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Kotlin Thursdays
Kotlin is a statically-typed language that runs on the JVM. Developed by a small JetBrains team in St. Petersburg, Kotlin is one of the hottest upcoming languages being used around the world. We're here to grow together as an open-source community and to learn collaboratively!
Crowdsourcing Kotlin-focused Tutorials
From content on the Kotlin language itself to programming paradigms to frameworks, we encourage anyone to submit content on anything Kotlin related. Our goal is learn collaboratively, meaning that the Kotlin Thursdays team is ready to help you submit content to share with others.
How do Kotlin Thursdays work?
Every Thursday, we release new content every season. We have blogs available here in KotlinTown. This season, we're creating webisodes to compliment that content. Code and documentation related to content is available on Github.
Interested in contributing? Head over Github to learn how you can get started :)
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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InfoQ Reading List
AWS Introduces Amazon S3 Annotations
AWS recently announced Amazon S3 Annotations, a feature that lets teams attach rich, searchable context such as summaries, classifications, compliance data, or AI-generated insights directly to S3 objects. Annotations can be updated independently of the object and queried across datasets, reducing the need for separate metadata systems.
By Renato LosioClaude Reaches GA on Microsoft Foundry: European Enterprises Cannot Deploy It
Claude models reached GA on Microsoft Foundry with Azure-native billing and governance, but no European data zone exists. Anthropic's own documentation confirms data residency guarantees apply to Bedrock and Vertex AI but not Foundry. European practitioners from banking and healthcare report the offering is unapproved for production.
By Steef-Jan WiggersCycle Introduces EU Control Plane as Sovereignty Debate Continues
Cycle recently introduced a separate EU-based control plane, allowing European customers to keep platform management data and telemetry within Europe. The new offering is designed to improve compliance, operational isolation, and responsiveness for European organizations.
By Renato LosioCloudflare Details Unified Data Platform Where Billing Workloads Account for 53% of Queries
Cloudflare details Town Lake, an internal unified data platform, and Skipper, an AI analytics agent unifying access to operational, billing, security, and business data. The platform processed ~91K billing queries, with billing forming majority usage. Built on a lakehouse architecture using Trino, Iceberg, R2, and DataHub, it enables governed cross-system analytics and natural language access.
By Leela KumiliHardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies
Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started to improve the handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, optimal alternative to the Apache Parquet Java implementation. For now, the library provides a reading via API and a CLI for visualisation; writing support is expected in the upcoming versions.
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