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February 2012
There's a new tool on Codetown that lets you translate the entire site to…
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November 2011
http://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/new_java_champion_michael_levin Blog Mike Levin ::: Java Champion 2 Likes
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September 2011
Here's a recap of what happened at the JCertif 2011 conference in Brazzaville…
August 2011
The month of July was a global gathering for all Java Communities around the…
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Java 7 Launch events in Africa (photos)!!
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June 2011
March 2011
Hi folks,
It's been a while since last time I post here. I just want to share a project that I have started recently and hopefully it will benefit some of you.
In…
Blog My latest personal project 1 LikeHappy 10th year, JCertif!
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QConAI NY 2025 - Designing AI Platforms for Reliability: Tools for Certainty, Agents for Discovery
Aaron Erickson at QCon AI NYC 2025 emphasized treating agentic AI as an engineering challenge, focusing on reliability through the blend of probabilistic and deterministic systems. He argued for clear operational structures to minimize risks and optimize performance, highlighting the importance of specialized agents and deterministic paths to enhance accuracy and control in AI workflows.
By Andrew HoblitzellGoogle Metrax Brings Predefined Model Evaluation Metrics to JAX
Recently open-sourced by Google, Metrax is a JAX library providing standardized, performant metrics implementations for classification, regression, NLP, vision, and audio models.
By Sergio De SimoneAWS Introduces Regional Availability for NAT Gateway
AWS has recently introduced regional availability for the managed NAT Gateway service. The new capability allows developers to create a single NAT Gateway that automatically spans multiple availability zones (AZs) in a VPC, providing high availability, eliminating the need to define separate gateways and public subnets in each zone.
By Renato LosioDecathlon Switches to Polars to Optimize Data Pipelines and Infrastructure Costs
Decathlon, one of the world's leading sports retailers, recently shared why it adopted the open source library Polars to optimize its data pipelines. The Decathlon Digital team found that migrating from Apache Spark to Polars for small input datasets provides significant speed and cost savings.
By Renato LosioAWS Expands Well-Architected Framework with Responsible AI and Updated ML and Generative AI Lenses
At AWS re:Invent 2025, AWS expanded its Well-Architected Framework with a new Responsible AI Lens and updated Machine Learning and Generative AI Lenses. The updates provide guidance on governance, bias mitigation, scalable ML workflows, and trustworthy AI system design across the full AI lifecycle.
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