October 2013 Blog Posts (5)

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Java Spotlight Episode 150: James Gosling on Java

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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Added by Michael Levin on October 31, 2013 at 11:23am — No Comments

Healthcare Secretary Sibelius discusses Healthcare.gov

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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Added by Michael Levin on October 31, 2013 at 7:46am — No Comments

JavaOne 2013 Sessions

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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Added by Michael Levin on October 31, 2013 at 6:30am — No Comments

What's Up With www.healthcare.gov?

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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Added by Michael Levin on October 25, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

vJUG: One small step for JUGs, one giant leap for JUG-kind

What's the problem?



I love community, networking and interactions with other geeks, that's why I married one! :) The greatest thing about Java User Groups (JUGs) isn't just the great content, but also the close knit community, the beers and chatting/networking with like-minded geeks talking tech and sharing ideas. I’m an active leader of the LJC (London JUG) and speak at events as well as organiser for the LJC Open Conference (Happening this Nov 23rd ;) ). I've actually… Continue

Added by Simon Maple on October 11, 2013 at 10:00am — 4 Comments

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Presentation: When Every Bit Counts: How Valkey Rebuilt Its Hashtable for Modern Hardware

Madelyn Olson discusses the evolution of Valkey's data structures, moving away from "textbook" pointer-chasing HashMaps to more cache-aware designs. She explains the implementation of "Swedish" tables to maximize memory density. She shares insights on systems intuition, memory prefetching, and the rigorous testing needed for mission-critical caches.

By Madelyn Olson

Istio Evolves for the AI Era with Multicluster, Ambient Mode, and Inference Capabilities

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced a major evolution of Istio, introducing new capabilities aimed at making service meshes “future-ready” for AI-driven workloads.

By Craig Risi

Article: Bloom Filters: Theory, Engineering Trade‑offs, and Implementation in Go

This article walks you through the Go implementation of Bloom filters to optimize the performance of a recommender. It cover the architectural view, Bloom filter mechanics, Go integration, parameter tuning, and practical lessons learned from making it work under production constraints.

By Gabor Koos

Google Open Sources Experimental Multi-Agent Orchestration Testbed Scion

Designed to manage concurrent agents running in containers across local and remote compute, Scion is an experimental orchestration testbed that enables developers to run groups of specialized agents with isolated identities, credentials, and shared workspaces.

By Sergio De Simone

Anthropic Accidentally Exposes Claude Code Source via npm Source Map File

Anthropic's Claude Code CLI had its full TypeScript source exposed after a source map file was accidentally included in version 2.1.88 of its npm package. The 512,000-line codebase was archived to GitHub within hours. Anthropic called it a packaging error caused by human error. The leak revealed unreleased features, internal model codenames, and multi-agent orchestration architecture.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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