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June 2019
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…
Blog Some thoughts on licensing from Google's Chris DiBona 1 LikeNovember 2017
Hello folks,
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 LikeJune 2016
Why 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 LikeMay 2016
March 2016
The Devoxx Poland call for papers closed!
es 3/31/16.…
Blog Devoxx Poland 1 LikeNovember 2015
Matt Raible just published the slide deck to his JHipster talk. What's…
August 2015
Tutorial on Apache Spark, movie recommendations with machine learning
This post discusses building a…
March 2015
Just a reminder: Oracle plans to stop updating Java 7 in April of this year (next month).
Blog Java 7 EOL 1 LikeAs outlined in…
February 2015
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There’s a hot new…
Blog Hot New Language (Groovy) 2 LikesNovember 2013
Not 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 LikeFebruary 2013
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…
July 2012
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 LikeFebruary 2012
James 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…
Blog Buzzword Bingo 1 Like Translate Codetown to Another Language There's a new tool on Codetown that lets you translate the entire site to…
January 2012
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
Notes
Welcome to Codetown!
Codetown 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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InfoQ Reading List
QCon London: Bringing DevOps Principles to Controls and Audit
Ian Miell delivered a talk at QCon London 2025 on a modernised approach to compliance, announcing an open-source project that aims to solve many of the problems seen in the audit and compliance process. Miell highlighted that there's a disconnect between modern DevOps practices of automation and repeatability, and traditional audit and compliance procedures.
By Matt SaundersLessons on How to Get Timeouts, Retries and Idempotency Right From Sam Newman at QCon London
At QCon London, Sam Newman - the architect who has attributed the coining of the term microservices, went back to the basics to underline the three critical things to get right when working with distributed systems: timeouts, retries and idempotency. Through the talk, he provided mechanisms allowing distributed systems to be more robust.
By Olimpiu PopQCon London: Mistakes People Make Building SaaS Software
Jon Topper, AWS Ambassador and founder of The Scale Factory, shared key insights at QCon London 2025 on building effective SaaS solutions. He highlighted pitfalls, stressing the importance of multi-tenancy from day one, automating tenant provisioning, and planning disaster recovery. Topper encouraged leveraging community wisdom to avoid costly mistakes and implement secure, scalable architectures.
By Matt SaundersLessons Learned from Growing an Engineering Organization
As their organization grew, Thiago Ghisi's work as director of engineering shifted from being hands-on in emergencies to designing frameworks and delegating decisions. He suggested treating changes as experiments, documenting reorganizations, and using a wave-based communication approach to gather feedback, ensuring people feel heard and invested.
By Ben LindersQCon London 2025: Distributed Event-Driven Architectures Across Multi-Cloud Boundaries
At QCon London 2025, Teena Idnani from Microsoft addressed the rise of multi-cloud adoption, revealing that 89% of organizations embrace this strategy. Using the fictional FinBank, she showcased practical strategies to overcome latency, resilience, event ordering, and duplication challenges, emphasizing the importance of security, observability, and continuous team education.
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