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June 14, 2009 at 6pm to June 17, 2009 at 5pm – http://communications1.sun.com/r/c/r?2.1.3J1.2U2.12n4%5fO.CJ0nQo..H.GDZG.2M0m.bW89MQ%5f%5fCJfQFKP0 This course provides students with the knowledge needed to use Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 and 6 (Java EE 5 and 6 platforms) best practices and patterns to design and architect robust enterpr… Organized by Sun | Type: sun, training, java, related
April 1, 2011 to April 3, 2011 – Four Points Studio City Hotel Note - this event may be cancelled. Please stay tuned for updates. Happy New Year!Registration is now open for the 2011 Greater Florida Software Symposium returning April 1-3 to Orlando!Here is y… Organized by Jay Zimmerman | Type: java, software, conference
August 31, 2011 to September 4, 2011 – Brazzaville, Congo Hi All,As some of you already know. The next edition of JCertif is coming.This year again the JCertif Conference will bring together developers from across Africa to learn, collaborate, and inspire e… Organized by Max Bonbhel | Type: java, community, conference
February 23, 2012 from 6pm to 8:30pm – Orlando James Ward from Heroku will be presenting at the Orlando Java User Group. Session Description: Heroku is a Polyglot Cloud Application Platform that makes it easy to deploy Java, Play! and Scala… Organized by James Ward | Type: orlando, java, user, group
May 14, 2014 from 6pm to 9pm – Santa Fe College Calling all Java lovers! Our May, 2014 meeting is coming up. Please RSVP, spread the word and invite a friend. Join us and keep your skills sharp. Network and find new projects and people for your ex… Organized by Dan Lackey | Type: java, user, group, meeting, gatorjug, codetown
September 17, 2014 from 6pm to 10pm – Santafe S building on the third floor. Monthly meeting. Come to talk and socialize. I don't know if we have a speaker but we'll have fun meeting and talking. Hope to see you there, Dan Organized by Dan Lackey | Type: monthly, meeting, gatorjug, java
May 20, 2017 from 9am to 5pm – Availity LLC Jacksonville Java User Group (JaxJUG) is proud and excited to be part of the 2017 Oracle sponsored Java Tour of US JUGs, by Java Experts and Champions from Brazil. The release date of Java 9 is less… Organized by Eyal Wirsansky | Type: java, symposium
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Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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Franka Passing discusses the architectural shift of Duolingo’s 500+ backend services to Kubernetes. She explains the move toward GitOps with Argo CD, the transition to IPv6-only pods, and the "cellular architecture" used to isolate environments. She shares "reports from the trenches" on managing developer trust, navigating AWS rate limits, and productionizing early adopter services.
By Franka Passing
How can you focus in a sea of results from a large regression test suite? This article describes a stochastic approach that relies on some degree of redundancy in your CI regression test set. This approach does not guarantee you will catch every bug every time, but it gives you your best bet of not missing the subtle signatures of all the bugs uncovered by your CI regression test suite runs.
By James Bornefelt WestfallIn this episode, Thomas Betts and Adi Polak talk about the need for context engineering when interacting with LLMs and designing agentic systems. Prompt engineering techniques work with a stateless approach, while context engineering allows AI systems to be stateful.
By Adi Polak
A 600-run benchmark by Ruby committer Yusuke Endoh tested Claude Code across 13 languages, implementing a simplified Git. Ruby, Python, and JavaScript were the fastest and cheapest, at $0.36- $0.39 per run. Statistically typed languages cost 1.4-2.6x more. Adding type checkers to dynamic languages imposed 1.6-3.2x slowdowns. Full dataset available on GitHub.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
This week's Java roundup for March 30th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of TornadoVM 4.0 and Google ADK for Java 1.0; first release candidates of Grails and Gradle; maintenance releases of Micronaut, Apache Tomcart and Apache Log4j; and an update on Jakarta EE 12.
By Michael Redlich
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