January 2015 Blog Posts (6)

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Phone Software Entrepreneurs? Under 30 Forbes List

Forbes published an under 30 tech list featuring entrepreneurs who've made it big. Read about it …

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Added by Michael Levin on January 27, 2015 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Getting Started With Android

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 ;

Added by Michael Levin on January 22, 2015 at 11:05am — No Comments

Pay What You Want: Back-End Developer Course Bundle

Pay What You Want: Back-End Developer Course Bundle…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 20, 2015 at 10:23am — No Comments

Speak at OSCON!

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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Added by Michael Levin on January 9, 2015 at 11:47am — No Comments

O'Reilly Solid Conference CFP closes 1/20!

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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Added by Michael Levin on January 9, 2015 at 9:30am — No Comments

How to Use SQL, Hadoop, Drill, REST, JSON, NoSQL, and HBase in a Simple REST Client

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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Added by Michael Levin on January 7, 2015 at 1:45pm — No Comments

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React Navigation 8.0 Alpha with Native Bottom Tabs, Reworked TypeScript Inference and History

React Navigation has released version 8.0 in alpha, updating its routing library for React Native and web applications. Notable changes include native bottom tabs as the default, enhanced TypeScript inference, and deep linking enabled by default. The update prioritizes stability and includes a guide for migration from version 7.x.

By Daniel Curtis

Google Introduces Room 3.0: A Kotlin-First, Async, Multiplatform Persistence Library

Room 3.0 is a major update to Android's persistence library that introduces breaking changes in key areas. The new release focuses on modernizing Android persistence layer around Kotlin Multiplatform and expands platform support to include JavaScript and WebAssembly.

By Sergio De Simone

Grafana Rearchitects Loki with Kafka and Ships a CLI to Bring Observability Into Coding Agent

At GrafanaCON 2026 in Barcelona, Grafana Labs announced Grafana 13 with the new Loki Kafka-backed architecture at the ingestion layer and the AI Observability in Grafana Cloud to monitor and evaluate AI systems in real time. In particular, the new CLI called GCX was announced, designed to surface Grafana Cloud data inside agentic development environments.

By Claudio Masolo

How Observability and Telemetry Can Enhance the Practice of Software Engineering

Observability must evolve with serverless, event-driven architectures. OpenTelemetry can decouple telemetry from vendors, letting developers emit consistent, high-quality data that explains real system behavior. Shared vocabularies and good telemetry make debugging faster and improve reliability, speed, and developer productivity.

By Ben Linders

Presentation: How to Build an Exchange: Sub Millisecond Response Times and 24/7 Uptimes in the Cloud

Frank Yu shares Coinbase’s engineering philosophy for building resilient, fair, and fast financial exchanges. He explains the power of a single-threaded architecture combined with the Raft consensus algorithm to maintain 24/7 availability. He discusses how determinism enables zero-downtime rolling deployments and the ability to replay production logs for perfect bug reproduction.

By Frank Yu

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