Newsletter – Week 04, 2025

Java 24 Performance Improvements & Deprecations – Inside Java Newscast #82
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTc16DAMTqg
Concerto for Java & AI – Building Production-Ready LLM Applications • Thomas Vitale • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la4kc57F6jU
Vector Databases Explained (vs traditional databases & alternatives)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TprMWe54kZE
Stanford Seminar – Responsible AI (h)as a Learning and Design Problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCOdmcFiT-8

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Newsletter – Week 48, 2024

December 1, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK and Jakarta EE 11 Updates, Payara Platform, Vert.x, Log4j, JobRunr
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/java-news-roundup-nov18-2024/
Spring News Roundup: Delivering GA Releases of Boot, Security, Auth Server, Integration, Modulith
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/spring-news-roundup-nov18-2024/
Announcing Rust 1.83.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/11/28/Rust-1.83.0.html
Solve Advent of Code 2024 Puzzles in Rust and Win Prizes
https://blog.jetbrains.com/rust/2024/11/29/solve-advent-of-code-2024-puzzles-in-rust-and-win-prizes/

Articles

Task Schedulers in Java: Modern Alternatives to Quartz Scheduler
https://foojay.io/today/task-schedulers-in-java-modern-alternatives-to-quartz-scheduler/
Working With OpenTelemetry Collector
https://www.baeldung.com/java-opentelemetry-collector
From Data to Insights: Segmenting Airbnb’s Supply
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/from-data-to-insights-segmenting-airbnbs-supply-c88aa2bb9399
Navigating Responsible AI in the FinTech Landscape
https://www.infoq.com/articles/responsible-ai-fintech/
7 examples of Gemini’s multimodal capabilities in action
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/7-examples-of-geminis-multimodal-capabilities-in-action/

Videos

Better Java Streams with Gatherers – JEP Cafe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqUhObgDd5Q
Java ConcurrentMap and ConcurrentHashMap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGXAs9fZYTc
The JUnit Crew Presents What’s New
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w93zN-zzLMA
Optimizing Java Applications on Kubernetes: Beyond the Basics
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/optimizing-java-app-kubernetes/
Building Next-Generation Applications with EDA • Eric Johnson • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2lh7pbgcMM
RAG vs. Long Context Models: Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation Dead?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN3vhWlzd4A

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Newsletter – Week 47, 2024

November 26, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Spring Framework 6.2, OpenJDK JEPs, Micronaut 4.7, Gradle 8.11
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/java-news-roundup-nov11-2024/
Spring Framework 6.2 and Spring Boot 3.4 Improve Containers, Actuators Ahead of New 2025 Generations
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/spring-6-2-spring-boot-3-4/
WildFly 34 Adds Preview of Jakarta EE 11 and Support for Jakarta Data
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/wildfly-34-jakarta-ee/
Spring Boot 3.4.0 available now
https://spring.io/blog/2024/11/21/spring-boot-3-4-0-available-now
This Week in Spring – November 19th, 2024
https://spring.io/blog/2024/11/19/this-week-in-spring-november-19th-2024

Articles

Reactive Real-Time Notifications with SSE, Spring Boot, and Redis Pub/Sub
https://www.infoq.com/articles/reactive-notification-system-server-sent-events/
Why Spring AI: The Seamless Path to Generative AI
https://spring.io/blog/2024/11/19/why-spring-ai
How to use the lazy initialization pattern with Rust 1.80
https://blog.logrocket.com/how-use-lazy-initialization-pattern-rust-1-80/
Verify the Safety of the Rust Standard Library
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/verify-the-safety-of-the-rust-standard-library/
Migrating to Shuttle
https://www.shuttle.dev/blog/2024/11/20/migrating-to-shuttle
Understanding Artificial Intelligence in Tax and Customs Administration
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/TNM/Issues/2024/11/21/Understanding-Artificial-Intelligence-in-Tax-and-Customs-Administration-555097
How to Be Systematic About Adopting AI at Your Company
https://hbr.org/2024/11/how-to-be-systematic-about-adopting-ai-at-your-company

Videos

Java 24 Stops Pinning Virtual Threads (Almost) – Inside Java Newscast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDk1c0ifoNo
Java – Security Monitoring with JDK tools and JFR Events
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbK2RBVtmfY
Rust live – The Box Smart pointer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esTddv6MOY4
Observability in an Asynchronous World • James Eastham • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDTHcxmoBbQ
Large Language Models explained briefly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPZh9BOjkQs
What is Indexing? Indexing Methods for Vector Retrieval
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NytKzh8avhw
Key Metrics and Evaluation Methods for RAG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRz0BWkuwHg
AI for Science with Sir Paul Nurse, Demis Hassabis, Jennifer Doudna, and John Jumper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQKmVhLIGcs

