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Past Events (418)
January 25Thursday
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Orlando Java User Group - Learn about Software Development Management and Staffing
January 25, 2018 from 6pm to 8pm – Canvs Winter Park Join us at the OrlandoJUG for a presentation about software development management and hiring. Aron Moskewicz is our guest speaker. This session is about how the software development life cycle is m… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: jug_meeting
January 12Friday
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JSpirit - Java Unconference — Spirits, Ski & Java
January 12, 2018 to January 16, 2018 – Lantenhammer Erlebnisdestillerie Spirits, Ski & Java from Jan 12th to 16th, 2018 jSpirit is a new Java unconference in the Bavarian alps. Starting in Winter 2018, we’re down for Spirits, Ski & JAVA. How does… Organized by https://jspirit.org/organizers-supporters/ | Type: unconference
November 30Thursday
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OrlandoJUG Tonight! - Let's talk about JavaOne!
November 30, 2017 from 6pm to 8pm – Canvs Winter Park Join us for this last minute look at the JavaOne that was. Ed Burns and Vernon Singleton, JavaOne veterans both, will share their experiences and some of their sessions in this informal last-minute… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: orlandojug, meeting
November 14Tuesday
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DevOxx Morocco
November 14, 2017 to November 16, 2017 – Technopark Last Year Best Of DevOxx Morocco Organized by Badr | Type: conference
October 25Wednesday
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Pentaho World
October 25, 2017 to October 27, 2017 – Rosen Shingle Creek, Orlando At the Rosen Shingle Creek, right here in Orlando. All about big data. "Join the biggest gathering of Pentaho experts, users, advocates, and thought-leaders to learn the best practices, use cases… Organized by Hitachi | Type: conference
October 7Saturday
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Florida PyCon
October 7, 2017 all day – Church Street Station Exchange Florida PyCon is Florida’s first and only regional Python language conference. We will have talks and workshops covering all things Python including three primary tracks: Web, Data Science, and Speak… Organized by Florida PyCon | Type: conference
October 1Sunday
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JavaOne
October 1, 2017 to October 5, 2017 – Moscone Convention Center Interested in going to Java One this year? Oracle has extended a special offer of $999 for new registrations of JavaOne. Here are the terms and conditions Offer expires Saturda… Organized by Oracle | Type: conference
September 7Thursday
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Girls Who Code (Winter Park, FL)
September 7, 2017 from 6pm to 8pm – Winter Park Public Library Girls in grades 6 - 12 are invited to this free and fun course introducing topics like artificial intelligence, graphics, game design, cryptography and mobile development. You’ll learn basic programm… Organized by Lisa Blue | Type: training
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Re:publica
September 7, 2017 to September 8, 2017 – Dublin and Thessaloniki re:publica is one of the largest and most exciting conferences about digital culture in the world. Since its foundation in 2007, it has grown from a cozy blogger meeting with 700 partic… Organized by https://re-publica.com | Type: conference
August 24Thursday
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OJUG - Groovy Programming with Adam Davis
August 24, 2017 from 6pm to 9pm – Canvs Winter Park Hello Orlando Juggies! Adam Davis will give a presentation on Groovy at the groovy new Canvs Co-working space in Winter Park Thursday 8/24. If you'd like to be a pizza sponsor an… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: orlando, jug, meeting
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Notes
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InfoQ Reading List
From Camera to Cloud: Netflix’s Scalable Media Processing Pipeline
Netflix has detailed a cloud-based system for scaling camera file processing across global film and TV workflows. The pipeline handles ingest, validation, metadata extraction, and media transformation at scale using FilmLight API and distributed compute. It standardizes workflows across editorial, VFX, and color pipelines, improving consistency and reducing manual handling across productions.
By Leela KumiliPresentation: Write-Ahead Intent Log: A Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale
Vinay Chella and Akshat Goel discuss the challenges of running traditional CDC across heterogeneous databases during peak order traffic. They explain how Debezium hit limits under high load and share how they built Write-Ahead Intent Log (WAIL) - a custom architecture that utilizes a dumb producer proxy and a smart consumer pattern to cleanly separate the intent from the state payload.
By Vinay Chella, Akshat GoelHow Lightweight ADRs and Architectural Advice Forums Can Support Architectural Decisions
How we decide is at the core of architecture, and the architecture advice process is a way to decentralize architectural decisions. It needs to be supported by Architecture Decision Records because of the speed at which technology and systems move, and can be complemented by a weekly architecture advice forum.
By Ben LindersKy 2.0 Fetch API Wrapper with Revamped Hooks, Smarter Timeouts, and Built-In Schema Validation
Ky 2.0 is an open-source JavaScript HTTP client built on the Fetch API, featuring significant updates such as consolidated hook handling, enhanced timeout management, and improved URL processing. The release includes response validation through schema validation libraries and addresses migration from earlier versions. It aims to provide a lightweight alternative to axios.
By Daniel CurtisVS Code 1.123 Adds Two-Hour Extension Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks
VS Code 1.123 adds a two-hour delay before auto-updating extensions to newly published versions, creating a revocation window against supply chain attacks. The delay does not apply to trusted publishers like Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI. Similar cooldown mechanisms have now spread across pip, RubyGems, npm, pnpm, Yarn, and Bun.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
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