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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…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on June 27, 2014 at 11:15am — 4 Comments
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…
Added by Michael Levin on June 5, 2014 at 9:02am — No Comments
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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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 It emphasizes speed and features absent in the official npmjs.com interface, such as install size calculations and outdated dependency warnings.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
This week's Java roundup for April 20th, 2026, features news highlighting: updates on OpenJDK JEPs; JDK 27 release schedule finalized; the Oracle Critical Patch Updates for April 2026 and corresponding patch updates from BellSoft and Azul; the April 2026 edition of Open Liberty; and maintenance releases of Testcontainers, Multik and IntelliJ IDEA.
By Michael Redlich
The 12 tracks for QCon San Francisco 2026 (November 16-20) are now live. Four tracks cover AI in production. The other eight cover the rest of what senior engineering still demands: distributed systems, architecture teardowns, resilience, platform internals, API design, and Staff+ leadership. Early bird pricing runs until May 12th.
By Artenisa Chatziou
Uber engineers migrated over 75,000 test classes from JUnit 4 to JUnit 5 using automated code transformation with OpenRewrite and internal orchestration. By enabling the JUnit Platform for dual execution with Bazel and validating changes through CI, the team modernized testing infrastructure while maintaining correctness at monorepo scale.
By Leela Kumili
Wayne Bell and Dan Gomez Blanco discuss the architectural and cultural shift required to scale observability at Skyscanner. They share how moving to OpenTelemetry decoupled instrumentation from vendors, and explain why treating a platform as a product - with engineers as customers - is the key to reducing incident rates and eliminating technical debt across 800+ microservices.
By Dan Gomez Blanco, Wayne Bell
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