-tech-will-save-us/
Gemma explained: RecurrentGemma architecture
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemma-explained-recurrentgemma-architecture/

Videos

Project Leyden Update
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOPSU4LnKg0
Best of Java Performance – Inside Java Newscast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52E9bZvoB-g
Type Specialization of Java Generics – What If Casts Have Teeth ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI09cs2yUgY
The Keys to Developer Productivity: Collaborate and Innovate
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/java-developer-productivity/
SpringOne 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S6M8H2hz6w&list=PLgGXSWYM2FpPDrv8zmf3oN6SX1prqmESN&pp=iAQB
9 Rust Best Practices – Async, Project Files, Versioning (Part 3/3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93SS3VGsKx4
Ultimate Neovim setup for Rust development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2mKJ73M9pg
How might LLMs store facts | Chapter 7, Deep Learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Jl0dxWQs8
A Fun & Absurd Introduction to Vector Databases • Alexander Chatzizacharias • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hAGhmHNTQQ
AI Assistance Beyond Code: What Do We Need to Make it Work? • Birgitta Böckeler • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jwiABwGC6c
Stanford Webinar – Identifying AI Opportunities: Strategies for Market Success
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNqpySV97IU

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