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We have a chance for a special Ceylon talk on either Mon 10/13, Fri 10/17, Mon 10/20, or Fri 10/24 in Orlando at OrlandoJUG and/or Gainesville at GatorJUG.
As you all know, OJUG meets 4th Th and GatorJUG meets 2nd Wed and these are Mondays and Fridays, so I need your…
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If you're a JUG member, the JavaOne event team wants you to know there's a special discount for you:
"We are offering our JUG’s a special discount for the month of June to
register for JavaOne 2014. The discount will provide an additional $200
savings off the current Early Bird price of $1,650. This…
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These days, it's hard to stick with just one language. Sure, you may be a Java developer or a Rubyist and "not interested" in learning another language. We tend to get comfortable in our comfort zone. But, being a polyglot has its advantages.
Tim Crowley just presented at SunJUG and…
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Platform engineering has to be approached from a socio-technical perspective, and shaped by all stakeholders, not just developers, Sergiu Petean said in his talk Driving the Future of Insurance through Platform Engineering. Platform success depends on written principles that endure change while embracing change as the main design force, to enable teams to build, run, and release software.
By Ben Linders
Cloudflare announced Agent Memory in private beta, a managed service that extracts structured memories from AI agent conversations and retrieves them on demand using five-channel parallel retrieval with Reciprocal Rank Fusion. Shared memory profiles let teams of agents access common knowledge. Competitors include Mem0, Zep, LangMem, and Letta.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Meta has already begun preparing for the threats posed by quantum computing and migrating its systems to post-quantum cryptography, a complex process that will take multiple years to complete. In a recent article, Meta researchers outline their strategy and share key lessons learned along the way.
By Sergio De Simone
Jimmy Morzaria discusses the evolution of Stripe’s database tier to support 5 million QPS with 5.5 nines of reliability. He explains the architecture of DocDB and shares how Stripe leverages a custom zero-downtime data movement platform to perform horizontal sharding, version upgrades, and multi-tenant migrations - all while maintaining the strict consistency required for global commerce.
By Jimmy Morzaria
Dropbox recently explained how it improved storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, the company's internal immutable blob store for storing user files at scale, by redesigning compaction strategies to reclaim space from severely underfilled storage volumes. The system now periodically reorganizes valid data into new volumes, allowing old, partially used ones to be cleared and reused.
By Renato Losio
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