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Scala is a general programming language and it runs on JVM. It's a static typed language with many features that make code concise and flexible.
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Want to see how a file poller in Scala looks like? Check out…Continue
Started by Zemian Deng Mar 7, 2009.
Perhaps I should have post this as my first message to the group, but I will add it anyway for completeness. Or in case someone wants to try Scala out and at least you can grap this template to start…Continue
Started by Zemian Deng Mar 3, 2009.
One feature of Scala is it reuse Java's Exception class hierarchies, but much easier to use. For one thing, it treats Exception as "unchecked" just like RuntimeException, which I think one of the…Continue
Started by Zemian Deng Mar 3, 2009.
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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.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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Jabez Eliezer Manuel, Senior Principal Engineer at Booking.com, presented “Behind Booking.com's AI Evolution: The Unpolished Story” at QCon London 2026. Manuel discussed how Booking.com has evolved over the past 20 years and the challenges they faced on their journey to incorporate AI.
By Michael Redlich
Google has open sourced CEL-expr-python, a Python implementation of the Common Expression Language (CEL), a non-Turing complete embedded policy and expression language designed for simplicity, speed, safety, and portability.
By Sergio De Simone
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By Steef-Jan Wiggers
At QCon London 2026, Yinka Omole, Lead Software Engineer at Personio, presented a session exploring a recurring dilemma engineers face, whether to spend time mastering the newest technologies and frameworks or to invest in deeper, foundational problems that may appear less exciting but deliver long-term value.
By Daniel Dominguez
DoorDash has launched a multimodal machine learning system that aligns product images, text, and user queries in a shared embedding space. Trained on 32 million labeled query-product pairs using contrastive learning, the system improves semantic search, product ranking, and advertising relevance. Embeddings also support other machine learning tasks across the marketplace.
By Leela Kumili
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