After looking at Java in 2022 and 2023, it's time too look at what happened in 2024 as well as at the outlook for 2025. The recent Azul "State of Java" survey gave us extra impetus, and insights, so let's take a detailed look at today's Java landscape.

The name Silicon Valley is known to people who have never touched a computer. It is the legendary centre of electronics and computing excellence where big companies make large sums of money out of very small things indeed. Why did it all start at this particular location and who were the people that made it happen.

Python 3.14, which should really be called Pi-thon, has seen its fifth alpha release. It introduces a new interpreter that can be as much 30% faster, depending on what you are doing.

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JetBrains has added support for Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.5 and Haiku 3.5, OpenAI's o1, o1-mini, and o3-mini models to its AI-powered coding tool, AI Assistant, along with local LLM support via LM Studio, allowing users to connect AI chat to locally hosted models.

Memgraph has released an update to its graph database. The update aims to make it easier to build AI solutions powered by graph technology.

FerretDB has been updated to version 2.0, which the company says offers major improvements in performance, compatibility, support, and flexibility. In practical terms, the main change is a move to use Microsoft's DocumentDB PostgreSQL extension, which is behind a twenty times performance improvement

GitHub has announced new features for GitHub Copilot to streamline coding tasks. Copilot will now predict what a developer might be going to type next based on what they have already typed. The tool also gets the ability for its agents to implement changes across multiple files.

Amazon has announced the general availability of AWS Glue 5.0, with improved performance, enhanced security, and support for Amazon Sagemaker Unified Studio and Sagemaker Lakehouse.

The 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize has been awarded to Yoshua Bengio, Bill Dally, Geoffrey Hinton, John Hopfield, Jensen Huang, Yann LeCun, and Fei-Fei Li. The seven 2025 Laureates share the £500,000 prize for groundbreaking engineering innovation which is of global benefit to humanity.

Microsoft has announced it is 'retiring' Dev Home, and moving " a subset of its features" to new places. The closedown will happen in May 2025.

Code.org, in collaboration with Amazon has announced the launch of a new curriculum to teach AI coding that teaches students how AI works, how to create with it, and the societal considerations and ethical implications of an AI-driven world. It is targeted at students in grades 8 to 12, aged thirteen to eighteen.

The latest YugabyteDB preview release supports PostgreSQL 15 and represents a significant upgrade from the previous version.

Apple has announced that it is open sourcing Swift Build, an extensible build engine that provides a set of build rules for building Swift projects.

Author: Vlad Khononov
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date: October 2024
Pages: 320
ISBN: 978-0137353484
Audience: General
Rating: 4.5
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

This book looks in detail at coupling, the degree of interdependence between software modules, and how to use coupling to manage complexity and increase modularity.

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This book shows how to write practical, reusable Java code with straightforward tutorials and tips. This updated 9th edition starts from the basics of Java and looks at how to reuse existing code, create new objects, troubleshoot when things go wrong, and build working programs from the ground up. Dr. Barry Burd provides a step-by-step guide to getting started with Java, for beginners and experienced coders alike.

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This is an introductory course textbook on signals and systems with numerous examples and code snippets implemented in Python. Fatoş Tunay Yarman Vural and Emre Akbaş provide a complete introductory course in systems and signals, enabling readers to run Python programs for convolution, discrete time Fourier transforms and series, sampling, and interpolation for a wide range of functions. Readers are guided step-by-step through basic differential equations, basic linear algebra, and calculus to ensure full comprehension of the exercises.

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This book subtitled "Constructive Code Reviews" offers a different approach to delivering meaningful code reviews that goes beyond superficial checklists and tense, critical, conversations. Instead, Adrienne Braganza shows how to improve both applications and team dynamics. The book has comprehensive coverage of every part of the code review process, from choosing a system to keeping reviews manageable for everyone involved. With this mix of tools, processes, common sense, and compassion, Braganza says developers can run a highly effective review process from first commit to final deployment.

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