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Anjuli Vivian Atwal's Blog – July 2011 Archive (2)
Live streaming of Oscon 2011
Oscon 2011 is just days away from happening. For some of you, attending Oscon may not be an option. It's possible that you have other obligations, don't have a budget for it, or even don't know much about it. Well have no fear, this year Oscon 2011 will be streaming live on Codetown via the group Oscon 2011. For those of you who are curious about it, take some time to watch an hour or so. Anyone who really wanted to attend…
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O'Reilly Oscon now features Java
The annual open source convention, simply known as Oscon, has come around for its 13th year and this year it features Oscon Java. Oscon is where developers, innovators, businesspeople, and investors come together to change everyday business practices and thinking. It's a technical conference that covers a range of open source, from Linux and MySQL to middleware and cloud computing as well as anything in between.
Oscon is designed to provide informative tutorials, activities,…
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By Renato LosioArm Open-Sources Metis, an AI Security Framework Outperforming Traditional SAST Tools
Arm has open-sourced Metis, an agentic AI security framework designed to autonomously uncover complex software vulnerabilities. Unlike traditional pattern-based tools, Metis applies semantic reasoning to analyze cross-component dependencies and provides clear, natural language explanations for its findings.
By Sergio De SimoneGoogle Cloud Suspends Railway's Production Account, Causing Eight-Hour Platform-Wide Outage
Google Cloud's automated systems suspended Railway's production account without notice, triggering an eight-hour platform-wide outage affecting 3 million users. The cascade took down workloads across all providers including AWS and bare metal because Railway's control plane was hosted on GCP. Railway is demoting GCP to backup-only status.
By Steef-Jan WiggersHow Meta Rebuilt Data Ingestion for Petabyte-Scale Reliability
The engineering team at Meta recently outlined how the company migrated a data ingestion platform that transfers several petabytes of MySQL social graph data daily to improve reliability and operational efficiency. The team used techniques like reverse shadowing and continuous checksum monitoring to ensure zero downtime during the transition.
By Renato LosioPresentation: Building Evals for AI Adoption: From Principles to Practice
Mallika Rao discusses the hidden risk of evaluation debt in production AI systems, drawing on her experience at Twitter, Walmart, and Netflix. She explains why traditional metrics fail modern architectures, breaks down a five-layer evaluation stack spanning infrastructure and UX, and shares a diagnostic maturity model to help engineering leaders eliminate silent semantic failures.
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