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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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Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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Rachael Wonnacott explains why DevEx is a lever, not the destination. Discover the risks of treating your platform as an isolated product and learn how to balance trade-offs between technical expertise, productivity, and business impact for achieving enterprise-scale success.
By Rachael Wonnacott
Buoyant, the company behind the open-source Linkerd service mesh, announced that Linkerd now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), making it the first service mesh to natively manage, secure, and observe agentic AI traffic in Kubernetes environments.
By Craig RisiVivek Yadav, an engineering manager from Stripe, shares his experience in building a testing system based on multi-year worth of data. He shares insights into why Apache Spark was the choice for creating such a system and how it fits in the "traditional" engineering practices.
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Engineering Manager Nishant Lakshmikanth showcased LinkedIn's transformation at QCon SF 2025, detailing a shift from legacy batch-based systems to a real-time architecture. By decoupling recommendations and leveraging dynamic scoring techniques, LinkedIn achieved a 90% reduction in offline costs, enhanced session-level freshness, and improved member engagement while future-proofing its platform.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Meta has released SAM 3, the latest version of its Segment Anything Model and the most substantial update to the project since its initial launch. Built to provide more stable and context-aware segmentation, the model offers improvements in accuracy, boundary quality, and robustness to real-world scenes, aiming to make segmentation more reliable across research and production systems.
By Robert Krzaczyński
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