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August 28 2025, Newsletter no. 297 (this newsletter is available in html format at http://www.javaperformancetuning.com/news/news297.shtml )
As usual before a Java release, I'm listing all the new…
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ContinueHi Everyone,My publisher is running a free Amazon Kindle book promotion through Monday, August 25th, 2025. The book, “Eclipse Collections Categorically: Level up your programming game” can be obtained for $0 on Kindle on Amazon through the August 25th.…
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Vibe coding isn’t a formal technical term, but it’s become a slang or colloquial expression among programmers and tech communities—especially on social media and in creative coding circles.
What “vibe coding” usually means:
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Learning about artificial intelligence? You may find this interesting.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/you-can-now-download-the-source-code-that-sparked-the-ai-boom/
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Thanks Mike! What a blast from the past! That Red Hat swag! ;-). Jim
Thanks for the invite!
I didn't mean to make you feel bad, I know how busy you must be. It's just we could do more to promote this site. Does the twitter thingie work for you?
Thanks so much for the birthday wishes. I know it's so late getting back to you but I don't check this website very often.
Thanks for the invitation and the birthday wishes, Mike!
Thanks. I'm interested either way (either 10/25 or the rescheduled day).
Sure Mike. I can do that
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A growing body of recent research and industry commentary suggests that a shift in how organisations approach site reliability engineering is underway. Rather than handing the pager to a machine, teams are designing multi-agent AI systems that work alongside on-call engineers, narrowing the search space and automating the tedious steps while leaving judgment calls to humans.
By Matt Saunders
Hugging Face has released FineTranslations, a large-scale multilingual dataset containing more than 1 trillion tokens of parallel text across English and 500+ languages. The dataset was created by translating non-English content from the FineWeb2 corpus into English using Gemma3 27B, with the full data generation pipeline designed to be reproducible and publicly documented.
By Robert Krzaczyński
The latest Android Studio Otter feature drop introduces several new features that make it easier for developers to integrate AI-powered tools in their workflows, including the ability to set which LLM to use, enhanced agent mode through device interaction, support for natural language testing, and more.
By Sergio De Simone
Cloudflare recently shared how it manages its huge global fleet with SaltStack (Salt). They discussed the engineering tasks needed for the "grain of sand" problem. This concern is about finding one configuration error among millions of state applications. Cloudflare’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team redesigned their configuration observability.
By Claudio Masolo
Pulumi now natively supports Terraform and HCL, enabling direct HCL execution and state management within Pulumi Cloud. Currently in private beta with a Q1 2026 release, the update aids migration from legacy tools. A new financial "escape hatch" offers credits for existing HashiCorp contracts, targeting teams affected by recent licensing shifts.
By Mark Silvester
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