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JavaScript and the world of technologies that work along with it.
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Come join us here at the RDC JUG Town! Stanislas Matayo and the group in Kinshasa welcome you.
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Coders4Africa provides African programmers gateway to free training and certification in the main technologies…
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12 members Latest Activity: May 7, 2018 JUG-AFRICA is an umbrella Group for Java User Groups located on the continent of Africa.The idea behind JUG-AFRICA is to allow JUGs located within…
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9 members Latest Activity: Oct 27, 2011 We've had a unique opportunity to speak with Brion Vibber recently at the October Orlandojug meeting. Let's discuss what we learned for those who…
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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.
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Instagram Direct migrated its Android UI from the legacy Android View system to Jetpack Compose, creating an AI-native UI codebase that is easier for AI coding agents to understand, modify, and maintain. According to Instagram engineers, the migration reduced UI code volume by 50% and token costs per AI agent session by 33%.
By Sergio De Simone
Software only has value when shipped; faster release cadence matters. Development, deployment, and operations require different thinking, metrics, and investments. There are four impacts in tech: product success, compute capacity, engineering capacity, and strategic innovation. The biggest expense is people. AI shifts engineers toward deeper problem understanding, not fewer engineers.
By Ben Linders
Brendan O'Leary discusses how real-world AI adoption depends on building trust rather than chasing model benchmarks. Drawing from 40 trillion tokens of usage data, he explains the four rungs of the AI adoption ladder and analyzes key failure points in context construction, multi-model routing, and feedback loops to help engineering leaders successfully scale agentic workflows.
By Brendan O’Leary
Grafana Labs has released Tempo 3.1, the first minor update to the 3.0 architecture. It adds TLS and additional SASL mechanisms to the Kafka client, lets operators redact traces with a TraceQL query instead of a list of trace IDs, and introduces an experimental query-time hint that corrects TraceQL metrics for sampled data.
By Claudio Masolo
Spring Authorization Server now lives inside Spring Security 7 under the same Maven coordinates, so the upgrade is a version bump. This server-side guide covers enabling DPoP and RFC 8693 Token Exchange, explains why 7.1 apps can silently stop enforcing DPoP until they call .dPoP(), and shows how to combine both into narrowed, sender-constrained tokens for service-to-service and agentic calls.
By Dhruv Agnihotri
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