Softinio's Notes on Software Engineering - Issue #6

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Neovim and Telescope plugin to search the scaladex index - GitHub - softinio/scaladex.nvim: Neovim and Telescope plugin to search the scaladex index

🥁🥁🥁 We’re thrilled to announce that #scalacenter is now active on LinkedIn!

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Learn more about the latest release of Apache Spark™, version 3.2, including pandas API on Spark, Adaptive Query Execution, and ANSI mode and how you can begin using it through Databricks Runtime 10.0.

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of SynapseML (previously MMLSpark), an open-source library that simplifies the creation of massively scalable machine learning (ML) pipelines. Building production-ready distributed ML pipelines can be difficult, even for the most seasoned developer. Composing tools from different ecosystems often requires considerable “glue” code, and many frameworks aren’t designed with […]

I’ve been programming for the better part of forty years, in several dozen different languages. Those environments vary a lot, and many things have changed, but more than you might think has stayed…

JDK 17 has been out for a few months and it’s not just packed with new language features. The performance boost compared to older JDK versions is also really significant. It becomes especially clear when compared to the previous LTS releases, JDK 8 and JDK 11. Much of the improved performance comes from new features and optimizations in the JVM and in this post the focus will be on the improvements done in the area of garbage collection.