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Karrot replaced its legacy recommendation system with a scalable architecture that leverages various AWS services. The company sought to address challenges related to tight coupling, limited scalability, and poor reliability in its previous solution, opting instead for a distributed, event-driven architecture built on top of scalable cloud services.
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Sharing your work as a software engineer inspires others, invites feedback, and fosters personal growth, Suhail Patel said at QCon London. Normalizing and owning incidents builds trust, and it supports understanding the complexities. AI enables automation but needs proper guidance, context, and security guardrails.
By Ben LindersThe article shares goals and strategies for scaling cloud and distributed applications, focusing on lessons learned from cloud migration at Chase.com at JP Morgan Chase. The discussion centers on three primary goals and the strategies addressing the goals, concluding how these approaches were achieved in practice. For those managing large-scale systems, these lessons provide valuable guidance!
By Durai Arasan
At the recent GitHub Universe 2025 developer conference, Arm unveiled the Cloud migration assistant custom agent, a tool designed to help developers automate, optimize, and accelerate the migration of their x86 cloud workflows to Arm infrastructure.
By Sergio De Simone
Andrea Peruffo explains the power of server-side WebAssembly, especially on the JVM. Using Red Hat's Chicory runtime, he details how to achieve secure sandboxing, fault isolation, and cross-architecture portability without foreign function interfaces. Learn through case studies how WebAssembly solves real-world enterprise problems, including achieving 10x - 40x speedups with AOT compilation.
By Andrea Peruffo
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there will be info for those of us who want to benefit from the talks. See you again at Canvs. I think OrlandoJUG will meet there again this month on the 4th Th. I want to take the SunRail if it runs that late.
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We are runnning preparation to JDayLviv 2015 - third annual conference devoted to java ecosystem.
So as usual we need speakers, sponsors and for sure attendees. If somebody would like to visit Ukraine and prepare some good talk - you are welcome - we will definitely provide you decent shelter, tasty food and cover your travel if it costs reasonably. If you would like to know more about our conference watch video 2013 2014 and photo or just drop me mail and I'll answer on your all questions.
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Hi Pavel and welcome to Codetown! I like your profile picture. Are you aware of the great vJug sessions coming up? One in about a week is a discussion of Josh Bloch's Effective Java. It's on the Safari Bookshelf! So, if you sign up for a free trial, you'll have just enough time to read the first 100 pages for the first meeting. All the best, Michael
PS - Here's the invitation from Simon:
May 26th Book Reading Club: "Effective Java" by Josh Bloch - Part 1
June 16th Book Reading Club: "Effective Java" by Josh Bloch - Part 2
July 7th Book Reading Club: "Effective Java" by Josh Bloch - Part 3
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