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April 14Wednesday
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GatorJUG - On Java in General
April 14, 2010 from 6pm to 9pm – The Civic Media Center We'll meet and talk about Java in general this meeting, unless someone comes up with a specific presentation. What's new in Java? What's new for you? We can talk about any aspect of Java you'd like,… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
May 12Wednesday
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GatorJUG - On Java in General
May 12, 2010 from 6pm to 9pm – The Civic Media Center This month we will be a continuation of last month’s Java in General discussion. For those of you who did not attend last month we started with the very first thing you must do in Java and that is Do… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
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Java News Roundup: JDK26-RC2, Payara Platform, Hibernate, Quarkus, Apache Camel, Jakarta EE 12
This week's Java roundup for February 16th, 2026, features news highlighting: the second release candidate of JDK 26; an update on Jakarta EE 12; the February 2026 edition of Payara Platform; a point release of Apache Camel; and maintenance releases of Hibernate Search and Quarkus.
By Michael RedlichUforwarder: Uber’s Scalable Kafka Consumer Proxy for Efficient Event-Driven Microservices
Uber has open-sourced uForwarder, a push-based Kafka consumer proxy built to handle trillions of messages and multiple petabytes of data daily. The system introduces context-aware routing, head-of-line blocking mitigation, adaptive auto-rebalancing, and partition-level delay processing to improve scalability, workload isolation, and hardware efficiency in large-scale event-driven microservices.
By Leela KumiliTSSLint 3.0: Final Major Release with Reduced Dependencies
TSSLint 3, the lightweight TypeScript linting tool by Johnson Chu, enhances performance with a reduced dependencies and improved migration paths from legacy linters. As a spiritual successor to TSLint, it offers near-instant diagnostics and fixes, leveraging native Node support for .ts imports. Enhanced developer tooling and a new TSL compatibility layer simplify linting in large-scale projects.
By Daniel CurtisPodcast: Software Evolution with Microservices and LLMs: A Conversation with Chris Richardson
In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with Chris Richardson about using microservices to modernize software applications and the use of artificial intelligence in software architecture. We first discussed the problems of monolithic enterprise software and how to use microservices to evolve them to enable fast flow - the ability to achieve rapid software delivery.
By Chris RichardsonArticle: Building a Least-Privilege AI Agent Gateway for Infrastructure Automation with MCP, OPA, and Ephemeral Runners
This article presents a least-privilege AI Agent Gateway that places clear controls between AI agents and infrastructure. Agents do not access infrastructure APIs directly. Instead, every request is validated, authorized using policy as code with Open Policy Agent (OPA), and executed in short-lived, isolated environments, with built-in observability using OpenTelemetry.
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