Newsletter – Week 52, 2018

December 31, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Microsoft Announces a Public Preview of Python Support for Azure Functions
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/12/azure-functions-python-support
Amazon Introduces AWS Cloud Map: “Service Discovery for Cloud Resources”
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/12/AWS-Cloud-MAP
Facebook Open-sources PyText for Faster Natural Language Processing Development
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/12/Facebook-PyText-OpenSource

Articles:

Book Review: Optimizing Java
https://www.infoq.com/articles/book-review-optimizing-java
Software Performance Predictions for 2019
https://dzone.com/articles/software-performance-predictions-for-2019
Principles of Data Analysis for Beginners
https://dzone.com/articles/write-to-data-analysis-beginners-a-general-data-an
Containers: Big opportunity or big distraction?
https://jaxenter.com/containers-big-opportunity-big-distraction-153224.html
How to Deal With Developers Who Appear to Be Relaxing
https://dzone.com/articles/how-to-deal-with-developers-that-tend-to-be-relaxe
The Beginner’s Guide to AI
https://dzone.com/articles/the-beginners-guide-to-artificial-intelligence
Women in Data Science at Uber: Moving the World With Data
https://eng.uber.com/women-in-data-science/
MIT Deep Learning
https://deeplearning.mit.edu/

Videos:

Improving the Design of Existing Software
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/design-app-improve
Securing Microservices in Hybrid Cloud
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/taap
The Right Amount of Trust for AI
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/artificial-intelligence-trust
Machine Learning Interpretability in the GDPR Era
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/machine-learning-gdpr
MIT AI: Poker and Game Theory (Tuomas Sandholm)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7bStIQovcY

Newsletter – Week 51, 2018

December 26, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

7 things to look out for in 2019: Changes for open source, data privacy, and the cloud
https://jaxenter.com/7-changes-2019-open-source-153080.html
Amazon Announces the Availability AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/12/aws-region-europe-stockholm

Articles:

Exception Handling in Java Streams
https://dzone.com/articles/exception-handling-in-java-streams
26 Items for Dissecting Java Local Variable Type Inference (Var Type)
https://dzone.com/articles/var-work-in-progress
Microservices Architecture on the Modern Stack of Java Technologies
https://dzone.com/articles/microservice-architecture-on-the-modern-stack-of-j
Netflix OSS and Spring Boot — Coming Full Circle
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/netflix-oss-and-spring-boot-coming-full-circle-4855947713a0
GitHub reflections: Was 2018 the year of open source?
https://jaxenter.com/open-source-2018-github-153988.html
8 Atlassian experts share their predictions for 2019
https://jaxenter.com/8-atlassian-experts-2019-microservices-153029.html
InfoQ’s 2018, and What We Expect to See in 2019
https://www.infoq.com/articles/infoq-2018-retrospective
What it’s like to interview at Pinterest
https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/what-its-like-to-interview-at-pinterest-e40f05a018f9
Bigtable Autoscaler: saving money and time using managed storage
https://labs.spotify.com/2018/12/18/bigtable-autoscaler-saving-money-and-time-using-managed-storage/
9 Skills to Transition Into AI Development
https://dzone.com/articles/9-skills-to-transition-into-ai-development

Videos:

Agile Architecture
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/agile-architecture-springone-2018
MIT AI: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs (Juergen Schmidhuber)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FIo6evmweo

Newsletter – Week 50, 2018

December 18, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

JDK 12 is in Rampdown Phase One
https://jaxenter.com/jdk-12-is-in-rampdown-phase-one-153269.html

Articles:

