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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…
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…
9 members Latest Activity: May 8, 2010 An app that's tested is a reliable app. An app that's unit-tested is even more reliable. This is the meat and potatoes of software development. Ya…
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!
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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Interested in Kotlin? Are you a practitioner? Kotlin is a statically typed…
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JavaScript and the world of technologies that work along with it.
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The Africa Android Challenge is on! The object is to learn and share your software development expertise...and to compete with your best Android…
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.…
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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…
24 members Latest Activity: Jun 10, 2016 Have you got a great idea you'd like to put into action? This is the place for you! We'll talk about ideas and how to turn them into businesses here.
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…
23 members Latest Activity: Aug 23, 2012 Are you interested in social networks? We're talking about virtual communities here. Community builders use tools and techniques. We'll discuss them…
5 members Latest Activity: Jul 27, 2011 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.
7 members Latest Activity: Jun 5, 2014 The SeneJUG is the West African Java Users Group. Our vibrant community meets in Dakar, Senegal. SeneJUG Town is our virtual meeting point. Ba…
8 members Latest Activity: Feb 13, 2014 Clojure is a programming language that shares the powerful meta-programming facilities of Lisp, has an agent-based approach to concurrency like…
25 members Latest Activity: Feb 28, 2015 Using Groovy and Grails? Discuss it here.
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…
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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Swiggy detailed real-time machine-learning ranking system for autocomplete built on OpenSearch. The architecture separates candidate generation and ranking, uses feature stores for real time signals, and applies learning to rank models for improved relevance. It replaces heuristic ranking while maintaining strict latency constraints and enabling continuous model updates from user behavior signals.
By Leela Kumili
Anthropic hosted "Code with Claude 2026" in San Francisco, featuring livestream sessions focused on Claude Code, the Claude API platform, and other projects. Key topics included developer experience, autonomy features, model step-changes, and the impact of AI on product architecture. Discussions included insights from GitHub, Vercel, and AI-native startups on engineering strategies and challenges.
By Andrew Hoblitzell
This week's Java roundup for May 11th, 2026, features news highlighting: three OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 27; introducting Azul Payara Community and the WildFly wado CLI tool; point releases of LangChain4j and Google ADK; and maintenance releases of Micronaut and OpenXava.
By Michael RedlichMichael Stiefel spoke to Baruch Sadogursky about software architecture in the age of agentic AI. LLM can function, albeit stochastically, as reasoning machines capable of interpreting human ambiguity. With the appropriate rigorous context artifacts to control the LLM’s reasoning, software specifications can become the source of truth, while the code becomes a disposable intermediate language.
By Baruch Sadogursky
We wanted to expose a B2B intelligence platform built on more than one million company profiles to an LLM client through an MCP server so a user can ask “find SaaS companies in Germany with 50-200 employees” and receive results through the LLM client. The engineering problem was: How do you make that workflow useful without creating an unsafe bridge between an LLM and production data?
By Shadi Elyafi
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