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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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Podcast: Elena Samuylova on Large Language Model (LLM) Based Application Evaluation and LLM as a Judge
In this podcast, InfoQ spoke with Elena Samuylova from Evidently AI, on best practices in evaluating Large Language Model (LLM) based applications. She also discussed the tools for evaluating, testing and monitoring applications powered by AI technologies.
By Elena SamuylovaJava News Roundup: JDK 26 Release Schedule, GlassFish, Spring AI, Helidon, Mandrel 25, Seed4j
This week's Java roundup for September 29th, 2025, features news highlighting: JEP 527, Post-Quantum Hybrid Key Exchange for TLS 1.3; the proposed JDK 26 release schedule; the release of Mandrel 25 and Seed4j; milestone releases of GlassFish 8.0 and 7.1; the beta release of WildFly 38; and point releases of Spring AI, Helidon, Micronaut, LangChain4j, Gatherers4j and Keycloak.
By Michael RedlichNew DNS Armor Service Helps Google Cloud Workloads Preemptively Block Cyber Threats
Google Cloud's DNS Armor, in partnership with Infoblox, offers a vital layer of security against DNS-based threats for Google Cloud workloads. Utilizing advanced threat detection and machine learning, it identifies and mitigates risks like malware and data exfiltration, ensuring robust protection without impacting performance. Deployable as a managed service providing seamless control for users.
By Steef-Jan WiggersVercel Introduces Drains for Unified Data Export
Vercel has released Vercel Drains, a system for exporting observability data from its platform into external services. The feature unifies logs, distributed traces, web analytics events, and performance metrics into a single streaming mechanism.
By Daniel DominguezAWS Introduces M4 and M4 Pro Mac Instances for Faster Apple App Development
AWS has recently launched two new Mac instances (M4 and M4 Pro) built on Apple's latest M4 silicon. The new EC2 instances provide faster CPU performance, enhanced graphics, and increased memory for building iOS and macOS applications.
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