Student developers know more Java than what employers require, report shows
https://jaxenter.com/student-developers-know-java-153235.html
JVM Calendar: JDPR or Java Data Protection Recommendations
https://dzone.com/articles/jdpr-java-data-protection-recommendations
JVM Advent Calendar: Docker and the JVM
https://dzone.com/articles/jvm-advent-calendar-docker-and-the-jvm
JNoSQL and Jakarta EE
https://jaxenter.com/jnosql-jakarta-ee-152815.html
Java EE 8: A bird’s eye view
https://jaxenter.com/java-ee-8-birds-eye-view-152599.html
Lessons From the Birth of Microservices at Google
https://dzone.com/articles/lessons-from-the-birth-of-microservices-at-google
8 ways the tech world will change in 2019: DevOps, Kubernetes, open source fragmentation, and more
https://jaxenter.com/8-tech-predictions-devops-152993.html
8 reasons why DevOps gets more exciting in 2019
https://jaxenter.com/top-8-devops-predictions-2019-152914.html
Open Source at Uber: Meet Alex Sergeev, Horovod Project Lead
https://eng.uber.com/alex-sergeev-horovod/
These incredibly realistic fake faces show how algorithms can now mess with us
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612612/these-incredibly-real-fake-faces-show-how-algorithms-can-now-mess-with-us/

Videos:

Netflix Play API – An Evolutionary Architecture
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/netflix-play-api
MIT AI: Deep Reinforcement Learning (Pieter Abbeel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-mYLq6eZPY

Newsletter – Week 46, 2018

November 20, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Amazon announces Corretto, a *free*, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK with LTS
https://jaxenter.com/amazon-corretto-free-openjdk-lts-151872.html
Elasticsearch 6.5.0 brings support for JDK 11 and several new features
https://jaxenter.com/elasticsearch-6-5-jdk11-support-151932.html

Articles:

Java Magazine: Nov / Dec 2018
http://www.javamagazine.mozaicreader.com/NovemberDecember2018
JDK 12 Javadoc Tag for System Properties
https://dzone.com/articles/jdk-12-javadoc-tag-for-system-properties
StackOverFlowError: Causes & solutions
https://jaxenter.com/stackoverflowerror-causes-152027.html
“Java risks setbacks if it becomes controlled by one or two mega vendors”
https://jaxenter.com/red-hat-ibm-interview-tibco-152164.html
Amazon Corretto: Another No-Cost JDK
https://dzone.com/articles/amazon-corretto-another-no-cost-jdk
The Keys to Making Important Technical Decisions.
https://dzone.com/articles/10-years-of-important-technical-decisions-itds
Design Patterns for Microservice Architecture
https://dzone.com/articles/design-patterns-for-micro-service-architecture
Remodeling Cash App Payments
https://medium.com/square-corner-blog/remodeling-cash-app-payments-539e1f6c4276
23 Useful Elasticsearch Example Queries
https://dzone.com/articles/23-useful-elasticsearch-example-queries
How to deal with the seasonality of a market?
https://eng.lyft.com/how-to-deal-with-the-seasonality-of-a-market-584cc94d6b75
Experience in AI: Uber Hires Jan Pedersen
https://eng.uber.com/uber-hires-jan-pedersen/

Videos:

Spring Boot 2.0 Web Applications
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/webflux-boot-2
The New Kid on the Block: Spring Data JDBC
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/spring-data-jdbc
Big Data and Deep Learning: A Tale of Two Systems
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/uber-big-data-dl-ml

Newsletter – Week 44, 2018

November 7, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

DigitalOcean Announces Managed Databases
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/11/digitalocean-managed-databases

Articles:

IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat is a signal that we are entering the next phase of the cloud battle
https://jaxenter.com/red-hat-ibm-interview-ramasamy-151298.html
IBM and Red Hat should *not* both keep their JCP EC seats
https://jaxenter.com/red-hat-ibm-interview-wso2-151353.html
Red Hat being acquired by IBM proves that open source software company value has reached a new high water mark
https://jaxenter.com/red-hat-ibm-interview-gitlab-151400.html
JDK 12 patrol: Another JEP proposed to target JDK 12
https://jaxenter.com/jdk-12-patrol-jeps-149057.html
Java’s Future-Looking Projects: Panama, Loom, Amber, and Valhalla
https://dzone.com/articles/javas-future-looking-projects-panama-loom-amber-an
Detecting Memory Leaks From a JVM Heap Dump
https://dzone.com/articles/finding-java-memory-leaks-from-a-heap-dump
The Top 100 Java Libraries in 2018 – Based on 277,975 Source Files
https://blog.takipi.com/the-top-100-java-libraries-in-2018-based-on-277975-source-files/
15 Spring Core Annotation Examples
https://dzone.com/articles/15-spring-core-annotations-with-examples
Building Enterprise Performance Into a Graph Database
https://dzone.com/articles/building-enterprise-performance-into-a-graph-datab
Successful Migration to Microservices: Why, When, and How
https://dzone.com/articles/successful-migration-to-microservices-why-when-and
Peloton: Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler for Diverse Cluster Workloads
https://eng.uber.com/peloton/
Scaling Machine Learning at Uber with Michelangelo
https://eng.uber.com/scaling-michelangelo/

Videos:

Spring Framework 5.1 on JDK 8 & 11
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/spring-5-1-jdk-8-11
Accelerated Spark on Azure: Seamless and Scalable Hardware Offloads in the Cloud
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/spark-azure-hardware-acceleration
Defense in Depth: in Depth
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/defense-in-depth
Seven Strategies for Scaling Product Security
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/security-2018
Making Security Usable: Product Engineer Perspective
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/database-encryption-detection-tools

Newsletter – Week 39, 2018

October 2, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Java 11 is here!
https://jaxenter.com/java-11-is-generally-available-149954.html
Spring Framework 5.1 is here, with JDK 11 as its preferred long-term support
https://jaxenter.com/spring-framework-5-1-149968.html

Articles:

Manual on Java 11: Java experts share their best & worst experiences with Java 11
https://jaxenter.com/manual-java-11-tips-hacks-part-1-150023.html
Manual on Java 11: Does Java 11 tick all the right boxes?
https://jaxenter.com/manual-java-11-first-impression-part-2-150153.html
JavaFX 11 under the microscope: “Decoupling JavaFX into modules is the right thing to do”
https://jaxenter.com/javafx-11-interview-carl-dea-150006.html
Explore the New Java 10 “var” Type: An Introduction and Hands-on Tutorial
https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-10-var-type
Working With LocalDate, LocalTime, and LocalDateTime
https://dzone.com/articles/working-with-localdate-localtime-and-localdatetime
Take Unit Testing to the Next Level With JUnit 5
https://dzone.com/articles/take-unit-testing-to-the-next-level-with-junit-5
ETL vs. ELT: Differences Explained
https://dzone.com/articles/etl-vs-elt-differences-explained
Keeping Software Documentation in Shape
https://dzone.com/articles/keeping-software-documentation-in-shape
Project Management Techniques and Tools Made Simple
https://dzone.com/articles/project-management-techniques-and-tools-made-simpl
The eternal battle continues – What is the fastest growing programming language in 2018?
https://jaxenter.com/developer-trends-report-2018-150024.html
Architecture of Nautilus, the new Dropbox search engine
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/09/architecture-of-nautilus-the-new-dropbox-search-engine/
Data Science vs. AI vs. ML vs. Deep Learning
https://dzone.com/articles/data-science-vs-artificial-intelligence-vs-machine

Videos:

Is It SAFe to Scale? A Neutral Survey of the Lean-Agile Scaling Landscape
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/lean-agile-safe
How to Speak the Language of Application Architecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYGEcdPE2U

Newsletter – Week 37, 2018

September 18, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Proposed schedule: JDK 12 to be released March 19, 2019
https://jaxenter.com/proposed-schedule-jdk-12-march-2019-149420.html
JUnit 5.3 arrives with lots of updates in tow
https://jaxenter.com/junit-5-3-is-here-149301.html
Open Sourcing TonY: Native Support of TensorFlow on Hadoop
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2018/09/open-sourcing-tony–native-support-of-tensorflow-on-hadoop

Articles:

