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How To Compile Multiple Files Using NetBeans 6.5Hello, I'm new to Java and have been using NetBeans 6.5 as my IDE. I have been learning how to create classes and have come to the point w… Started by Mark Hollinger |
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Facebook connect JSThis is more javascript. However, I have been playing around with facebook connect on a website I am coding for and it is kind of a cool fe… Started by Tim Stevesi |
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Courses translated to frenchI want courses of iphone's development in french. Started by Mara |
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May 27, 2009 Reply by Michael Levin |
Comparing Tomcat and GlassfishThere is a direct connection between the Web container technology used by developers and the performance and agility of applications. This… Started by Carol McDonald |
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JavaFXhttp://weblogs.java.net/blog/caroljmcdonald/archive/2008/12/javafx_restful.html JavaFX RESTful Pet Catalog Client: a JavaFX application th… Started by Carol McDonald |
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OJUG Mule Demo Source CodeHi All, What a great night! To those who are interested for the presentation slides and source code of my demo, you may download it here:… Started by Zemian Deng |
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Earlier this month, Iranian drone strikes damaged three AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, causing outages and disruptions to multiple services. The events, which affected multiple facilities within the same AWS region, sparked discussion in the community about how geopolitical conflict can directly impact global cloud infrastructure and multi-AZ deployments.
By Renato Losio
At QCon London 2026, Julian Wreford and Oli Lane from Gearset showcased how distributed tracing and SLOs solve asynchronous observability gaps. By shifting from queue-size metrics to latency-based alerts, the team improved incident response. Key technical takeaways included using OpenTelemetry trace state for async duration tracking and wide events to uncover hidden architectural waste.
By Mark Silvester
Prasanna Vijayanathan and Renzo Sanchez-Silva, both Engineers at Netflix, presented “Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale” at QCon London 2026, where they discussed the design and implementation of an end-to-end knowledge graph that models the Netflix user experience.
By Michael Redlich
Dynamic principal engineer at Netflix, Kasia Trapszo, expertly navigates the evolution of the company’s commerce architecture from a DVD rental service to a global streaming giant. Her insights on pragmatic adaptations to billing systems reveal invaluable lessons on agility, localization, and the complexity of modern payment landscapes.
By Daniel Curtis
At QCon London 2026, Lan Chu, AI Tech Lead at Rabobank, shared lessons from deploying a production AI search system used internally by more than 300 users across 10,000 documents. Her experience shows that most failures in RAG systems stem from indexing and retrieval, rather than the language model itself.
By Daniel Dominguez
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