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I’m told this is a great intro to reactive programming. So of course, I intend to read it! Here it is: https://gist.github.com/staltz/868e7e9bc2a7b8c1f754
Thoughts?
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you haven’t checked it out already, take a look at www.photofeeler.com. Read about it’s logic. It’s fascinating! Stay tuned for more. I’m blogging form my iPhone!
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This Java ecosystem survey is both informative and will be useful to many people. Please fill it out if you have the time.
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For those of you interested in going to Java One, now known as Code One, the call for papers has been extended a week.
This year, Code One will have much more than just Java. You'll find Python and Go, R and much more.
Take a look at the agenda and think about going. And, for an even more exciting time, think about submitting a proposal…
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Hey, I started a Kotlin group - check it out and join if you'd like! I just put up a page dedicated to Kotlin links, books, and more resources. Will add more features like popular frameworks and chat later on.
Added by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez on May 9, 2018 at 10:59am — 3 Comments
Every Java developer, in fact every software developer should have the opportunity to attend a technical conference every year or so. Increasingly, software conferences like Java One (now Code One) are becoming more broad and including multiple technologies. Ian Darwin is now publishing a great calendar of Java-related conferences. Here's the link: …
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If you’re passionate about the state of Istio, know how to leverage it with open source tools such as Prometheus and Zipkin, have an Istio demo, or have a great story or best practice to share, O'Reilly wants to hear from you. Each jam-packed 30-minute session should include your insights on why you have chosen Istio and how you are getting the most out of it. Istio Day sessions will take place on…
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Molly Struve discusses a brutal six-day outage that nearly sank a company. She explains technical lessons like the importance of FMEAs, shadow traffic, and exercising rollback mechanisms. She shares why the human elements - widening your circle early and having a VP who acts as a defender - are what truly build psychological safety.
By Molly Struve
Effectively measuring the performance of applications that are leveraging Large Language Models (LLM) is critical to the adoption of AI technologies in organizations. Legare Kerrison and Cedric Clyburn from RedHat team recently spoke at Arc of AI 2026 Conference about practical methods to evaluate and optimize LLM inference.
By Srini Penchikala
CodeGuardian is an MCP server that extends AI coding assistants with comprehensive code quality and security analysis capabilities. By implementing eleven specialized tools, CodeGuardian enables developers to access enterprise-grade analysis directly through their AI assistant, eliminating context-switching and reducing friction in adopting secure coding practices.
By Madhvesh Kumar, Deepika Singh
OpenChoreo, the open-source internal developer platform built on Kubernetes, has shipped its 1.0 release and been accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox. The project is designed to give engineering teams a complete foundation for running workloads on Kubernetes without requiring them to build it themselves.
By Matt Saunders
npmx is an open-source package browser for the npm registry, developed by Daniel Roe and over 250 contributors. It emphasizes speed and features absent in the official npmjs.com interface, such as install size calculations and outdated dependency warnings. Feedback highlights its quick search performance but raises design concerns. The project is available on GitHub.
By Daniel Curtis
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