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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!
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Calling all Java lovers! The OrlandoJUG features leading edge presentations with you in mind. We meet every month with talks on interesting…
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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Vercel has announced version 4.0 of its open-source AI SDK toolkit designed for building AI applications in JavaScript and TypeScript. The update introduces key features like PDF support, computer use integration, and a new xAI Grok API.
By Daniel DominguezGoogle has announced the general availability of its C4A virtual machines, marking the debut of Axion-based instances. The cloud provider claims these instances deliver up to 10% better price-performance compared to the latest Arm-based alternatives from competitors, including Amazon Graviton4.
By Renato LosioNetflix extended its prioritized load-shedding implementation to the individual service level to further improve system resilience. The approach uses cloud capacity more efficiently by shedding low-priority requests only when necessary instead of maintaining separate clusters for failure isolation.
By Rafal GancarzWenjie Zi of Grammarly addressed the high failure rates in machine learning at QCon SF 2024, revealing challenges from misaligned business goals to poor data quality. She advocated for a "fail fast" approach and robust MLOps infrastructure, emphasizing that learning from failures can drive success. Clear objectives and rigorous practices are essential for effective implementation.
By Andrew HoblitzellAt QConSF 2024, Cody Yu presented how Anyscale’s Ray can more effectively handle scaling out batch inference. Some of the problems Ray can assist with include scaling large datasets (hundreds of GBs or more), ensuring reliability with spot and on-demand instances, managing multi-stage heterogeneous compute, and managing tradeoffs with cost and latency.
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