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Gil Collins's Groups (10)
Configuration Management SIG
8 members Latest Activity: Nov 3, 2011 Half the work of starting a project is setting it up. A large proportion is keeping it set up. We'll talk about tips and tricks, Maven, and more…
Build Team Town
4 members Latest Activity: Oct 6, 2009 You love Ant and other build tools. You can build an app, run a suite of tests, create a jar, deploy it. Or, you want to learn. This is your group!
Methodologies SIG
4 members Latest Activity: Mar 31, 2009 There's Agile. RUP. Methodologies help us keep from repeating the mistakes. They are templates for streamlining and managing our work. And, they…
Java SE Town
14 members Latest Activity: Jun 26, 2019 This group focuses on the Java SE environment. It's the core Java group. Questions? Answers? Musings? This is the place for you!
Web2.0 Town
19 members Latest Activity: Dec 22, 2013 Web2.0 is the dynamic web. It's social networking, tag clouds, metadata, geodata, and more. We love Web2.0. There's more out there than you can…
Database SIG
13 members Latest Activity: Mar 16, 2015 Object relational mapping, Hibernate, container managed persistence. Do you eat, breath and sleep databases? We do! This is the place to share what…
Groovy and Grails
25 members Latest Activity: Feb 28, 2015 Using Groovy and Grails? Discuss it here.
JEE Town
28 members Latest Activity: Dec 11, 2012 Here's your Java Enterprise Edition group. JEE powers distributed software.
OS Town
5 members Latest Activity: Mar 31, 2009 Operating systems are like religions. At this stage, people have spent entire careers with one or another. But, now we have multiple choices and…
Spring Town
47 members Latest Activity: Sep 21, 2019 Dependency injection. It's a smart approach. Believe that? We do! Come on in and share what you know. Ask all your Spring questions here, too!
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Netflix engineer Casey Bleifer shares how to achieve rapid, automated code changes across a massive, diverse software fleet. She discusses building an event-driven orchestration platform using composable, Lego-like steps, and explains how Netflix utilizes automated canary validation, compliance checks, and a custom "confidence metric" to eliminate the long tail of manual engineering migrations.
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