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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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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News

• Java News Roundup: Spring 6.2-M7, Project Loom, Payara Platform, Gradle 8.10, Helidon 4.1
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/08/java-news-roundup-aug12-2024/
• JDK 23 and JDK 24: What We Know So Far
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/08/java-23-so-far/

Articles

• Rust as My First Language
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/08/23/rust-as-my-first-language
• Building cross-platform GUI apps in Rust using egui
  https://blog.logrocket.com/building-cross-platform-gui-apps-rust-using-egui/
• A Fun and Easy Introduction to API Performance.
  https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/a-fun-and-easy-introduction-to-api-performance-b90f39a67feb
• Personal Data Classification
  https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/personal-data-classification-2d816d8ea516
• Shifting E2E Testing Left at Uber
  https://www.uber.com/blog/shifting-e2e-testing-left/
• The Turing Test and our shifting conceptions of intelligence
  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq9356
• Enhancing LinkedIn’s security posture management with AI-driven insights
  https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/security/enhancing-linkedins-security-posture-management-with-ai-driven-insights
• Generative AI hype is ending – and now the technology might actually become useful
  https://theconversation.com/generative-ai-hype-is-ending-and-now-the-technology-might-actually-become-useful-236940
• Unlocking 7B+ language models in your browser: A deep dive with Google AI Edge’s MediaPipe
  https://research.google/blog/unlocking-7b-language-models-in-your-browser-a-deep-dive-with-google-ai-edges-mediapipe/
• Andrew Ng’s new model lets you play around with solar geoengineering to see what would happen
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/23/1097292/andrew-ngs-new-model-lets-you-play-around-with-solar-geoengineering-to-see-what-would-happen/

Videos

• Valhalla – Where Are We?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF9l8fYfSnI
• An Opinionated Overview on Static Analysis for Java
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLaVxVuPd8
• Rethinking Java String Concatenation
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgX38gvMpjs
• Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFtjKbXKqbg

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News

• Java News Roundup: JDK 23 RC1, New HotSpot JEP, Hibernate and Tomcat Releases, GlassFish 8.0-M7
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/08/java-news-roundup-aug05-2024/
• JSpecify 1.0.0 and Nullability in Java
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/08/jspecify-java-nullability/
• This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.81
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2024/08/15/this-development-cycle-in-cargo-1.81.html

Articles

• Null-Restricted and Nullable Types for Java
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/08/null-restricted-java/
• WebAssembly, the Safer Alternative to Integrating Native Code in Java
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/sqlite-java-integration-webassembly/
• Programming vs Software Engineering (Rust vs Go)
  https://kerkour.com/programming-vs-software-engineering-rust-vs-go
• Sparkle: Standardizing Modular ETL at Uber
  https://www.uber.com/blog/sparkle-modular-etl/
• Practical tips for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/15/practical-tips-for-retrieval-augmented-generation-rag/
• Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Medicine
  https://serokell.io/blog/ai-in-healthcare
• Transformers in music recommendation
  https://research.google/blog/transformers-in-music-recommendation/

Videos

• Java in 2024 – #JVMLS keynote
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV4v7KXKQ-c
• Project Babylon – Code Reflection #JVMLS
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c0DB2kwF_Q
• Code Reflection in Action – Translating Java to SPIR-V #JVMLS
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQLBzrbkiKA
• Where is Rust being used?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42FhQWQ6SVA
• 5 Steps to Learn Rust Programming
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyoPFZ0Qjlw
• Spring Tips: Spring Security and Auth0.com
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfx0GooBn14
• Releasing a Rust Library Live – Casual Coding
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdeVq2KkdPI
• Bottom-up Architecture: Bridging the Architecture-Code Gap • Oliver Drotbohm • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkVIpwHcknE
• Building Software Better: API Lifecycle Management for Developers • Erik Wilde • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLYkvRbtCIk
• Shifting Gears: From Events to Event-Driven • Ryan Cormack • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dWJO31wpV8
• Thinking Like an Architect
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/architect-lessons/

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News

• Java News Roundup: Hazelcast 5.5, Projects Loom and Valhalla, Hibernate ORM and Validation
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/08/java-news-roundup-jul29-2024/
• Spring Boot 3.3 Boosts Performance, Security, and Observability
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/08/spring-boot-3-3/
• Rust 1.80 Adds Support for Lazy Statics, Extends Ranges in Patterns, and More
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/08/rust-1-80-lazy-globals/
• Announcing Rust 1.80.1
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/08/08/Rust-1.80.1.html
• Vaadin 24.4.0 Introduces Vaadin Copilot and a Unified Vaadin Platform
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/08/vaadin-24-4/

