JDK 13

Last month, JDK 13 of Java SE platform was generally available on 17 Sep 2019 in the Java Community Process.

Top-5 Features of JDK 13, are

1. Dynamic CDS Archives - Class Data Sharing (CDS) allows the dynamic archiving of classes at the end of App execution
2. Uncommit Unused Memory - Enhance to return unused heap memory to the operating system
3. Reimplement the Legacy Socket API - Self explanatory
4. Switch Expressions - replacement of the keyword break in the switch expression by yield
5. Text Blocks - uses triple quotation marks as delimiters

JDK 13 official reference is available at https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk13-downloads-5672538.html

Stay tuned for next launch; JDK 14 will be released on March 17, 2020

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Role of future technology

This week's topic is about the research paper 'Imagine a new connected world' released in association with India Mobile Congress and COAI traces the next wave of growth in telecommunications and technology in India.

Eight major disruptive technologies are bracketed into four - Table stakes, Strategic, Maturing and Nascent. The Table stakes are about technologies that "receive high investment and generate a strong impact today.

They have reached an initial phase of business maturity but remain vigorously innovative and challenging to master". These technologies include data and analytics as well as cloud computing.

Strategic technologies, on the other hand, include Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). The strategic bucket is about those that receive significant investment today in search of strong impact tomorrow.

Standard Chartered ML

Even though the BFSI industry is one of the early adopters of emerging technology, it is also the most vulnerable sector.

Machine learning can generate meaningful insights, but if you feed data that doesn’t make any sense to the algorithm, that is exactly what you will get in return.

To tackle this issue, Standard Chartered Bank India implemented a solution using algorithms to scan structured and unstructured data from internal and external sources.

The solution deploys advanced analytics and visualization techniques to provide users intelligent and timely insights for better decision making.  It provides early identification of risk, a 360-degree access to internal and external data, credit-monitoring and also ensures compliance with regulatory guidelines