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Java Creator James Gosling Interview

Introduction

James Gosling, often referred to as "Dr. Java", is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language. He did the original design of Java and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine. Our DevRel, Grigory Petrov, had the opportunity to interview James, and we have included the entire transcript below. Hope you enjoy it!

The Interview

Grigory: As software developers and software consultants, we're trying to organize a community in Russia: Python, Ruby, Java, and Go communities. And we want to help our fellow developers by conducting interviews that highlight essential questions for our industry. I think that your experience and your work on Java can help developers to become better. So let's try to help them!

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7 Ways To Ensure Employees Are Really Working When Working From Home

It’s one of the biggest hurdles to having remote workers. How do you know they’re doing the work? After all, when they are in the office you can see what an employee is doing. It is far easier to monitor their work and manage expectations.

But with so many companies forced to implement remote working measures, what can be done to ensure remote workers stay productive? And more than that, because while productivity sounds nice, what’s important is that they are actually carrying out the work on time and to specification.

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How to Train a Joint Entities and Relation Extraction Classifier Using BERT Transformer With spaCy 3

Train a Joint Entities and Relation Extraction Classifier

Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash.

Introduction

One of the most useful applications of NLP technology is information extraction from unstructured texts — contracts, financial documents, healthcare records, etc. — that enables automatic data query to derive new insights. Traditionally, named entity recognition has been widely used to identify entities inside a text and store the data for advanced querying and filtering. However, if we want to semantically understand the unstructured text, NER alone is not enough since we don't know how the entities are related to each other. Performing joint NER and relation extraction will open up a whole new way of information retrieval through knowledge graphs where you can navigate across different nodes to discover hidden relationships. Therefore, performing these tasks jointly will be beneficial.

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Scala, MongoDB, and Cats-Effect

MongoDB is an open-source database that uses a document-oriented data model and a non-structured query language. It is one of the most powerful NoSQL databases around today. In comparison to traditional SQL databases, MongoDB does not use the usual rows and columns to model its data; instead, it uses a BSON (Binary JSON) format to save the data (documents) in collections, where the basic unit of data consists of a set of key-value pairs.

For Scala, there are several MongoDB clients available, the most popular of which are the official MongoDB Scala Driver and ReactiveMongo.

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Extend Your Golang App With Embedded WebAssembly Functions in WasmEdge

The Go programming language (Golang) is an easy-to-use and secure programming language that compiles into high-performance native applications. It is a very popular choice for writing software infrastructure and frameworks.

A key requirement for software frameworks is the ability for users to extend and customize it with their own code. However, in Golang, adding user-defined functions or extensions to an existing app is not easy. Oftentimes, you need to integrate at the source code level by combining the source code for the framework and the user-defined functions. While it is possible to create dynamic shared modules with Golang, support for shared modules is lacking on ARM-based systems, which are widely used in edge computing. Furthermore, neither source code integration nor dynamic modules provide isolation for the user-defined functions. The extension could interfere with the framework itself, and it is unsafe to integrate user-defined functions from several parties. As the language for "cloud-native", Golang needs a better extension mechanism.