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Computational Linguistics Village
15 members Latest Activity: May 6, 2018 Ever wonder how Google Translate works? It's computational linguistics! Join us here and learn all about it and more. Jim White will be our guide.…
Cloud Computing Village
16 members Latest Activity: Aug 21, 2015 Cloud Computing is "the next big thing". The recent JavaOne featured Cloud Computing more than any other technology. Come join us and explore /…
Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC) JUG Town
8 members Latest Activity: Jun 5, 2014
Come join us here at the RDC JUG Town! Stanislas Matayo and the group in Kinshasa welcome you.
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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Docker Makes Hardened Images Free in Container Security Shift
Docker has made its catalogue of more than 1,000 hardened container images freely available under an open source licence. Docker Hardened Images were previously a commercial offering launched in May 2025, but are now accessible to all developers under an Apache 2.0 licence with no restrictions on use or distribution.
By Matt SaundersMinIO GitHub Repository in Maintenance Mode: What's Next for the Open Source Object Storage?
After a contentious license change and the removal of administrator functionalities from the console, the company behind the popular open-source object storage server Minio recently announced that the project will now enter maintenance mode. The change has raised discussion in the community about the need for a fork, the challenges of open source projects, and the current alternatives.
By Renato LosioHow Authress Designed for Resilience and Survived a Major AWS Outage
Identity and authentication services company Authress shared its strategy to stay operational during major cloud infrastructure outages like the massive October 2025 AWS outage that disrupted many major services. According to Authress CTO Warren Parad, the company's resilience architecture relies on strategies like multi-region deployment and minimizing reliance on AWS control plane services.
By Sergio De SimoneRunning Modern ES2023 JavaScript Inside Go Using QJS and WebAssembly
QJS is a CGO-free, modern JavaScript runtime for Go that embeds the QuickJS-NG engine in a WebAssembly module and runs it with Wazero, providing Go applications with a sandboxed ES2023 environment with async/await and tight Go–JS interoperability.
By Olimpiu PopAWS Launches Network Firewall Proxy in Preview to Simplify Managed Egress Security
AWS has unveiled the preview of its Network Firewall proxy, a managed service that optimizes proxy management and enhances outbound security for VPCs. Integrated with NAT Gateway, this tool inspects traffic through a three-phase model and supports both TLS interception and centralized models via Transit Gateway. Currently available in East Ohio.
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