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Hi! Is anyone interested in one of these books? If so please follow/retweet and tell me which book. Thanx!…
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What is Groovy and why should I care?
Hello again, it's me, Adam. Earlier this year, I finished my self-published book, Learning Groovy,…
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Just a reminder: Oracle plans to stop updating Java 7 in April of this year (next month).
As outlined in the Oracle JDK Support Roadmap, after April 2015, Oracle will not post further updates of Java SE 7 to its public download sites.
This might be a good time to read …
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There’s a hot new programming language that I’m excited about. It can be used dynamically or statically-typed, your choice. It supports functional programming constructs, including first-class functions, currying, and more. It has multiple-inheritance, type inference, and meta-programming. It also integrates really well…
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Lyft has implemented an AI-driven localization system to accelerate translations of its app and web content. Using a dual-path pipeline with large language models and human review, the system processes most content in minutes, improves international release speed, ensures brand consistency, and handles complex cases like regional idioms and legal messaging efficiently.
By Leela Kumili
Mariia Bulycheva discusses the transition from classic deep learning to GNNs for Zalando's landing page. She explains the complexities of converting user logs into heterogeneous graphs, the "message passing" training process, and the technical pitfalls of graph data leakage. She shares how a hybrid architecture solved inference latency, delivering contextual embeddings to a downstream model.
By Mariia Bulycheva
InfoQ recently spoke with key members of the Spring team about the significant architectural and functional advancements in Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4. This conversation explores the strategic shift toward core resilience by integrating features such as retry and concurrency throttling directly into the framework, alongside the performance benefits of modularizing auto-configurations.
By Karsten Silz, Phil Webb, Sam Brannen, Rossen Stoyanchev, Mark Pollack, Martin Lippert, Michael MinellaViktor Peterson, part of the CISA task force working on SBOM blueprints and co-founder of sbomify, explores the shifting landscape of software supply chain security as the EU's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) comes into force, a "GDPR moment" for the industry.
By Viktor Peterson
AWS launched a standalone Sustainability console with API access, configurable CSV exports, and Scope 1-3 emissions data by service and Region. The console decouples emissions reporting from billing permissions. AWS CTO Werner Vogels framed carbon as an architectural metric belonging alongside latency, cost, and error rates in the observability stack.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
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