May 2016 Blog Posts (4)

Meeting Mycroft: An Open AI Platform You Can Order Around By Voice

Mycroft developer Ryan Sipes, speaking from the show floor of this year's OSCON in Austin,…

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Added by Timothy Lord on May 30, 2016 at 11:00pm — No Comments

The Making of Swampcast

Here's a video documentary about Swampcast called "The Making of Swampcast"

http://bit.ly/1Uk8620

Added by Michael Levin on May 28, 2016 at 9:00am — No Comments

Learning Groovy and Self-publishing

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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Added by Adam Davis on May 25, 2016 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Is Social Networking Over?

Has social networking reached it's peak?

The change from traditional read-only web pages to read write web pages took the world by storm. Web 2.0 gave rise to blogs and social features that gave a voice to the independent. It…

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Added by Michael Levin on May 3, 2016 at 10:30am — No Comments

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Presentation: The Human Toll of Incidents & Ways To Mitigate It

Kyle Lexmond explains how to handle the high-pressure environment of severe production outages. He discusses the critical distinction between mitigation and root-cause resolution, sharing personal experiences from harrowing incident rooms. He shares valuable operational strategies on overcoming cognitive overload, establishing blameless cultures, and optimizing systems for faster recovery.

By Kyle Lexmond

OpenTelemetry Launches “Blueprints” Initiative to Simplify Enterprise Observability Adoption

OpenTelemetry has introduced a new "Blueprints" initiative aimed at reducing the growing complexity of deploying and operating observability systems at scale.

By Craig Risi

Article: Why Vector Search Alone Isn't Enough: Hybrid Retrieval for RAG

In this article, author Aaditya Chauhan discusses the limitations of RAG pipelines based purely on vector search and how an internal omni-search application using Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) that combines BM25 and vector results, can enhance the search solution.

By Aaditya Chauhan

Google Workspace CLI: Unified Command-Line Tool Built for Humans and AI Agents

Google has released a new CLI for Google Workspace, offering a unified interface for various services like Drive, Gmail, and Calendar. Built in Rust, the tool dynamically adjusts to API changes and features over 100 bundled skills. It requires Node.js and a Google Cloud project for setup. Initial community feedback is mixed, highlighting both its dynamic capabilities and setup challenges.

By Daniel Curtis

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Hazelcast, Quarkus, Hibernate, Koog, JHipster, Introducing Endive

This week's Java roundup for May 25th, 2026, features news highlighting: lifecycle changes with two of the JEPs that were targeted for JDK 27; the GA release of Koog 1.0; point releases of Hazelcast, Quarkus, Hibernate and JHipster; the eighth milestone release of Spring AI 2.0; and introducing Endive, a JVM-native WebAssembly (Wasm) runtime.

By Michael Redlich

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