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Java One 2015 happened this week. There were so many interesting sessions you could nearly throw a dart at a dartboard with topics and go to the one you selected at random. For starters, here's a link to descriptions of the keynotes. And, you can check out the session descriptions …
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I'm currently looking into big data because it's very interesting to me.
Claire Corthell published a Data Science curriculum that is like an encyclopedia. …
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Agoda’s AI Developer Report 2025 shows that AI has become a mainstream tool for developers in Southeast Asia and India, delivering real productivity gains while raising new questions about reliability, skills, and organisational readiness. Currently, it's more of a bottom-up initiative than an enterprise-orchestrated program, where developers are learning from each other or online.
By Olimpiu Pop
This week's Java roundup for December 22nd, 2025, features news highlighting: new interfaces, VaultClient and ReactiveVaultClient, in Spring Vault; point releases for LangChain4j and Seed4J; maintenance releases for Micronaut, Quarkus and Infinispan; and the second release candidate of Gradle 9.3.
By Michael Redlich
Docker has made its catalogue of more than 1,000 hardened container images freely available under an open source licence. Docker Hardened Images were previously a commercial offering launched in May 2025, but are now accessible to all developers under an Apache 2.0 licence with no restrictions on use or distribution.
By Matt Saunders
After a contentious license change and the removal of administrator functionalities from the console, the company behind the popular open-source object storage server Minio recently announced that the project will now enter maintenance mode. The change has raised discussion in the community about the need for a fork, the challenges of open source projects, and the current alternatives.
By Renato Losio
Identity and authentication services company Authress shared its strategy to stay operational during major cloud infrastructure outages like the massive October 2025 AWS outage that disrupted many major services. According to Authress CTO Warren Parad, the company's resilience architecture relies on strategies like multi-region deployment and minimizing reliance on AWS control plane services.
By Sergio De Simone
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