Newsletter – Week 03, 2025

James Gosling on Java – Historical Oddities & Persistent Itches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg8xM0xxFa8
Reliable software: An interview with Jon Gjengset
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmDkKnWK9fY
Building a Domain Specific GenAI Chatbot with Serverless • Eric Johnson • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhxcZaiPsyo
Fine-Tuning LLMs for RAG: Boost Model Performance and Accuracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWTSImmqcvQ

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Newsletter – Week 51, 2024

December 23, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Spring Framework, WildFly, Hibernate, EclipseStore, Piranha Cloud
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/12/java-news-roundup-dec09-2024/
This Week in Spring – December 17th, 2024
https://spring.io/blog/2024/12/17/this-week-in-spring-december-17th-2024

Articles

The Foreign Function and Memory API
https://dev.java/learn/ffm/
Post-Quantum Cryptography in Java
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/12/java-post-quantum/
InfoQ Java Trends Report – December 2024
https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-trends-report-2024/
Read the Code: Using Drop Safely in Rust
https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/read-the-code/using-drop-safely-in-rust/
Choosing a hash function for 2030 and beyond: SHA2 vs SHA3 vs BLAKE3
https://kerkour.com/fast-secure-hash-function-sha256-sha512-sha3-blake3
PromptWizard: The future of prompt optimization through feedback-driven self-evolving prompts
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/promptwizard-the-future-of-prompt-optimization-through-feedback-driven-self-evolving-prompts/
State-of-the-art video and image generation with Veo 2 and Imagen 3
https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/video-image-generation-update-december-2024/

Videos

Valhalla – Java’s Epic Refactor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhn-JgZaBWo
Spring AI Full Course with Projects – Build Smarter Spring Boot Applications
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Crrhz0pm8s
Should you learn Rust in 2025?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJFWTS0ktXo
Meet the Rustaceans – Episode 1 – Ethan Brierley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU0jZhcE71o
All Machine Learning Beginner Mistakes explained in 17 Min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMc9StPVzOU
Project Astra: Exploring a Universal AI Assistant with Greg Wayne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctWfv4WUp2I

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Newsletter – Week 50, 2024

December 16, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Announcing Spring AI MCP: A Java SDK for the Model Context Protocol
https://spring.io/blog/2024/12/11/spring-ai-mcp-announcement
Introducing Spring AI Amazon Bedrock Nova Integration via Converse API
https://spring.io/blog/2024/12/10/spring-ai-amazon-bedrock-nova
This Week in Spring – December 10th, 2024
https://spring.io/blog/2024/12/10/this-week-in-spring-december-10th-2024
Java News Roundup: JDK 24 in Rampdown, JDK 25 Expert Group, Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile, Spring Cloud
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/12/java-news-roundup-dec02-2024/

Articles

Exploring Advanced JVM Options
https://www.baeldung.com/jvm-advanced-options
State of the Crates 2025
https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2024-12-state-of-the-crates/
Parsing MIDI messages in Rust
https://www.ntietz.com/blog/parsing-midi-rust/
Enabling AI to explain its predictions in plain language
https://news.mit.edu/2024/enabling-ai-explain-predictions-plain-language-1209
AI’s emissions are about to skyrocket even further
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/13/1108719/ais-emissions-are-about-to-skyrocket-even-further/
Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/google-gemini-ai-update-december-2024

Videos

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 49, 2024

December 8, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Last of the JEPs Targeted to JDK 24, Quarkus 3.17, Maven 4.0-RC1, Kotlin 2.1
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/12/java-news-roundup-nov25-2024/
This Week in Spring – December 3rd, 2024
https://spring.io/blog/2024/12/03/this-week-in-spring-december-3rd-2024
Launching the 2024 State of Rust Survey
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/12/05/annual-survey-2024-launch.html

