News

• Java News Roundup: JDK 22 in Rampdown Phase Two, JEPs for JDK 23, Jakarta EE 11, GraalVM
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/01/java-news-roundup-jan15-2024/
• Mistral AI’s Open-Source Mixtral 8x7B Outperforms GPT-3.5
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/01/mistral-ai-mixtral/

Articles

• Benchmark JDBC Connectors and Java 21 Virtual Threads
  https://foojay.io/today/benchmark-jdbc-connectors-and-java-21-virtual-threads/
• Using Serde in Rust
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/01/23/using-serde-rust
• Making Rust binaries smaller by default
  https://kobzol.github.io/rust/cargo/2024/01/23/making-rust-binaries-smaller-by-default.html
• My Best and Worst Deadlock in Rust
  https://www.snoyman.com/blog/2024/01/best-worst-deadlock-rust/
• Writing Cronjobs in Rust
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/01/24/writing-cronjobs-rust
• Microservices and Multi-Runtime Architectures
  https://serokell.io/blog/microservices-vs-mecha
• Building an Agile Security Risk Management Program
  https://blog.developer.adobe.com/building-an-agile-security-risk-management-program-b18dd28143be
• Getting Machine Learning Projects from Idea to Execution
  https://hbr.org/2024/01/getting-machine-learning-projects-from-idea-to-execution

Videos

• Spring Office Hours S3E3: Spring Data JPA vs JDBC vs REST
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLQqK03TziI
• 5 things I wish I knew before learning Rust
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYCBm0xAWow
• Global variables 🦀 Beginner Rust Tutorial 🦀 Learning Rust Creatively
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUd8CBJLeBM
• Evaluating Cargo script syntax proposals
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8MLYZv_54w
• The Joy of Building Large Scale Systems • Suhail Patel • YOW! 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgIyUCpNTr0
• Unleash the Power of Large Language Models (LLMs) • Daria Hvizdalova • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0exasJQ1ks
• Cognitive Digital Twins: A New Era of Intelligent Automation
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/cognitive-digital-twin/
• The Role of Data in Advancing AI: Insights from Expert Jerome Pasquero
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Z8j54JCdU
• From artificial intelligence to hybrid intelligence – with Catholijn Jonker
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb_Os_AJXjY

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News

• Java News Roundup: Final JEP Drafts, Payara 2024 Roadmap, TornadoVM Plugin for IntelliJ
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/01/java-news-roundup-jan08-2024/

Articles

• Stepping in 2024 with Powerful Java Language Features
  https://inside.java/2024/01/16/wrapup-java-lang-features/
• Parsing JSON in Rust
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/01/18/parsing-json-rust
• A Guide to Rust ORMs in 2024
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/01/16/best-orm-rust
• Breaking Changes Are Broken
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/breaking-changes-are-broken-semver/
• Continuous Integration
  https://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html
• Top 15 Proven Patterns for Resilient Software Architecture Design
  https://medium.com/@deepak.gupta79/top-15-proven-patterns-for-resilient-software-architecture-design-5849b5053b1f
• A developer’s second brain: Reducing complexity through partnership with AI
  https://github.blog/2024-01-17-a-developers-second-brain-reducing-complexity-through-partnership-with-ai/
• Sampling for Text Generation
  https://huyenchip.com/2024/01/16/sampling.html
• Vision-language models that can handle multi-image inputs
  https://www.amazon.science/blog/vision-language-models-that-can-handle-multi-image-inputs
• Palette Meta Store Journey
  https://www.uber.com/blog/palette-meta-store-journey/
• U.S. Government Uses for Artificial Intelligence
  https://www.investopedia.com/artificial-intelligence-in-us-government-8406703

Videos

• Java’s Plans for 2024 – Inside Java Newscast #61
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL7d-gGrms8
• Effective Developer Workflows With Quarkus
  https://blog.sebastian-daschner.com/entries/effective-developer-workflows-quarkus
• Spring Tips: DataSources
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt_cUtb8LnQ
• Why Rust will keep growing in 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi3G8OUwfHw
• Beginner Rust Tutorial: Word Counting – Learning Rust Creatively
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMeX2x-ZCoQ
• const fn: Pure Functions in Rust
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voRBS0r4EyI
• Catching Commits to Secure Infrastructure as Code • Rosemary Wang • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j3h2IqkmIA
• Amazon DynamoDB Distributed Transactions at Scale
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/dynamodb-transactions/
• The AI Revolution: Autonomous Vehicles, AI Biases, and Future Trends with Jérémy Cohen
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YIeBhHbwNc

