Celebrating its 20th year, Devnexus 2024 was held from April 9-11, 2024 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The event featured speakers from the Java community who delivered workshops and talks on tracks such as: Agile; Architecture; Artificial Intelligence; Cloud Technology; Core Java; Jakarta EE; Core Java; and Security. By Michael Redlich ..read more

At QCon London, Rachael Greaves, chief executive officer at Castle Systems, presented both the obligations and benefits of data minimisation as a mechanism to decrease the impact of data breaches. AI autoclassification and automatic decision-making tools help with the ever-increasing data volumes as long as ethical principles are considered, allowing decisions to be challenged. By Olimpiu Pop ..read more

Behind every InfoQ Dev Summit and QCon software development conference is a collective of distinguished senior software practitioners who carefully curate the topics based on the crucial trends and essential best practices you need to know about. These architects and leaders are charged with creating THE conference they would want to attend. By Artenisa Chatziou ..read more

In this InfoQ podcast, host Daniel Bryant sat down with speakers from the InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 24-25) and discussed the critical challenges and decisions developers are currently facing. Topics covered include platform engineering, the evolution of senior software developer roles into Staff-Plus positions, AI's impact on the SDLC, and the importance of security. By Eder Ignatowicz, Loiane Groner, David Grizzanti, Thiago Ghisi ..read more

Kate Sills discusses JavaScript libraries to use for cryptographic hashes, digital signatures and timestamping, the traditional archival process, and how cryptographic hashes can prevent tampering. By Kate Sills ..read more

Stability AI recently released Stable Video 3D (SV3D), an AI model that can generate 3D mesh object models from a single 2D image. SV3D is based on the Stable Video Diffusion model and produces state-of-the-art results on 3D object generation benchmarks. By Anthony Alford ..read more

AWS announced the availability of the Mistral Large Foundation Model on Amazon Bedrock during the recent AWS Paris Summit. This announcement comes days after the release of Mistral AI Models on Amazon Bedrock. By Daniel Dominguez ..read more

This week's Java roundup for April 15th, 2024 features news highlighting: the second milestone release of Jakarta EE 11; Stream Gathers (Second Preview) and Vector API (Eighth Incubator) targeted for JDK 23; the first release candidate of Spring Boot 3.3.0; the first alpha release of Hibernate 7.0.0; and the fifth milestone release of GlassFish 8.0.0. By Michael Redlich ..read more

Yelp reworked its data streaming architecture by employing Apache Beam and Apache Flink. The company replaced a fragmented set of data pipelines for streaming transactional data into its analytical systems, like Amazon Redshift and in-house data lake, using Apache data streaming projects to create a unified and flexible solution. By Rafal Gancarz ..read more

Chronon, Airbnb platform to create the infrastructure required to transform raw data into ML-ready features, is now open source. As Airbnb ML infrastructure engineer Varant Zanoyan explains, Chronon supports a variety of data sources and aims to provide low-latency streaming. By Sergio De Simone ..read more