Oracle JDK builds vs. OpenJDK builds: Understanding the differences
https://jaxenter.com/oracle-jdk-builds-openjdk-builds-difference-149318.html
Java Community Leaders Clarify Platform Support Options
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/09/java-support-options-sept18
Recap: Java influencers weigh in on Java 11 and the state of the JDK
https://jaxenter.com/java-influencers-recap-149401.html
JDK 12 patrol: Packaging Tool joins the party
https://jaxenter.com/jdk-12-patrol-jeps-149057.html
Understanding Jakarta EE: “User feedback is of central importance so that Jakarta EE can go in the right direction”
https://jaxenter.com/understanding-jakarta-ee-christian-kaltepoth-149486.html
How to Achieve a Resilient Architecture
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/09/resilient-architectures-patterns
Challenges in Implementing Microservices
https://dzone.com/articles/challenges-in-implementing-microservices
Data Consistency in Microservices Architecture
https://dzone.com/articles/data-consistency-in-microservices-architecture
4 Practical Microservices Testing Strategies for Enterprises
https://dzone.com/articles/4-practical-microservices-testing-strategies-for-e
Serverless and the OWASP Top 10
https://dzone.com/articles/serverless-and-the-owasp-top-10
My Trip to JavaZone 2018
https://dzone.com/articles/my-trip-to-javazone-2018
A Pinterest Engineering guide to technical interviews
https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/a-pinterest-engineering-guide-to-technical-interviews-1c2471c2d139
Automated Fake Account Detection at LinkedIn
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2018/09/automated-fake-account-detection-at-linkedin
Artificial intelligence is often overhyped—and here’s why that’s dangerous
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612072/artificial-intelligence-is-often-overhypedand-heres-why-thats-dangerous/

Videos:

Unlearning: The Challenge of Change
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/change-unlearning
Your Project Behaves Like a Hurricane. Forecast It Like One
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/predictable-projects-continuous-forecasting
No Microservice Is an Island
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-infrastructure
Designing Events-First Microservices
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-events-first-design
2018 @Scale Conference Recap
https://code.fb.com/android/2018-scale-conference-recap/

Newsletter – Week 32, 2018

August 14, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Google Releases Spring Programming Model for Java on Cloud Platform
http://www.eweek.com/cloud/google-releases-spring-programming-model-for-java-on-cloud-platform

Articles:

JAX Magazine is out: It’s onwards and upwards for Java
https://jaxenter.com/jax-magazine-august-java-147748.html
JDK 12: Merging Collectors and the Challenge of Naming
https://dzone.com/articles/jdk-12-merging-collectors-and-the-challenge-of-nam
How to Avoid Deadlock in Java Threads
https://dzone.com/articles/how-to-avoid-deadlock-in-java-threads-1
New Version of ByteBuddy Fully Supports Java 11
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/08/byte-buddy-java11
Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline Using Jenkins
https://dzone.com/articles/building-a-continuous-delivery-pipeline-using-jenk
Be an Amazing Programmer With These 5 Easy Tips
https://dzone.com/articles/be-an-amazing-programmer-with-these-5-easy-tips
My favourite Software Development Quotes
https://www.e4developer.com/2018/08/10/my-favourite-software-development-quotes/
Software Architects and Autonomous Teams
https://dzone.com/articles/software-architects-and-autonomous-teams
30 Shared Principles for Discussing Software Architectures
https://dzone.com/articles/30-shared-principles-for-discussing-software-archi-1
50+ Examples of How Blockchains are Taking Over the World
https://medium.com/@matteozago/50-examples-of-how-blockchains-are-taking-over-the-world-4276bf488a4b
Learning Market Dynamics for Optimal Pricing
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/learning-market-dynamics-for-optimal-pricing-97cffbcc53e3
How artificial intelligence is shaping our future
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/artificial-intelligence-future-advances
Why AI researchers shouldn’t turn their backs on the military
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611852/why-ai-researchers-shouldnt-turn-their-backs-on-the-military/
Artificial intelligence: how much is hype and how much is reality?
https://www.networksasia.net/article/artificial-intelligence-how-much-hype-and-how-much-reality.1534074660
For AI success, developers should collaborate more efficiently with data scientists & engineers
https://jaxenter.com/ai-success-interview-databricks-148117.html

