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Past Events (418)
February 9Saturday
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gdG|Cameroon Innovative Open Ideas 2013
February 9, 2013 at 6pm to February 10, 2013 at 7pm – PRINCES DES GALLES Hello All, Google Developers Groups Douala and Yaounde have the great pleasure to announce you the next gdG|Cameroon Innovative Open Ideas 2013 Event in Cameroon from February 09th to 10th @ Douala… Organized by Google | Type: conference
February 5Tuesday
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VALENTINE'S TV
February 5, 2013 at 6pm to February 14, 2013 at 7pm – Brazzaville OpSoft a canadian startup at Brazzaville has launched a new way to help people tell how much they love each other during VALENTINE'S DAY or MONTH ... Right now until the 14th of Feb send your poetry… Organized by OpSoft Congo | Type: tell, how, much, you, love, her, or, him, them
January 31Thursday
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OrlandoJUG ::: Responsive Web Design Using Express.JS with Jackie Gleason
January 31, 2013 from 6pm to 9pm – DeVry University Greetings Java Enthusiasts! This month, we welcome the return of Jackie Gleason. Jackie will give a talk you're sure to enjoy. Abstract: It seems we are living in the day of the scripting framew… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
January 25Friday
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Startup Weekend (Jax, FL)
January 25, 2013 to January 27, 2013 – University Of N FL Student Union building Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur? The professional and personal challenges, the high and lows, the failures and the success? Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of activ… Organized by MJ Charmani and many others! | Type: conference
January 9Wednesday
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CANCELLED! GatorJUG : Gainesville Events - Grails Web Application in 30 minutes
January 9, 2013 from 6pm to 9pm – Santa Fe College Building S Room 317 Due to unforeseen events, tonight's meeting is cancelled. We'll meet again next month. Sorry about that! Hope no one was inconvenienced. Gainesville Events - Grails Web Application in 30 minutes. Pr… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: jug-meeting
December 18Tuesday
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Using Ruby in the Cloud (Melbourne, FL)
December 18, 2012 from 6pm to 7pm – TrepHub The Melbourne, FL Coders, Hackers and Founders will have a presentation on using Ruby in the Cloud with Heroku as the cloud target. Speaker is Keith Johnson. The meeting is near the water in Melbourn… Organized by Ahmed Reza and friends | Type: workshop
December 13Thursday
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HTML5 and CSS3 with Robert Boedigheimer (Orlando)
December 13, 2012 from 6:30pm to 9pm – Orlando City Hall The latest version of HTML is not completely standardized yet, but there are parts that are available in the latest version of browsers. There are many new elements, including those that provide mo… Organized by Orlando Dot Net User Group | Type: meetup
December 12Wednesday
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Build Guild
December 12, 2012 from 6pm to 9pm – The Other Bar Looking for a December informal gathering in Orlando that crosses tech borders? Here's one that sounds great. It's for anyone interested in web development and that includes PHP, Ruby, Python and Ja… Organized by The Build Guild ::: -Bill Spingarn (@bil2k) and Matt McGee (@Matthew_McGee) | Type: meetup
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TEDxSarasota
December 12, 2012 all day – Historic Asolo Theater at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art a Ignite at TEDx Sarasota Event Sarasota, FL – What does an aerospace engineer; hoop dancer; record producer; tech innovator; design thinker; challenged athlete; transformer of urban schools and an A… Organized by TEDxSarasota | Type: conference
December 7Friday
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Agile Lean Coffee (Orlando)
December 7, 2012 from 7:45pm to 9:30pm – Drunken Monkey A bit about our Agile Lean Coffee Orlando: everyone owns the gathering (though usually one of us makes sure we have supplies.) We seek any topics that are of interest to whoever is gathered. We prior… Organized by Mark Kilby and friends | Type: meetup
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InfoQ Reading List
Uber Adopts Amazon OpenSearch for Semantic Search to Better Capture User Intent
To improve search and recommendation user experiences, Uber migrated from Apache Lucene to Amazon OpenSearch to support large-scale vector search and better capture search intent. This transition introduced several infrastructure challenges, which Uber engineers addressed with targeted solutions.
By Sergio De SimoneBenchmarking Beyond the Application Layer: How Uber Evaluates Infrastructure Changes and Cloud Skus
Uber’s Ceilometer framework automates infrastructure performance benchmarking beyond applications. It standardizes testing across servers, workloads, and cloud SKUs, helping teams validate changes, identify regressions, and optimize resources. Future plans include AI integration, anomaly detection, and continuous validation.
By Leela KumiliPresentation: Changing Power Dynamics: What Senior Engineers Can Learn From Junior Engineers
Beth Anderson discusses the "power distance index" and its critical role in communication. Using the Korean Air Flight 801 tragedy as a case study, she explains the dangers of hierarchy-driven silence. She shares actionable frameworks for building the 4 stages of psychological safety, implementing reverse mentoring, and using PRs as tools for knowledge sharing rather than gatekeeping.
By Beth AndersonPodcast: Effective Mentorship and Remote Team Culture with Gilad Shoham
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Gilad Shoham about building effective mentorship relationships, leading fully distributed teams and the evolving role of developers in an AI-augmented future.
By Gilad ShohamBeyond Win Rates: How Spotify Quantifies Learning in Product Experiments
Spotify has introduced the Experiments with Learning (EwL) metric on top of its Confidence experimentation platform to measure how many tests deliver decision-ready insights, not just how many “win.” EwL captures both the quantity and quality of learning across product teams, helping them make faster, smarter product decisions at scale. The outcome must support one action: ship, abort, or iterate.
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