It has been an exciting few weeks since my last newsletter. Java 17 launched with some exciting features. Apache Spark PR to add support for Scala 2.13 got merged. And Kafka 3 was released.
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Java 17 launched on September 14th, 2021. I am pretty excited about this release as it does include some features that I have used in other languages like Scala such as sealed classes and pattern matching using improved switch statements. This release is also LTS. Excited to use Java 17.
I’m pleased to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. Apache Kafka 3.0 is a major release in more ways than one. Apache
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