GenAI and LLMs development, trends and implications (7. - 13.10.2024)

Adoption:

• Bursting the Gen AI hype bubble - once and for all
• Basics - 10 critical AI concepts explained in 5 minutes
• Generally AI - Fantastic algorithms and where to find them
• Seven factors driving AI adoption
• Exploring the GenAI technology stack and how it all fits together
• Meta unveils Movie Gen, a new AI model for video generation

LLMs generally:

• Chain of Thought prompting for LLMs
• Operationalize a scalable AI with LLMOps principles and best practices
• Prompt Caching in LLMs: Intuition - how caching works in attention-based models
• Improving model quality without building larger models
• PayPal adds GenAI support with LLMs to its Cosmos.AI MLOps platform
• Fine-tuning Llama 3.2 for performance on targeted domains

New models and functionality:

• OpenAI Developer Day 2024 (SF) announces real-time API, vision fine-tuning, and more
• Meta releases Llama 3.2 with vision, voice, and open customizable models
• Claude AI - unboxing Anthropic’s LLM-based AI assistant, artifacts & use cases
• A Walkthrough of Nvidia’s latest multi-modal LLM family

AI agents:

• All about AI agents -  autonomy, reasoning, alignment, and more

AI-enhanced software development:

• Test-Driven Generation - adopting TDD with GenAI

Enhancing applications with GenAI:

• Latest innovations in recommendation systems with LLMs
• DocAI - chatting with AI and asking questions in the context of your documents

IT links (7. - 13.10.2024)

• Reducing memory footprint with Java Object Layout (JOL) library
• Object equality in Java - a degree of equality and fuzzy comparison

       Java Streams:

• Exploring findAny() and anyMatch()
• Effective techniques for optimizing Java Streams - scenarios of when to use Streams, and when to avoid them

• Mocking @Value in Spring Boot test
• Test-Driven Generation - adopting TDD with GenAI

• Multiple ways how to change field value before Update and Insert in Hibernate

• Secret management and rotation in AWS
• Microservice proliferation - too many microservices - the pitfalls associated with the excessive creation of microservices, insights on their causes, implications, and potential strategies for mitigation

• Data modeling and techniques and best practices for optimization in Snowflake
• Data Teams Survey - lag in DataOps and value delivered
• Setting up a Data Mesh organization
• Scaling Uber’s batch data platform - a journey to the cloud with Data Mesh principles

GenAI and LLMs development, trends and implications (30.9. - 6.10.2024)

Adoption:

• Generative AI will require 80% of engineering workforce to upskill through 2027
• Demand is growing for robust computing - hyperscale data centers ignite Construction Surge
• Knowledge-as-a-service - the future of community business models
• Generally AI - generative AI and creativity
• When generative AI isn’t always the answer

LLMs generally:

• What to consider when adopting Large Language Models
• Choosing the architecture for your GenAI application
• Evaluating performance of LLM-based applications
• Do we really need more complex models?

AI agents:

• What makes a true AI agent? Rethinking the pursuit of autonomy
• The intersection of tool calling and reasoning in Generative AI

RAG:

• Chunking strategies - why, when, and how to chunk for enhanced RAG
• Improving RAG quality with knowledge graphs
• Stop guessing and measure your RAG system to drive real improvements
• Using HyDE technique for better LLM RAG retrieval
• Build a RAG-powered chatbot With Gemini, MyScaleDB

AI-enhanced software development:

• The AI-native developers who build software through prompt engineering
• Using Spring AI with LLMs to generate Java tests
• Legacy codebases modernization meets GenAI
• The state of AI completion in JetBrains IDEs - complete the un-completable
• PyCharm - prompting AI directly in the editor
• Comparison of AI coding assistants - Codeium versus Copilot

Enhancing applications with GenAI:

• Spring Petclinic - Implementing an AI assistant with Spring AI
• Supercharging your AI applications with Spring AI Advisors
• ChatClient Fluent API in Spring AI
• OpenAI releases stable version of .NET Library with GPT-4o Support

IT links (30.9. - 6.10.2024)

Java:

• Using Lombok library with JDK 23
• Asserting collection of JSON objects ignoring order

    Reminding basics - now Java regarding exceptions:

• What is exception propagation in Java? Understanding the mechanism and its practical implications
• Understanding the difference between errors and exceptions in Java

Other:

• Modular monoliths using Spring Modulith
• Balance trade-offs in Microservices Architecture

• The Instability-Abstractness-Relationship — An alternative view
• Martin Fowler reflects on refactoring - improving the design of existing code
• Introduction to code analysis tools in IntelliJ IDEA

• How to make technical debt your friend
• Agile primitives - ten core principles

• Stream processing in the serverless world
• 10 years of Kubernetes - its journey, impact, and future

AWS:

• Release of Amazon RDS for MySQL Zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift
• AWS is sunsetting more services, including AWS App Mesh and Amazon FSx File Gateway