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Interview with James Gosling, father of Java and Java Champion, on the history of Java, his work at Liquid Robotics, Netbeans, the future of Java and what he sees as the next revolutionary trend in the computer industry.
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Here's more on the www.healthcare.gov website issues:
From the NYTimes:
"Kathleen Sebelius, the health and human services secretary, gave an opening statement at a House hearing on the troubled rollout of HealthCare.gov."
Here's a link to a video about what to watch for in the proceedings: …
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60 or so sessions are now available with more to come:
http://www.oracle.com/javaone/sessions/index.html
Thanks to Joe for the link (Jaxjug)…
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Healthcare.gov - What's up with it? Yes, the politics are interesting, but from a software development perspective, the SDLC and issues with www.healthcare.gov are fascinating! Check out the interview with John…
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Uber recently described an internal architecture for propagating identity across multi-agent AI workflows. The design aims to perserve user context, agent provenance, and scoped access as agents delegate work and call internal tools. The case study aligns with Auth0’s view that AI agents need permissions based on delegated authority, scoped credentials, and explicit human approval boundaries.
By Eran Stiller
Aditya Kumarakrishnan explains how to move past the "amnesia phase" of AI. He shares a blueprint for engineering leaders to build modular agent frameworks using CoALA, leverage decades of process science for scalable workflows, and "terraform" legacy environments into robust, event-sourced artifacts capable of handling unpredictable, cross-functional agent demands.
By Aditya Kumarakrishnan
GitHub has introduced the GitHub Copilot app, a desktop control centre for agent-native development that aims to keep engineers in charge while AI agents handle more coding work. Mario Rodriguez writes on the GitHub blog that the recent wave of coding agents has brought faster delivery but also "disjointed workflows, more context switching, and too much time spent reviewing agent-generated code".
By Matt Saunders
Paul Klein discusses the distributed systems challenges of scaling cloud-hosted browser infra for AI agents. He explains how to manage bursty, stateful multi-tenancy and secure Chromium environments against remote code execution using Firecracker. He also shares how to leverage the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to turn complex websites into accessible agentic tools.
By Paul Klein
Coinbase has published a detailed postmortem of its May 7, 2026, outage, revealing how a localized cooling failure inside an AWS data center escalated into a multi-hour disruption that halted nearly all trading activity across the cryptocurrency exchange
By Craig Risi
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