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Join Michael Levin in this video interview with Jonathan Schwartz, former Sun Microsystems CEO. Jonathan discusses his tenure at Sun Microsystems and his current role as CEO of a startup called Carezone. He describes Carezone as a tool that compares to Facebook and LinkedIn, but is aimed toward private circles like family. He also discusses web security, gives advice to people in developing countries who aspire to become entrepreneurs and much more. Enjoy, and please let Jonathan and I know what you think by leaving comments.
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My favorite statements:
"Markets are not measured, they are defined."
and...
"You don't find opportunities when you are looking for them, you find opportunities when you are making them."
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This week's Java roundup for January 20th, 2025 features news highlighting: JEP 502, Stable Values (Preview); Oracle's Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2025; the January 2025 release of the Payara Platform; GraalVM for JDK 23 Community 23.0.2; and BellSoft CPU patches for Liberica JDK.
By Michael RedlichHugging Face has introduced the Synthetic Data Generator, a new tool leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), that offers a streamlined, no-code approach to creating custom datasets. The tool facilitates the creation of text classification and chat datasets through a clear and accessible process, making it usable for both non-technical users and experienced AI practitioners.
By Robert KrzaczyńskiThis is a summary of a talk I gave at InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2024. I discussed the transformative potential of generative AI in enhancing developer experiences, particularly through AWS. I’ll introduce key tools like Amazon Bedrock, Code Review Assistant, Agentic Code Generation, and Code Summarization in this article.
By Olalekan ElesinThere was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of January 20th, 2025, highlighting milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring Integration and Spring Modulith.
By Michael RedlichThe Vite team recently announced Vite 6, which they labeled as a significant major release. Vite 6 introduces the Environment API, a feature that targets framework authors. With the Environment API, authors may for instance support edge deployment cases and offer a dev experience closer to that of production.
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