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Newsletter – Week 46, 2024

November 18, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Spring Cloud, Project Loom, Open Liberty, Groovy, Jakarta EE 11 Update
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/java-news-roundup-nov04-2024/
OpenJDK News Roundup: Instance Main Methods, Flexible Constructor Bodies, Module Import Declarations
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/jdk-news-roundup-nov04-2024/
Spring Framework 6.1.15 Available Now
https://spring.io/blog/2024/11/14/spring-framework-6-1-15-available-now
Spring Framework 6.2.0 Available Now
https://spring.io/blog/2024/11/14/spring-framework-6-2-0-available-now
Spring Framework CVE-2024-38828 published
https://spring.io/blog/2024/11/15/spring-framework-cve-2024-38828-published
This Week in Spring – November 12th, 2024
https://spring.io/blog/2024/11/12/this-week-in-spring-november-12th-2024
AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now more open
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03708-4

Articles

Why Java 8 is a Ticking Time Bomb Hiding Within Your Organization
https://foojay.io/today/why-java-8-is-a-ticking-time-bomb-hiding-within-your-organization/
Java 24 to Reduce Object Header Size and Save Memory
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/compact-headers-java24/
Building OpenJDK From Source On macOS
https://www.morling.dev/blog/building-openjdk-from-source-on-macos/
Rust needs an official specification
https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/140/rust-needs-an-official-specification
Perhaps Rust needs “defer”
https://gaultier.github.io/blog/perhaps_rust_needs_defer.html
How Meta built large-scale cryptographic monitoring
https://engineering.fb.com/2024/11/12/security/how-meta-built-large-scale-cryptographic-monitoring/
Redefining software engineering: The impact of generative AI
https://www.capgemini.com/insights/research-library/redefining-software-engineering-the-impact-of-generative-ai/
Artificial intelligence
https://v9.australiancurriculum.edu.au/teacher-resources/understand-this-curriculum-connection/artificial-intelligence
Generating zero-shot personalized portraits
https://research.google/blog/generating-zero-shot-personalized-portraits/
Airbnb’s AI-powered photo tour using Vision Transformer
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/airbnbs-ai-powered-photo-tour-using-vision-transformer-e470535f76d4
Transforming Location Retrieval at Airbnb: A Journey from Heuristics to Reinforcement Learning
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/transforming-location-retrieval-at-airbnb-a-journey-from-heuristics-to-reinforcement-learning-d33ffc4ddb8f
GraphRAG: Improving global search via dynamic community selection
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-improving-global-search-via-dynamic-community-selection/
Orca-AgentInstruct: Agentic flows can be effective synthetic-data generators
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/orca-agentinstruct-agentic-flows-can-be-effective-synthetic-data-generators/

Videos

Ask the Java Architects
https://inside.java/2024/11/14/devoxxbelgium-ask-architects/
Pattern Matching in Java – Past, Present, Future
https://inside.java/2024/11/11/devoxxbelgium-pattern-matching/
Build GraphQL Services with Spring Boot like Netflix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn-oLXQQklU
Rust 2024 Project Goals Update & Rust 1.80.1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ2XqNB-0Qg
Rust live – Smart Pointers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmWQUkqkxDs
Architecture isn’t Kubernetes | Diana Montalion (Mentrix Group)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=570rFXHXlDY
Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugvHCXCOmm4
The Ethics of AI Assistants with Iason Gabriel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaZc-as-soA

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Newsletter – Week 44, 2024

November 4, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Apache Pulsar 4.0, Jakarta EE 11, Open Liberty, Helidon, JHipster, Apache Camel
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/10/java-news-roundup-oct21-2024/
OpenJDK News Roundup: Stream Gatherers, Scoped Values, Generational Shenandoah, ZGC Non-Gen Mode
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/10/jdk-news-roundup-oct21-2024/
Spring News Roundup: Release Candidates for Spring Boot, Security, Auth Server, Modulith
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/10/spring-news-roundup-oct21-2024/

