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August 28 2025, Newsletter no. 297 (this newsletter is available in html format at http://www.javaperformancetuning.com/news/news297.shtml )
As usual before a Java release, I'm listing all the new…
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ContinueHi Everyone,My publisher is running a free Amazon Kindle book promotion through Monday, August 25th, 2025. The book, “Eclipse Collections Categorically: Level up your programming game” can be obtained for $0 on Kindle on Amazon through the August 25th.…
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Vibe coding isn’t a formal technical term, but it’s become a slang or colloquial expression among programmers and tech communities—especially on social media and in creative coding circles.
What “vibe coding” usually means:
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Learning about artificial intelligence? You may find this interesting.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/you-can-now-download-the-source-code-that-sparked-the-ai-boom/
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Thanks Mike! What a blast from the past! That Red Hat swag! ;-). Jim
Thanks for the invite!
I didn't mean to make you feel bad, I know how busy you must be. It's just we could do more to promote this site. Does the twitter thingie work for you?
Thanks so much for the birthday wishes. I know it's so late getting back to you but I don't check this website very often.
Thanks for the invitation and the birthday wishes, Mike!
Thanks. I'm interested either way (either 10/25 or the rescheduled day).
Sure Mike. I can do that
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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Vercel has released Vercel Drains, a system for exporting observability data from its platform into external services. The feature unifies logs, distributed traces, web analytics events, and performance metrics into a single streaming mechanism.
By Daniel Dominguez
AWS has recently launched two new Mac instances (M4 and M4 Pro) built on Apple's latest M4 silicon. The new EC2 instances provide faster CPU performance, enhanced graphics, and increased memory for building iOS and macOS applications.
By Renato Losio
Agoda started utilizing ChatGPT to optimize SQL stored procedures (SP) as part of their CI/CD process. After introducing the automated LLM-assisted step, the company observed shortened stored procedure optimization times, which lightened the load on DB developers. Agora works on making ChatGPT more accessible for SP optimization outside of the CI/CD pipeline.
By Rafal Gancarz
Sophie Beaumont shares how the BBC's web design system supports over 10 brands and 25 engineering teams, handling 4.8 billion requests monthly. She explains their federated contribution model, which combines automation, mandatory ownership, and a collaborative gardening approach to create a scalable, maintainable, and highly accessible system.
By Sophie Beaumont
Anthropic recently published a postmortem revealing that three distinct infrastructure bugs intermittently degraded the output quality of its Claude models in recent weeks. While the company states it has now resolved those issues and is modifying its internal processes to prevent similar disruptions, the community highlights the challenges of running the service across three hardware platforms.
By Renato Losio
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