Articles

• Get Started With Allocation Profiling
  https://foojay.io/today/get-started-with-allocation-profiling/
• Netflix Adopts Virtual Threads: a Case Study on Performance and Pitfalls
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/08/netflix-performance-case-study/
• Panic! At The Async Runtime Shutdown
  https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2024-08-01-panic/
• tracing tokio resources
  https://hegdenu.net/posts/tracing-tokio-resources/
• How Quality Champions Foster Sustainable Software Quality Improvement at Swiss Post
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/quality-champions-software/

Videos

• Spring Tips: HTMX
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-rfPoXe5aE
• DARPA converts ALL C to Rust Programming
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz6vcWnBODI
• Designing for Scalability vs Performance
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDAf1D0HIOg
• Platform as a Product • William Rizzo • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTUePYLtsyE
• Sh… Fail Happens: Fail-aware Events Processing on AWS • Marcin Sodkiewicz • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFmpAp9REq0
• Scaling for Global Growth with Modern Cloud • David Anderson • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQjNtnL08I
• Adaptive Socio-Technical Systems with Architecture for Flow • Susanne Kaiser • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpNzR0fvxDw

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News

• Java News Roundup: WildFly 33, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Apache TomEE, LangChain4j, Micronaut
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/07/java-news-roundup-jul22-2024/
• Spring Security 6.3 – What’s New
  https://www.baeldung.com/spring-security-6-3

Articles

• Java 21 Virtual Threads – Dude, Where’s My Lock?
  https://netflixtechblog.com/java-21-virtual-threads-dude-wheres-my-lock-3052540e231d
• Why you should use Rust on the backend
  https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/07/31/rust-on-the-backend
• Artificial intelligence is now everyone’s business
  https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/artificial-intelligence-now-everyones-business
• Mapping the misuse of generative AI
  https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/mapping-the-misuse-of-generative-ai/

Videos

• How to Read a JDK Enhancement Proposal – Inside Java Newscast #74
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2vX4h1qhFM
• Java Generics
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKWw7J5MsyY
• Spring Tips: Spring Security method security with special guest Rob Winch
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYZHp5eqS2I
• Spring Office Hours: S3E27 – Getting Started with Ollama in Spring
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4P24jmogmM
• US Gov to convert all C to Rust
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anfCoIGP8HM
• 9 Rust Best Practices – Utils, Examples, Tests (Part 2/3)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRfDAZfo00o
• How to make a web crawler with Rust
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNtJ3njnEk8
• How Event Driven Architectures Go Wrong & How to Fix Them • Matthew Meckes • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dbyp3rL_4Q
• How to Make Smart Architecture Decisions when Building Gen AI Apps • Gillian Armstrong • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9r-80z0Qc

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News

• Java News Roundup: JDK 23 in Rampdown Phase Two, Graal Development Kit, Payara Platform, JSpecify
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/07/java-news-roundup-jul15-2024/
• JEP 481: Third Preview of Scoped Values API Brings Key Enhancements in JDK 23
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/07/jep-481-enhanced-scoped-values/
• Spring Ecosystem Delivers Numerous Milestone Releases
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/07/spring-releases-jul15-2024/
• Announcing Rust 1.80.0
  https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/07/25/Rust-1.80.0.html

Articles

• Understanding JVM Memory Layout with OpenJDK24’s New PrintMemoryMapAtExit VM Option
  https://foojay.io/today/understanding-jvm-memory-layout-with-openjdk24s-new-printmemorymapatexit-vm-option/
• Effective Java Logging
  https://foojay.io/today/effective-java-logging/
• Rust – Implementing WebSockets
  https://www.thespatula.io/rust/rust_websocket/
• Software Architecture in an AI World
  https://www.oreilly.com/radar/software-architecture-in-an-ai-world/
• Developers want more, more, more: the 2024 results from Stack Overflow’s Annual Developer Survey
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/07/24/developers-want-more-more-more-the-2024-results-from-stack-overflow-s-annual-developer-survey/
• Introducing Llama 3.1: Our most capable models to date
  https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3-1/
• The Italian Strategy for Artificial Intelligence 2024-2026
  https://www.agid.gov.it/en/news/the-italian-strategy-for-artificial-intelligence
• Chain of Thought Prompting in LLMs
  https://serokell.io/blog/chain-of-thought-prompting-llms
• Building A Generative AI Platform
  https://huyenchip.com/2024/07/25/genai-platform.html