Articles

Audio Multimodality: Expanding AI Interaction with Spring AI and OpenAI
https://spring.io/blog/2024/12/05/spring-ai-audio-modality
Advent of Rust 🦀 2024
https://www.rustfinity.com/advent-of-rust
Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/12/tech-predictions-for-2025-and-beyond.html
6 AI trends you’ll see more of in 2025
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/6-ai-trends-youll-see-more-of-in-2025/
Accelerating the Next Wave of Nuclear to Power AI Innovation
https://sustainability.atmeta.com/blog/2024/12/03/accelerating-the-next-wave-of-nuclear-to-power-ai-innovation/
A Revolution in How Robots Learn
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/02/a-revolution-in-how-robots-learn
GenCast predicts weather and the risks of extreme conditions with state-of-the-art accuracy
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gencast-predicts-weather-and-the-risks-of-extreme-conditions-with-sota-accuracy/
MarS: A unified financial market simulation engine in the era of generative foundation models
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/mars-a-unified-financial-market-simulation-engine-in-the-era-of-generative-foundation-models/

Videos

Java 24 Language & API Changes – Inside Java Newscast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yntTJjAS2YI
The Deref Trait in Rust – Full Crash Rust Tutorial for Beginners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g-UG0BC9A4
5 deadly Rust anti-patterns to avoid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWwTD2neodE
Evolving Your Architecture: Essential Steps and Tools for Modernization
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/architecture-modernization/
Complexity is the Gotcha of Event-driven Architecture • David Boyne • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjPdHVMNfb0
Stanford Seminar – Continual Safety Assurances for Learning-Enabled Robotic Systems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeJ4x1EyIFM
AI is not Designed for You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lxk9NMeWHg
Techniques for Optimizing Search in RAG Systems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSyDodhNE-A
The Balancing Act: AI & Regulation with Nicklas Lundblad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWuumlduTRg

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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 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 45, 2024

November 11, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11, GlassFish 8.0-M8, JReleaser 1.15, JHipster 8.7.3, Quarkus 3.16
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/java-news-roundup-oct28-2024/
Apache Tomcat 11.0 Delivers Support for Virtual Threads and Jakarta EE 11
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/tomcat-11/
OpenJDK News Roundup: Compact Object Headers, Synch Virtual Threads, Disable Security Manager
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/jdk-news-roundup-oct28-2024/
This Week in Spring – November 5th, 2024
https://spring.io/blog/2024/11/05/this-week-in-spring-november-5th-2024
gccrs: An alternative compiler for Rust
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/11/07/gccrs-an-alternative-compiler-for-rust.html
OpenAI Releases ChatGPT Search Feature
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/chatgpt-search-release/
Meta MobileLLM Advances LLM Design for On-Device Use Cases
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/meta-mobilellm/
Meta AI Introduces Thought Preference Optimization Enabling AI Models to Think before Responding
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/11/meta-ai-tpo/

Articles

How to organize errors in large Rust projects
https://kerkour.com/rust-organize-errors-large-projects
Supercharged Web Scraping with Rust & Firecrawl
https://www.shuttle.dev/blog/2024/11/07/web-scraping-rust-firecrawl
Building Trustworthy Software: The Power of Testing in Rust
https://tylerjw.dev/posts/20241106-building-trustworthy-software/
Async Rust is not safe with io_uring
https://tonbo.io/blog/async-rust-is-not-safe-with-io-uring

Videos

Postcards from the Peak of Complexity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u08hjp6PF-Q
ZGC Automatic Heap Sizing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcENUyuzMNM
Actix Web – The Rust Framework for Web Development – Hello World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5IP71BqO58
The Art of Embracing Failures with Serverless Architectures • Anahit Pogosova • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf0xo8JXxHg
Serverless Compute at the Heart of Your EDA • Julian Wood • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb2XRKp8udg
DynamoDB in an EDA World • Alex DeBrie • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJmFYUiLqk
Scaling EDA Workloads with Kubernetes, KEDA & Karpenter • Natasha Wright • GOTO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzxOG-RXDpc
The Importance of AI Governance & How Leadership Should Evaluate and Roll Out New AI Tools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiOoPmCjejI

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Newsletter – Week 42, 2024

October 20, 2024 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

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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