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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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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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Researchers at Microsoft, working in collaboration with Arizona State University, have introduced Magentic Marketplace, an open-source simulation environment designed to study how LLM-based agents behave in multi-agent economic systems. The platform addresses a growing need in AI research as autonomous agents gain capabilities in software development.
By Vinod Goje
Martha Lambert introduces the "Observability Lasagna" - a four-layer framework (Overview, System, Logs, Traces) focused on connecting layers for an optimized debugging UX. Learn practical tips for instrumentation, visualizing limits, and using event logs/exemplars to shift from general metrics to user-impact focused triaging. Essential for engineering leaders aiming for system reliability.
By Martha Lambert
On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage that disrupted global internet services, affecting millions of users and thousands of companies across more than 60 countries. The incident originated in the US-EAST-1 region and was traced to a DNS resolution failure affecting the DynamoDB endpoint, which cascaded into outages across multiple dependent services.
By Craig Risi
Engineering teams make their most consequential decisions not in architecture reviews or sprint planning, but through invisible choices embedded in metrics, defaults, and everyday behaviors. In their QCon San Francisco 2025 keynote, Shawna Martell and Dan Fike challenged the industry's focus on documented decision-making while the decisions that truly shape systems and culture go unrecognized.
By Eran Stiller
Cloud computing is evolving through disaggregation, addressing inefficiencies of traditional architectures by decoupling compute and storage. This shift enhances scalability, fault isolation, and operational simplicity, driven by advancements in networking. As seen in cloud databases such as Amazon Aurora, embracing these principles enables true economic optimization and innovative design.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
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