Videos

• Modern Java in Action • Nicolai Parlog • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miUbs3mqPJE
• Spring Tips: Useful Annotation Processors
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAW2OpBKpvw
• Spring Office Hours: S3E26 – Pro Spring Boot 3
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Qyg8Uu-hs
• Rust’s second most complicated feature explained
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fwDwJodJrg
• Rust 1.80.0: Top 10 Most Interesting Things & Blog Highlights
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwV-T5yHJQw
• 20+ tips for writing Rust programs
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhySX0xUfKM
• 9 Rust Best Practices with Real Lib (part 1/3)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCrZleaIUO4
• Serverless Compute at the Heart of Your EDA • Julian Wood • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYvQv_MTMNs
• Optimizing Amazon EventBridge Pipes with Apache Kafka • Daniele Frasca & Roman Boiko • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KVVBOzEJdQ
• This video will change your mind about the AI hype
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB9yZenVLzg

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News

• Java News Roundup: Project Leyden Early-Access Builds, LangChain4j, JReleaser, Groovy
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/07/java-news-roundup-jul01-2024/
• Project Leyden Announces Early Access Build: 2-3x Start-up Improvements for Java Applications
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/07/project-leyden-ea-release/

Articles

• Java IDEs in 2024 – Survey Results
  https://www.baeldung.com/java-ides-in-2024
• Java Virtual Threads: A Case Study
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-virtual-threads-a-case-study/
• How to organize large Rust codebases
  https://kerkour.com/rust-how-to-organize-large-workspaces
• How to configure CPU cores to be used in a Tokio application with core_affinity
  https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/how-to-configure-cpu-cores-to-be-used-on-a-tokio-with-core–affinity/
• Towards safe and modern cryptography: Overview of the Rust ecosystem in 2024
  https://kerkour.com/rust-cryptography-2024
• How to Architect Software for a Greener Future
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/architect-software-for-greener-future/
• How Good Is ChatGPT at Coding, Really?
  https://spectrum.ieee.org/chatgpt-for-coding
• Reasoning skills of large language models are often overestimated
  https://news.mit.edu/2024/reasoning-skills-large-language-models-often-overestimated-0711
• A Complete Guide to AGI
  https://serokell.io/blog/agi-meaning
• Navigating the LLM Landscape: Uber’s Innovation with GenAI Gateway
  https://www.uber.com/blog/genai-gateway/

Videos

• Project Loom – Structured Concurrency
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mXGfsy7_Qo
• Spring Tips: Data Oriented Programming in Java 21+
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8na2qdHDuI
• My favorite Rust design pattern
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrf52BVaZM8
• Adopting Cloud Native EDAs – The Serverless Staircase • Ben Ellerby • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OGFpN8ghr4
• Nvidia’s Synthetic Data for Nemotron-4 340B
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8rdC_rmy6M

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News

• Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11-M4, MicroProfile, InfoQ Dev Summit, KCDC, Commonhaus Foundation
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/07/java-news-roundup-jun24-2024/
• Java in Education Initiative Aims to Empower the Next Generation of Developers
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/07/java-education-initiative/

Articles

• Introduction to Kafka Tiered Storage at Uber
  https://www.uber.com/blog/kafka-tiered-storage/
• The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/ai-revolution-not-monopolized/
• Artificial intelligence: a central bank’s view
  https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2024/html/ecb.sp240704_1~e348c05894.en.html
• Artificial intelligence
  https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/artificial-intelligence.html

Videos

• Java and AI? – Inside Java Newscast #72
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcutSV82Jfk
• Spring Tips: Testcontainers, Docker Compose, and Service Connections, oh my!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msb2b3BeeQo
• Operating EDA with Quality in Mind • Sheen Brisals & Sarah Hamilton • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZdQ4VHtxdU
• Complexity is the Gotcha of Event-driven Architecture • David Boyne • GOTO 2024
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLUvfIm9wnQ
• Best LLM? Qwen 2 LLM w/ author Junyang Lin
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp9C32JKm1I

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