Videos:

What is a Service Mesh, and Do I Need One When Developing Microservices?
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/service-mesh-microservices
Deep learning anomalies with TensorFlow and Apache Spark
https://jaxenter.com/deep-learning-anomalies-with-tensorflow-and-apache-spark-147859.html

Newsletter – Week 21, 2018

May 28, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

JEP 329 and JEP 330 Proposed for JDK 11
https://dzone.com/articles/jep-329-and-jep-330-proposed-for-jdk-11
MySQL Version 8 Adds Document Store, Performance and Security Improvements
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/05/mysql8

Articles:

Java 9 Flow API vs. LMAX Disruptor
https://dzone.com/articles/java-9-flow-api-vs-lmax-disruptor
Ignoring Exceptions in Java
https://dzone.com/articles/ignore-exceptions-in-java
Micronaut: The future of microservices in the JVM
https://jaxenter.com/micronaut-future-microservices-jvm-144636.html
The Three Habits of Highly Effective Product People
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/05/three-habits-product-people

Videos:

Microservices: API Re-platforming @Expedia
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/expedia-monolith-microservices
Lambda Architectures: a Snapshot, a Stream, & a Bunch of Deltas
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/lambda-streams-delta
GOTO 2018 – Alexa, Let’s Build a Serverless Skill – Chris Munns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzI89gfsONk

Newsletter – Week 16, 2018

April 24, 2018 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News:

Oracle Code One: The new and improved JavaOne?!
https://jaxenter.com/oracle-code-one-new-improved-java-one-143660.html
No more public updates for Java 8 business users after January 2019 [Poll]
https://jaxenter.com/no-more-public-updates-java-8-143703.html
Java enthusiasts rejoice! Gradle 4.7 adds JDK 10 support
https://jaxenter.com/java-enthusiasts-rejoice-gradle-4-7-jdk-10-support-143649.html
Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/titus-the-netflix-container-management-platform-is-now-open-source-f868c9fb5436

Articles:

Proposed Schedule for JDK 11
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/04/proposed-schedule-for-jdk-11
JDK 11 and Proxies in a World Past sun.misc.Unsafe
https://dzone.com/articles/jdk-11-and-proxies-in-a-world-past-sunmiscunsafe
Java experts weigh in on the future of modular Java and reveal what’s on their Java 11 wish list
https://jaxenter.com/java-10-interview-series-part-5-143486.html
JVM Architecture 101: Get to Know Your Virtual Machine
https://blog.takipi.com/jvm-architecture-101-get-to-know-your-virtual-machine/
7 ways to capture Java heap dumps
https://jaxenter.com/7-ways-capture-java-heap-dumps-143693.html
Top 10 books on Java 9 and modularity: A must-read for every Java developer
https://jaxenter.com/top-10-books-on-java-9-modularity-143518.html
Spring Boot Actuator in Spring Boot 2.0
https://dzone.com/articles/spring-boot-actuator-in-spring-boot-20
5 Spring Framework Books Experienced Java Developers Should Read
https://dzone.com/articles/5-spring-framework-books-experienced-java-develope
Spring Boot 2 – an overview: Spring Data and Spring Security 5
https://jaxenter.com/spring-boot-2-spring-data-spring-security-5-142629.html
Software Design Principles DRY and KISS
https://dzone.com/articles/software-design-principles-dry-and-kiss
Meet GraalVM, Oracle’s polyglot virtual machine
https://jaxenter.com/meet-graalvm-universal-vm-polyglot-143574.html
12th State of Agile Report Published
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/04/state-of-agile-published

Videos:

Modular Java Development in Action
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/java9-modules
Top Ways to Deliver Your Spring Code to the Cloud
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/java-spring-azure

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