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Interested in Android programming? Here's a nice, recent article at Lifehacker outlining good, free resources to get you going. http://lifehacker.com/i-want-to-write-android-apps-where-do-i-start-1643818268 ;
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Here's a message from O'Relly about OSCON 2015:
We're deep into planning OSCON 2015 and we've got some exciting news: OSCON is changing. We're no longer beating the drum and…
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The O'Reilly Solid conference is in San Diego in June and it's all about the merging of HW/SW for the IoT. Want to get involved? The Call for Papers is open and there are loads of benefits in giving a presentation for an O'Reilly conference., Take it from me! It's a great thing to do for the community and you learn a ton…
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Our friend Carol just published this article.
SQL will become one of the most prolific use cases in the Hadoop ecosystem, according to Forrester Research. Apache Drill is an open source SQL query engine for big data exploration. REST services and clients have emerged as popular technologies on the Internet. Apache HBase is a hugely popular Hadoop NoSQL…
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Vercel has open-sourced json-render, a framework that enables AI models to create structured user interfaces from natural language prompts. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, it supports multiple frontend frameworks and features a catalog of components defined by developers. Community feedback includes both support and skepticism, highlighting its differences from existing standards.
By Daniel Curtis
AI poses major challenges for green IT: each query consumes vast energy, GPU chips last only 2-3 years, and costs stay hidden from users. Regulatory frameworks like the EU AI Act fall short on enforcement, Ludi Akue said. In her talk What I Wish I Knew When I Started with Green IT she presented model compression, quantization, and novel architectures, using sustainability as a design constraint.
By Ben Linders
AWS introduced account-regional namespaces for S3, fixing global bucket name collisions that broke IaC automation for 18 years. New format: {prefix}-{account-id}-{region}-an. CloudFormation gets the BucketNamePrefix property, and IAM gets the s3:x-amz-bucket-namespace condition key. Prevents confused-deputy attacks by making names unpredictable when there is no account ID.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Andrew Davidson and Akshat Vig discuss the journey of disrupting the transactional database market. They explain why the document model became the "Buckminster Fuller" moment for modern apps and share lessons on scaling from "web-scale" memes to mission-critical workloads. Leaders will learn about operational excellence, monetizing convenience over control, and navigating the open-source race.
By Akshat Vig, Andrew Davidson
In the GenAI era, code is a commodity, but alignment is not. Traditional review boards can't scale with AI-generated output. This article explores "Declarative Architecture" - transforming ADRs and Event Models into automated guardrails. Move beyond "dumping left" to a model where the conformant path is the path of least resistance, enabling decentralized governance without losing cohesion.
By Kyle Howard, Christian Johansen, Dana Katzenelson, Brian Rhoten, Warren Gray
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