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Java books for any libraryWhat books should be on the bookshelf of EVERY Java programmer, no matter what specific technologies they are working on?The two that come… Started by David Moskowitz |
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Feb 8, 2019 Reply by sneha gulati |
Error trying to use FragmentI am new to Android. I have been working thru some examples in a book called Head First Android Development. I entered a small program u… Started by Robert Sobol |
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Fragment Syntax ProblemMy name is Rob Sobol. I have been working through a book called Head First Android Development. I hit a syntax error in a simple exercise… Started by Robert Sobol |
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Hadoop getting old?An article just came out in InfoWorld about trends, which is always an interesting subject. Funny, they said Hadoop wasn't hot. Spark is. I… Started by Michael Levin |
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What's functional programming, anyway?Can you believe people are still trying to come up with a good definition or explanation of what functional programming is? Paul Krill is a… Started by Michael Levin |
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Santafe CollegeSantafe just added a new BAS bachelor's program of study. 5651 Programming Started by Dan Lackey |
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Feb 15, 2016 Reply by Michael Levin |
Using SQL with Node,.jsAll the tutorials and books for node.js seem to use Mongo as the database. I am not sold on 'document' databases and would like to know ho… Started by Kevin Neelands |
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Nov 10, 2015 Reply by Lou Caudell |
The advantages of a RESTfull web-based APII need to get a better handle on the advantages of a RESTful web-based API. People tell me they scale better than other methods, but I don… Started by Kevin Neelands |
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Oct 25, 2015 Reply by Kevin Neelands |
Want a Job?Hi, Not sure if this is the appropriate place to post this sort of things (forgive me if its not). My company (really nice company btw) i… Started by Saad Laassel |
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Oct 15, 2014 Reply by Theresa Wizorek-MacIntyre |
Storing Sensitive Data ( like SSNs )We might have to store Social Security Numbers. We REALLY don't want to do this in our own database, we'd like some external 'vault' servi… Started by Kevin Neelands |
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May 7, 2014 Reply by Michael Levin |
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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InfoQ Reading List
Presentation: Foundation Models for Ranking: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned
Moumita Bhattacharya discusses the evolution of Netflix’s ranking systems, from the multi-model architecture to a Unified Contextual Recommender (UniCoRn). She explains how they built a task-agnostic User Foundation Model to capture long-term member preferences. Learn how they solve system challenges like high-throughput inference and the tradeoff between relevance and personalization.
By Moumita BhattacharyaSwift Cross-Platform Framework Skip Now Fully Open Source
After three years of development, the team behind Skip, a solution designed to create iOS and Android apps from a single Swift/SwiftUI codebase, has announced their decision to make the product completely and open source, in order to foster adoption and community contribution.
By Sergio De SimoneRailway Highlights the Importance of Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Alerts for Diagnosing System Failure
Railway’s engineering team published a comprehensive guide to observability, explaining how developers and SRE teams can use logs, metrics, traces, and alerts together to understand and diagnose production system failures.
By Craig RisiGoogle BigQuery Adds SQL-Native Managed Inference for Hugging Face Models
Google has launched SQL-native managed inference for 180,000+ Hugging Face models in BigQuery. The preview release collapses the ML lifecycle into a unified SQL interface, eliminating the need for separate Kubernetes or Vertex AI management. Key features include automated resource governance via endpoint_idle_ttl and secure identity-based execution using existing data warehouse permissions.
By Steef-Jan WiggersGoogle Introduces TranslateGemma Open Models for Multilingual Translation
Google has released TranslateGemma, a set of open translation models based on the Gemma 3 architecture, offering 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter variants designed to support machine translation across 55 languages and to run on platforms ranging from mobile and edge devices to consumer hardware and cloud accelerators.
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