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May 28, 2015 from 6pm to 9pm – Canvs This month, we welcome Ken Krueger for a talk on Spring Boot. Ken was here last year and that's the picture of our group that night. Meeting Overview: This session will introduce Spring Boot, discus… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
June 25, 2015 from 6pm to 9pm – Canvs This month we'll meet again at Canvs. We had a fantastic time last month. Ken Krueger gave a great presentation on Spring Boot. Several new folks showed up. What a super venue. I wrote up a littl… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
September 24, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm – Canvs This month we'll have a presentation on the Google Web Toolkit! Google Web Toolkit (GWT), used by Google internally on some of their biggest applications, is growing and quite good. Learn about the… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
October 22, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm – Canvs Hello OrlandoJUG! This month I will be in San Francisco for Java One, Oracle's annual Java conference. Fortunately, Alex Buckles and Gregg Groves will be here to lead the meeting. Thanks, guys! Our t… Organized by Alex Buckles & Greg Groves | Type: meeting
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To improve the relevance of responses produced by Dropbox Dash, Dropbox engineers began using LLMs to augment human labelling, which plays a crucial role in identifying the documents that should be used to generate the responses. Their approach offers useful insights for any system built on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
By Sergio De Simone
AWS recently announced support for nested virtual machines within virtualized EC2 instances running KVM or Hyper-V. A long-awaited feature by the community, the new option enables use cases such as app emulation and hardware simulation on supported C8i, M8i, and R8i instances.
By Renato Losio
Cloudflare has extended hybrid post-quantum encryption to IPsec and WAN traffic, standardizing its SASE stack ahead of the NIST 2030 deadline. By adopting a streamlined ML-KEM key exchange, the move addresses long-standing "ciphersuite bloat" in quantum-resistant IPsec. The update aims to neutralize "harvest now, decrypt later" threats without requiring specialized hardware upgrades.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Despite widespread industry recommendations, a new ETH Zurich paper concludes that AGENTS.md files may often hinder AI coding agents. The researchers recommend omitting LLM-generated context files entirely and limiting human-written instructions to non-inferable details, such as highly specific tooling or custom build commands.
By Bruno Couriol
DoorDash has rebuilt its Dasher onboarding into a unified, modular platform to support global expansion. The new architecture uses reusable step modules, a centralized status map, and workflow orchestration to ensure consistent, localized onboarding experiences. This design reduces complexity, supports market-specific variations, and enables faster rollout to new countries.
By Leela Kumili
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