Articles

Let’s use OpenTelemetry with Spring
https://spring.io/blog/2024/10/28/lets-use-opentelemetry-with-spring
RestClient Support for OAuth2 in Spring Security 6.4
https://spring.io/blog/2024/10/28/restclient-support-for-oauth2-in-spring-security-6-4
Steve Klabnik and Herb Sutter Talk about Rust and C++
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/10/klabnik-sutter-on-cpp-rust/
Why You Shouldn’t Arc a HashMap in Rust
https://packetandpine.com/blog/arc-mutex-hashmap-rust/
Best Practices for Derive Macro Attributes in Rust
https://w-graj.net/posts/rust-derive-attribute-macros/
Securing Cell-Based Architecture in Modern Applications
https://www.infoq.com/articles/cell-based-architecture-application-security/
RAG-Powered Copilot Saves Uber 13,000 Engineering Hours
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/10/uber-genie-rag-copilot/
Generative AI, the American worker, and the future of work
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/generative-ai-the-american-worker-and-the-future-of-work/
A return to hand-written notes by learning to read & write
https://research.google/blog/a-return-to-hand-written-notes-by-learning-to-read-write/

Videos

Java Language Futures – Fall 2024 Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNPN5tvjzqA
Release Your (Java) Projects Like OpenJDK With Tip & Tail – Inside Java Newscast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozUE4YN_WhI
Are Virtual Threads Going to Make Reactive Programming Irrelevant?
https://inside.java/2024/10/28/javazone-virtual-threads/
All the Rust Programming Language features
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiIsdA2i_7o
How to publish a crate on Crates.io – Full Crash Rust Tutorial for Beginners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HlMJUYTsTQ
Rust Collections & Iterators Demystified
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiWATcjyUEI
Using slices in Rust is pretty powerful!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4o-kR2ixGc
gRPC Migration Automation at LinkedIn
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/grpc-restli/
Strategic Thinking for Staff+ Engineers
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/staff-strategic-thinking/
Manipulating the Machine: Prompt Injections and Countermeasures
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/prompt-injection-chatgpt/
Poetry4Shellz – Avoiding Limerick Based Exploitation and Safely Using AI in Your Apps
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/poetry4shellz/

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Newsletter – Week 43, 2024

October 28, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: WildFly 34, Stream Gatherers, Oracle CPU, Quarkiverse Release Process
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/10/java-news-roundup-oct14-2024/
Spring Boot 3.3.5 available now
https://spring.io/blog/2024/10/24/spring-boot-3-3-5-available-now
Spring Boot 3.2.11 available now
https://spring.io/blog/2024/10/24/spring-boot-3-2-11-available-now
OpenAI Releases Swarm, an Experimental Open-Source Framework for Multi-Agent Orchestration
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/10/openai-swarm-orchestration/

Articles

Jextract – The Native Library Binding Extraction Tool
https://dev.java/learn/jvm/tools/complementary/jextract/
Advancing AI by Accelerating Java on Parallel Architectures
https://inside.java/2024/10/23/java-and-ai/
Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL
https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-performance-outperforms/
When should I use String vs &str?
https://steveklabnik.com/writing/when-should-i-use-string-vs-str/
Using Kubernetes with Rust
https://www.shuttle.dev/blog/2024/10/22/using-kubernetes-with-rust
Using Polars in Rust for high-performance data analysis
https://blog.logrocket.com/using-polars-rust-high-performance-data-analysis/
I ❤️ JWTs (JSON Web Tokens)
https://kerkour.com/i-love-jwt
Taking Advantage of Cell-Based Architectures to Build Resilient and Fault-Tolerant Systems
https://www.infoq.com/articles/cell-based-architecture-resilient-fault-tolerant-systems/
4.2 Tbps of bad packets and a whole lot more: Cloudflare’s Q3 DDoS report
https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threat-report-for-2024-q3/
Streamlining Financial Precision: Uber’s Advanced Settlement Accounting System
https://www.uber.com/blog/ubers-advanced-settlement-accounting-system/
How We Generated Millions of Content Annotations
https://engineering.atspotify.com/2024/10/how-we-generated-millions-of-content-annotations/

Videos

Jextract – Java Treasures from Native Code Gems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW6t0KA27q8
A Sneak Peek at StableValue and SegmentMapper in Java
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fXHrK3yV9w
Developers — Contribute to FOSS Communities Now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPC_hr2t7Vo
Voxxed Days Thessaloniki 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o32OPyFld04&list=PLRsbF2sD7JVoOV7co10QVcCB2UooZ4vUT&pp=iAQB
Build a CLI Project – Improved version with Iterators – Full Crash Rust Tutorial for Beginners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI2JY52i6Ns
Add users and authentication to the Axum todo app
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opsxRHSphVU
You Keep Using That Word • Sam Newman • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IawEKBxjs14
What Is This OpenTelemetry Thing? • Martin Thwaites • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC1icupHlMs

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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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