The Artifact

Link to GitHub for Sinan's book https://github.com/sinanuozdemir/quick-start-guide-to-llms

Sinan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sinan-ozdemir/

In this episode, I engage in a compelling conversation with Sinan Ozdemir, a seasoned expert in AI and LLMs who shares over a decade of experience. We navigate the fascinating progression of large language models (LLMs), discussing their deterministic and non-deterministic characteristics, the art of prompting, and the significance of model architecture and training data.

Our discussion also covers the latest strides in AI, including the creation of smaller and more efficient models capable of running on everyday devices. We delve into the intriguing world of AI benchmarks, the surprising performance of specialized models compared to industry giants like GPT-4, and the innovative approaches required for continued advancement.

Additionally, we highlight the ongoing tension between major corporations with extensive resources and smaller companies using open-source models to stay competitive. Join us to explore how the demand for personalized AI is influencing both research and corporate strategies.

SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?

Dan Vega is a Spring Developer Advocate at VMware Tanzu. Dan is also a prolific YouTube content creator, course creator, and has spoken in several conferences. He also hosts the Spring Office Hours show and podcast weekly.

Roland's LinkedIn profile:

Links: 

Get a Solace Cloud account:  

https://console.solace.cloud/login/new-account  

Spring Cloud Stream code lab: 

https://codelabs.solace.dev/codelabs/spring-cloud-stream-basics  

Jonathan's LinkedIn profile: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-schabowsky  

Event driven microservices are gaining a lot of traction these days due to their ability to decouple different systems while at the same time, keep interactions realtime and dynamic. In this episode of the Artifact, I talk to Jonathan Schabowsky, field CTO at Solace.   Solace enables enterprises to build powerful real time event driven applications with products like event brokers, event portals and a cloud platform for events. Jonathan has a long and rich experience working with Event Driven architectures, so I was super excited and grateful when he agreed to talk with me. This interview was actually recorded way back in early 2022, but due to various personal reasons (entirely my own fault), I haven't been able to publish this, or really any other Artifact episode. But it's finally here, and if you are even a little bit interested in event driven services, you have to watch or listen to this. I ask Jonathan about the benefits of event driven architectures, the benefits, drawbacks, the mental model versus request response, and so much more! I hope you enjoy this episode and learn as much from it as I did.

Madeline's website: http://madelinemann.com

Self Made Millenial YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SelfMadeMillennial 

In this episode of The Artifact, I talk to Madeline Mann, who is a career and job search coach. She is the creator of the Self Made Millenial. She has a coaching program and a Youtube channel with some amazing content with a lot of value. 

In this interview, I talk to Madeline about job search as it applies to software developers. Are there any things we should be doing differently? What is the importance of soft skills when searching for a job that requires you to code all the time? Do cover letters matter? How about referrals? Connections? In this interview, we cover all these topics and more. I hope you get as much value and learning as I did from this episode of the Artifact.

Microservice patterns website: http://microservices.io

Chris' consulting website: http://chrisrichardson.net 

It's really simple. When you think microservice patterns, you think Chris Richardson. Chris is a very popular and authoritative voice in the microservice space - he runs the website: microservices.io which is a go-to resource for anyone trying to architect microservices and needs to learn common patterns. He's also the author of the book Microservice patterns. So, you can guess what i talk to him about in this interview.  

At the end of the interview, Chris kindly agreed to speak with me another time to answer any of YOUR questions. So, wherever you are watching or listening to this episode, drop your questions on microservices and microservice patterns in the comments, and i'll pick the best ones to ask Chris in a follow up interview.   

Okay, without any further ado, here's my interview with Chris richardson in this episode of the Artifact.

JDK 18 is released, there's controversy over Google Cloud's price increase, a new look for MDN, a mysterious npm package that does nothing but has over 700 thousand downloads. And a walk through of the Java developer productivity report from JRebel. All this and more in this episode of the Artifact.

Java 18 is here

https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2022-March/006458.html

https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/the-arrival-of-java-18

MDN and MDN plus

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/03/a-new-year-a-new-mdn/

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/03/introducing-mdn-plus-make-mdn-your-own/

JavaOne 2022

https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/javaone-2022

Mystery empty npm package

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/empty-npm-package-has-over-700-000-downloads-heres-why/

Google cloud pricing updates

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/updates-to-google-clouds-infrastructure-pricing

JRebel developer productivity report

https://www.jrebel.com/resources/java-developer-productivity-report-2022

PicoCLI

https://picocli.info/

There's a point in every software engineers career, where they think "What's next?" Do they consider the role of an architect? Do they make a switch to a managerial role? Or deep dive into an individual contributor role? 

In this episode, I talk to Lee Atchison, who's not only an author and a video course trainer, he has been in the architect role for 20 years!  I pick his brain on questions that I've heard many people ask: What is a good next step for an experienced software engineer? How do they choose between a managerial role and an architect role? And if someone wants to be an architect, what do they have to do?   

All this and more in this episode of The Artifact.

https://leeatchison.com

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/software-architecture-from-developer-to-architect

Jakarta EE 10 is coming up. GitHub codespaces is becoming fast, like really fast! Dynamo DB turns 10. There is a library that I recommend for faking data. And what the heck is the difference between multicloud and poly cloud? Welcome to episode three of the artifact. This is a solo episode. We don't have a guest here that I can interview, but I have a lot of good stuff for you to share, including the "Learn from the news" section where we are not just going to report the news. We are also going to learn from it!

JakartaEE updates:

https://blogs.eclipse.org/post/tanja-obradovic/jakarta-ee-2021-review-and-community-update-january-2022

Codespaces update:

https://github.blog/2022-02-23-codespaces-largest-repositories-faster/

DynamoDB turns 10:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/happy-birthday-dynamodb/

Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise update:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-spring-cloud-enterprise-is-now-available-in-preview/

Library of the day (Data Faker):

https://www.datafaker.net/

Getting started in the software industry as a backend Java developer used to be about learning a programming language and a couple of frameworks to build applications. And you were all set. These days, it's no longer the case. With the rise of DevOps, and more importantly, the cloud, the learning journey that a new software developer has to go through has gotten more and more exansive. In this video, I talk to someone who has been teaching thousands of students for more than a decade. Ranga is the founder of in28minutes, You cannot be a backend Java developer using Udemy and not have seen at least one of his courses. He's a powerhouse course creator on Udemy and he's also a good friend. In this episode of the artifact, I talk to him about his journey into the software industry, teaching, and I ask some important questions on his current focus area of cloud technologies. 

This is the Artifact. A podcast that aims to help software developers grow, get better and be happier.