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Chris DiBona is the director of open source at Google, and he's been taking a big part in the open source and Free software ecosystem for a very long time--not least in his role with Google's…
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Want to hear about new Java APIs and some of the decisions made at the recent…
Blog Let's talk about new Java APIs! 1 LikeWhy use Amazon's container service?
We all experience a common set of tasks when working in IT shops. Someone gets delegated…
Blog Why use Amazon EC2 (AWS) Container Services (Docker) 1 LikeMatt Raible just published the slide deck to his JHipster talk. What's…
Blog Get Hip With JHipster ... and a free book! 2 Likes Lamine Ba and Mike Levin head to Google HQ photo Lamine Ba and Mike Levin head to Google HQ 1 LikeThis post discusses building a…
Just a reminder: Oracle plans to stop updating Java 7 in April of this year (next month).
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Blog Hot New Language (Groovy) 2 LikesNot familiar with FLEX but this article has some interesting info on it. Another tool in the web developer's toolbox?…
Blog FLEX goes to Apache 1 LikeIt 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…
Gerrit Grunwald, aka @hansolo_ on twitter, has just ported his Swing based gauges and meters framework known as …
Blog JavaFX and SteelSeries gauges using FXML 1 LikeJames Ward gave a great presentation on Heroku. The server of choice for Facebook developement. He commented on some attendees not being familiar with all the buzzwords he used. So we thought…
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Blog Translate Codetown to Another Language 1 LikeCodetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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Wenjie Zi of Grammarly addressed the high failure rates in machine learning at QCon SF 2024, revealing challenges from misaligned business goals to poor data quality. She advocated for a "fail fast" approach and robust MLOps infrastructure, emphasizing that learning from failures can drive success. Clear objectives and rigorous practices are essential for effective implementation.
By Andrew HoblitzellAt QConSF 2024, Cody Yu presented how Anyscale’s Ray can more effectively handle scaling out batch inference. Some of the problems Ray can assist with include scaling large datasets (hundreds of GBs or more), ensuring reliability with spot and on-demand instances, managing multi-stage heterogeneous compute, and managing tradeoffs with cost and latency.
By Andrew HoblitzellAt QCon SF 2024, Faye Zhang gave a talk titled Search: from Linear to Multiverse, covering three trends and techniques in AI-powered search: multi-modal interaction, personalization, and simulation with AI agents.
By Anthony AlfordThe WildFly community announced the latest release of WildFly 34, emphasizing the significant changes made to the WildFly Preview. Including support for Jakarta Data 1.0, MicroProfile REST Client 4.0, and MicroProfile Telemetry 2.0. Other minor updates include ORM 6.6.x, Hibernate search 7.2, and FasterXML Jackson 2.17.
By Shaaf SyedAWS has announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database, a relational database designed to provide automated horizontal scaling. This new option can handle millions of write transactions per second and manage petabytes of data, all within a single database environment.
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