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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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Tiger Data, the company behind TimescaleDB, has launched Agentic Postgres, a Postgres-based database designed for both AI agents and developers. It extends Postgres with fast forking, an MCP server, native BM25 and vector search, and includes a CLI for terminal access.
By Sergio De Simone
OpenAI recently released upgrades to their GPT-5 model. GPT‑5.1 Instant, the default chat model, has improvements to instruction following. GPT‑5.1 Thinking, the reasoning model, is faster and gives more understandable responses. GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max, the coding model, is trained to use compaction to perform long-running tasks.
By Anthony Alford
Replit has introduced Replit AI Integrations, a feature that lets users select third-party models directly inside the IDE and automatically generate the code needed to run inference.
By Daniel Dominguez
AWS has launched Database Savings Plans, allowing customers to cut database costs by up to 35% with a commitment to consistent usage. This feature enhances flexibility during migrations and expansions across AWS Regions. Positive community feedback highlights its potential impact on cost efficiency and future direction for database commitments.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Overload protection is often overlooked in platform engineering, leaving teams to create inconsistent, fragile fixes. Centralized rate limits, quotas, adaptive controls, and clear visibility give services predictable ways to handle traffic spikes, reduce reliability debt, and prevent cascading failures across systems.
By Gaurav Nanda, Tapan Manaktala
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