September 2011 Blog Posts (7)

Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 5/SE 6 Preparation Article

Oracle offers variety of Java Certifications for all Java Editions (Java SE, Java EE and Java ME).  Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 5/SE 6 (Formerly Sun Certified Java Associate (SCJA) ) certification provides basic knowledge required to manage a Java project.

 

What exam I need to pass to achieve OCA for Java SE 6 Certification?



You need to complete 1Z0-850 – Java Standard Edition 5 and 6, Certified Associate Exam to…

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Added by Treacy Jane on September 30, 2011 at 6:11am — No Comments

Internet Marketing

Internet Marketing (Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Email Marketing) articles.

Added by Treacy Jane on September 28, 2011 at 9:11am — No Comments

Online Exam and Certification Preparation

You can find out articles about online exam and certification preparation

Added by Treacy Jane on September 28, 2011 at 9:07am — No Comments

GroovyFX, Getting started.

Dean Iverson and I have been working on an open source project called GroovyFX that provides a Groovy binding that sits on the new JavaFX 2.0 platform.  Dean has written a good blog on how to get started with GroovyFX here. It is already a little dated, but if you ignore the JavaFX build numbers and just download the…

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Added by Jim Clarke on September 27, 2011 at 4:51pm — No Comments

New Quartz-2.1.0 and MySchedule-2.1.2 release is out

Hi there,

 

I have couple announcements.

 

First: Do you need Java scheduling? How about try out an easy web based UI with Quartz!

Both myschedule-2.1.2 (for Quartz-2.1.0) and myschedule-1.5.2(for Quartz-1.8.5) releases are available for download here: http://code.google.com/p/myschedule/downloads/list



I have fixed few bugs and improved the UI slightly. Both of these releases should…

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Added by Zemian Deng on September 25, 2011 at 10:24am — No Comments

Overview of the JCertif 2011 conference from The Republic of Congo

Here's a recap of what happened at the JCertif 2011 conference in Brazzaville from Chrisobel Malonga:

 

"Hello with all, I take a few minutes in order to announce to you how much JCertif 2011 of which you are the actors at summer a true success and a true human adventure which was worth the cost d' to be lived. My arrival on the spot dated August 27 m' allowed…

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Added by Michael Levin on September 19, 2011 at 8:30pm — No Comments

JCertif Congo photos!

Looks like Max uploaded some photos! Check 'em out here. All the best, Mike - see ya at the OrlandoJUG… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on September 15, 2011 at 8:28am — 2 Comments

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Article: Engineering Speed at Scale — Architectural Lessons from Sub-100-ms APIs

Sub‑100-ms APIs emerge from disciplined architecture using latency budgets, minimized hops, async fan‑out, layered caching, circuit breakers, and strong observability. But long‑term speed depends on culture, with teams owning p99, monitoring drift, managing thread pools, and treating performance as a shared, continuous responsibility.

By Saranya Vedagiri

Uber Moves from Static Limits to Priority-Aware Load Control for Distributed Storage

Uber engineers detailed how they evolved their storage platform from static rate limiting to a priority-aware load management system. The approach protects Docstore and Schemaless, Uber’s MySQL-based distributed databases, by colocating control with storage, prioritizing critical traffic, and dynamically shedding load under overload conditions.

By Leela Kumili

Building Software Organisations Where People Can Thrive

Continuous learning, adaptability, and strong support networks are the foundations for thriving teams, Matthew Card mentioned. Trust is built through consistent, fair leadership and addressing toxic behaviour, bias, and microaggressions early. By fostering growth, psychological safety, and accountability, people-first leadership drives resilience, collaboration, and performance.

By Ben Linders

Google DeepMind Introduces ATLAS Scaling Laws for Multilingual Language Models

Google DeepMind researchers have introduced ATLAS, a set of scaling laws for multilingual language models that formalize how model size, training data volume, and language mixtures interact as the number of supported languages increases.

By Robert Krzaczyński

Presentation: Foundation Models for Ranking: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned

Moumita Bhattacharya discusses the evolution of Netflix’s ranking systems, from the multi-model architecture to a Unified Contextual Recommender (UniCoRn). She explains how they built a task-agnostic User Foundation Model to capture long-term member preferences. Learn how they solve system challenges like high-throughput inference and the tradeoff between relevance and personalization.

By Moumita Bhattacharya

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