January 2016 Blog Posts (4)

Open Source Bridge CFP (Portland <3)

Open Source Bridge is a conference in Portland, Oregon. It's in June and that's a great time to be in Portland. This year, OSCON is going to be in Austin. OSB's call for papers is open now. There are lots of reasons to pick Open Source Bridge as a conference destination this year. Check out the …

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Added by Michael Levin on January 26, 2016 at 9:48am — No Comments

.Net Opensourced?

The Microsoft people have open sourced .Net! Read about it here: http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/06/net-open-source.html



Have you tried it? I can't wait! The architecture is simple and hasn't changed enough to mess you up if it's been a while since you used it.



I want to hear all about your Open Source .Net adventures. Yes, there's a .Net group here on Codetown. Just take a look around...



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Added by Michael Levin on January 24, 2016 at 9:48am — No Comments

Comparing JavaScript Frameworks

Here's a great article by Uri comparing Ember, Angular and Backbone:

https://www.airpair.com/js/javascript-framework-comparison

Have you got a case study or experience to add?

Added by Michael Levin on January 11, 2016 at 5:30am — No Comments

2 FREE EBOOKS! JAVA 8 AND FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING!

Introducing Java 8

by Raoul-Gabriel Urma

Offers a practical tutorial to some of the core Java 8 features and gets you programming quickly with Java 8.http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/introducing-java-8.csp



Object Oriented vs Functional Programming

by Richard Warburton

Explains the similarities and differences…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 7, 2016 at 1:53pm — No Comments

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InfoQ Reading List

QCon London 2026: Tools That Enable the Next 1B Developers

At QCon London 2026, Ivan Zarea, Director of Platform Engineering at Netlify, discussed the impact of AI on web development, noting a surge in non-traditional developers among the 11 million users on the platform. He presented three pillars for developer tools: developing expertise, honing taste, and practicing clairvoyance, emphasizing the need for thoughtful architecture in a evolving landscape.

By Daniel Curtis

Uber Launches IngestionNext: Streaming-First Data Lake Cuts Latency and Compute by 25%

Uber launches IngestionNext, a streaming-first data lake ingestion platform that reduces data latency from hours to minutes and cuts compute usage by 25%. Built on Kafka, Flink, and Apache Hudi, it supports thousands of datasets, enabling faster analytics, experimentation, and machine learning workloads globally.

By Leela Kumili

Podcast: [Video Podcast] Agentic Systems Without Chaos: Early Operating Models for Autonomous Agents

In this episode, Shweta Vohra and Joseph Stein explore what changes when software systems start planning, acting, and making decisions on their own. The conversation distinguishes truly agentic use cases from traditional automation and looks at how architects and engineers should think about boundaries, orchestration, and system design in this new environment.

By Joseph Stein

AWS Load Balancer Controller Reaches GA with Kubernetes Gateway API Support

AWS shipped GA support for Kubernetes Gateway API in its Load Balancer Controller, dumping annotation-based configuration for type-safe CRDs with proper validation. The release handles both L4 (TCP/UDP via NLB) and L7 (HTTP/gRPC via ALB) routing through the Gateway API spec. Teams get cross-namespace routing, automatic certificate discovery, and role separation without cluster-admin permissions.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Presentation: Panel: Security Against Modern Threats

The panelists discuss the dramatic escalation of software supply chain threats, from typosquatting to AI-generated vulnerabilities. They explain how to move beyond basic scanning by adopting a zero trust mindset toward CI/CD pipelines and external dependencies.

By Sonya Moisset, Andra Lezza, Stefania Chaplin, Celine Pypaert, Emma Yuan Fang

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