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Responsive Web Design? What's that? - Exploring NODE.JS
It may not adhere to the strict Java format of OJUG but was quite useful in learning more of the growing tools available to the web based developer.
Jackie Gleason answered this and unlocked other mysteries when he explained what NODE.JS was about. Including a demo where he started a .js server, Jackie showed us how to set up an Express Project Layout worked starting with NPM and yielding to his own "Hello World" page. He continued by showing us how document styled db could be…
Added by Mike Bivins on February 1, 2013 at 11:13am — No Comments
FLEX goes to Apache
Not familiar with FLEX but this article has some interesting info on it. Another tool in the web developer's toolbox?
Added by Mike Bivins on January 22, 2013 at 12:02pm — No Comments
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React Navigation 8.0 Alpha with Native Bottom Tabs, Reworked TypeScript Inference and History
React Navigation has released version 8.0 in alpha, updating its routing library for React Native and web applications. Notable changes include native bottom tabs as the default, enhanced TypeScript inference, and deep linking enabled by default. The update prioritizes stability and includes a guide for migration from version 7.x.
By Daniel CurtisGoogle Introduces Room 3.0: A Kotlin-First, Async, Multiplatform Persistence Library
Room 3.0 is a major update to Android's persistence library that introduces breaking changes in key areas. The new release focuses on modernizing Android persistence layer around Kotlin Multiplatform and expands platform support to include JavaScript and WebAssembly.
By Sergio De SimoneGrafana Rearchitects Loki with Kafka and Ships a CLI to Bring Observability Into Coding Agent
At GrafanaCON 2026 in Barcelona, Grafana Labs announced Grafana 13 with the new Loki Kafka-backed architecture at the ingestion layer and the AI Observability in Grafana Cloud to monitor and evaluate AI systems in real time. In particular, the new CLI called GCX was announced, designed to surface Grafana Cloud data inside agentic development environments.
By Claudio MasoloHow Observability and Telemetry Can Enhance the Practice of Software Engineering
Observability must evolve with serverless, event-driven architectures. OpenTelemetry can decouple telemetry from vendors, letting developers emit consistent, high-quality data that explains real system behavior. Shared vocabularies and good telemetry make debugging faster and improve reliability, speed, and developer productivity.
By Ben LindersPresentation: How to Build an Exchange: Sub Millisecond Response Times and 24/7 Uptimes in the Cloud
Frank Yu shares Coinbase’s engineering philosophy for building resilient, fair, and fast financial exchanges. He explains the power of a single-threaded architecture combined with the Raft consensus algorithm to maintain 24/7 availability. He discusses how determinism enables zero-downtime rolling deployments and the ability to replay production logs for perfect bug reproduction.
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