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May 22Tuesday
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AITP-NCFL May 2018 Presentation
May 22, 2018 from 6pm to 8pm – ITProTV The next presentation hosted by your local chapter of CompTIA-AITP will be held Tuesday evening, May 22, 2018, from 6 to 8 PM, at the ITProTV campus, 7525 NW 4th Blvd in Gainesville. Snacks and bever… Organized by Michael Lucas | Type: educational, presentation
February 25Tuesday
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AITP-NCFL February 2020 Presentation
February 25, 2020 from 6pm to 8pm – ITProTV Campus For our February 2020 meeting we are delighted to host Mike Rodrick of ITProTV as he presents "Are you ready for DaaS? Windows Virtual Desktop is ready for you!" The meeting will take place Tuesday,… Organized by Michael Lucas | Type: educational, presentation
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Google Pushes for gRPC Support in Model Context Protocol
Google Cloud is bridging a critical gap for enterprises by introducing a gRPC transport package for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enhancing integration for businesses already using gRPC. This game-changer reduces development friction, ensuring AI agents seamlessly connect with existing services while boosting performance and efficiency. Join the evolving landscape of AI integration!
By Steef-Jan WiggersLinkedIn Re-Architects Service Discovery: Replacing Zookeeper with Kafka and xDS at Scale
LinkedIn's engineering team successfully upgraded its legacy ZooKeeper service discovery platform to enhance scalability and performance. By leveraging Apache Kafka and the xDS protocol, the new architecture enables eventual consistency, supports multiple languages, and allows migration without downtime. Post-upgrade, latency vastly improved, facilitating hundreds of thousands of app instances.
By Patrick FarryPresentation: Beyond the Warehouse: Why BigQuery Alone Won’t Solve Your Data Problems
Sarah Usher discusses the architectural "breaking point" where warehouses like BigQuery struggle with latency and cost. She explains the necessity of a conceptual data lifecycle (Raw, Curated, Use Case) to regain control over lineage and innovation. She shares practical strategies to design a single source of truth that empowers both ML teams and analytics without bottlenecking scale.
By Sarah UsherJava Explores Carrier Classes to Extend Data-Oriented Programming Beyond Records
The OpenJDK Amber project has published a new design note proposing “carrier classes” and “carrier interfaces” to extend record-style data modeling to more Java types. The proposal preserves concise state descriptions, derived methods, and pattern matching, while relaxing structural constraints that limit records.
By A N M Bazlur RahmanVercel Introduces Skills.sh, an Open Ecosystem for Agent Commands
Vercel has released Skills.sh, an open-source tool designed to provide AI agents with a standardized way to execute reusable actions, or skills, through the command line.
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