December 2012 Blog Posts (5)

What was the coolest software related event that you were a part of this year?

What was the coolest software related event that you were a part of this year? I mean either coding a feature, product or an actual event.

Added by Michael Levin on December 24, 2012 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment

VizMontaaze

Hi all,

Recently I uploaded an Android Application named VizMontaaze on Google Play. The link is here:

http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.photos.phrenzo.

VizMontaaze is a new word so it may be difficult for the users to find this application on the market.

The…

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Added by Shubham Aggarwal on December 10, 2012 at 11:30pm — 4 Comments

How to Get Business using Social Media

You can use the social API's to get new customers. One way is with Twitter's API. You can filter tweets for keywords and then friend the tweeters. That's what's happening when you tweet something and then you get followed by someone of that special interest.

I tweeted something yesterday about birds. Today, I found I was followed by @artmagenta, an artist who draws…

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Added by Michael Levin on December 9, 2012 at 9:52am — No Comments

A Realistic Look at Tech in Africa

SeneJUG 2007 Kickoff

 

 

Attention, people interested in technology in Africa.

 

This article is much more realistic than most of the…

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Added by Michael Levin on December 8, 2012 at 11:30am — No Comments

The Future of GWT Report

This report on GWT, "The Future of GWT", will be interesting to developers, architects and managers, too. You'll learn details about GWT's usability, its competitors and even opinions as to how it's going to stand up against Dart.

Over 1300 respondents provided data. Overall, GWT is looked upon highly by…

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Added by Michael Levin on December 4, 2012 at 4:00pm — No Comments

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Presentation: Confidently Automating Changes Across a Diverse Fleet

Netflix engineer Casey Bleifer shares how to achieve rapid, automated code changes across a massive, diverse software fleet. She discusses building an event-driven orchestration platform using composable, Lego-like steps, and explains how Netflix utilizes automated canary validation, compliance checks, and a custom "confidence metric" to eliminate the long tail of manual engineering migrations.

By Casey Bleifer

IBM Vault Enterprise 2.0 Brings Automated LDAP Secrets Management to Enterprise Identity Security

IBM and HashiCorp have announced new LDAP secrets management capabilities in IBM Vault Enterprise 2.0, introducing a redesigned architecture to manage LDAP credentials, support password rotation, and automate the identity lifecycle.

By Craig Risi

Microsoft Foundry Adds Runtime, Tooling, and Governance for Production Agents

Microsoft used their Build 2026 event to announce new functionality for Microsoft Foundry. Citing Foundry as "the place where AI agents move from experiments to production systems," in a blog post, Nick Brady writes that the release brings “runtime, tools, memory, grounding, models, observability, and governance” that developers need for production agents, rather than just new model endpoints.

By Matt Saunders

AWS Releases Next Generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless

Amazon Web Services has recently announced the general availability of the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, with a redesigned architecture that enables 20 times faster resource provisioning than the previous serverless architecture, true scale-to-zero capability, and up to 60% lower cost than a provisioned cluster for peak loads.

By Gianmarco Nalin

Pinterest Uses Content Fingerprints for URL Deduplication across Millions of Domains

Pinterest introduced MIQPS, a URL normalization system that identifies which query parameters affect page identity using rendered content fingerprints. It reduces duplicate processing across millions of domains by replacing rule-based approaches with offline analysis, anomaly detection, and runtime parameter maps, improving ingestion efficiency and scalability in large-scale content pipelines.

By Leela Kumili

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