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News

• Java News Roundup: Spring Shell, Micronaut, JReleaser, JobRunr
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/01/java-news-roundup-jan01-2024/

Articles

• JEP 447: Refining Java Constructors for Enhanced Flexibility
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/01/java-constructors-enhancement/
• Journey of a Java Champion: Bert Jan Schrijver’s Path to Mastery and Community Leadership
  https://foojay.io/today/journey-of-a-java-champion-bert-jan-schrijvers-path-to-mastery-and-community-leadership/
• Uber: GC Tuning for Improved Presto Reliability
  https://www.uber.com/blog/uber-gc-tuning-for-improved-presto-reliability/
• Getting Started with Tracing in Rust
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/01/09/getting-started-tracing-rust
• Evolution of Developer Productivity at Square – Part One
  https://developer.squareup.com/blog/evolution-of-developer-productivity-at-square-part-one/
• lastminute.com Improves Search Scalability Using Microservices with RabbitMQ and Redis
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/01/lastminute-search-rabbitmq-redis/
• Orchestrating Resilience Building Modern Asynchronous Systems
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/orchestrating-resilience-modern-asynchronous-systems/
• TaskWeaver: A code-first agent framework for efficient data analytics and domain adaptation
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/taskweaver-a-code-first-agent-framework-for-efficient-data-analytics-and-domain-adaptation/
• Discoveries in weeks, not years: How AI and high-performance computing are speeding up scientific discovery
  https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/how-ai-and-hpc-are-speeding-up-scientific-discovery/

Videos

• Virtual Threads for Lightweight Concurrency and Other JVM Enhancements
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/virtual-threads-lightweight-concurrency/
• Rust’s most wanted feature just arrived!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzoWLSZ-scQ
• When your program is a compiler, isEven is odd
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY30oCC4j5k
• Retro-futuristic clock | Coding project for beginners using Rustlang & Bevy
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhI69fodWUY
• Setting Goals as a Staff+ Engineer
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/setting-goals-staff-plus/
• Conscious Software Design
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrXZQLo1EOw
• Accelerating Event-driven Architecture with Domain-driven Design • Brian Zambrano • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG4UOoEJvBc
• Reliable Architectures through Observability
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/reliable-architectures-observability/
• What is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) – Augmenting LLMs with a Memory
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAfrShnpVIk

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News

• Java News Roundup: GlassFish 8.0-M1, 2023 Highlights from Spring, BellSoft and WildFly
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/01/java-news-roundup-dec25-2023/

Articles

• JWebserver – Launch the Java Simple Web Server
  https://dev.java/learn/jvm/tool/jwebserver/
• The One Billion Row Challenge
  https://www.morling.dev/blog/one-billion-row-challenge/
• Architecting with Java Persistence: Patterns and Strategies
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecting-java-persistence-patterns-and-strategies/
• What is Rust and Why Should You Use It?
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/01/04/what-is-rust
• A few fast solutions for Advent of Code 2023
  https://jordankaye.dev/posts/aoc-2023/
• Waymo Publishes Report Showing Lower Crash Rates Than Human Drivers
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/01/waymo-safety-report/
• What’s next for AI in 2024
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/01/04/1086046/whats-next-for-ai-in-2024/

Videos

• Spring Office Hours: S3E1 – Spring Into The New Year
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zUaIiI47nc
• Spring Tips: Spring’s Application Event Subsystem
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YdjBWSGtbE
• A Year of Diagnosing Pediatric Cancer with Event Driven Architecture • Grant Lammi • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpVPgGH4LfE
• Evolving Your Containerized REST Based Microservices to Adapt to EDA • Dhiraj Mahapatro • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjZdKa5I-Us
• A Neural Network Primer
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_56bfCu02ZE
• Supervised & Unsupervised Machine Learning
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvODQqb3D_8
• Building Practical, Cost-Efficient GenAI Solutions Using Serverless • Veda Raman • GOTO 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X-YHHU7p20

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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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