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Why is my Talk selected? Reflections from a Program Committee Reviewer

Author: Soham Dasgupta Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents Speaker/Talk related reasons Organization/Program related reasons If you are like me, get the adrenaline rush of getting up on stage and can’t wait to share things that you experienced and learned, then submitting talks to conferences and local meetups excites you.But as much as you are proud and …

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JC-AI Newsletter #12

Author: Miro Wengner Original post on Foojay: Read More First of all, Happy New Year 2026! This year is designated in the Chinese Calendar as the Year of the Fire Horse (starting on February 17.). The year 2026 brings not only tremendous energy to AI development but also, in my humble opinion, many breakthroughs in the field. Although there have …

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Flaky Tests: a journey to beat them all

Author: Loic Mathieu Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents What’s a flaky test?First try: retry them all!Second try: fix them all!Third try: embrace the inevitability!Conclusion “Sleep is not a synchronization primitive.” Every test engineer, eventually What’s a flaky test? A flaky test is a test that sometimes passes and sometimes fails without any code changes. They’re the …

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BoxLang 1.9.0 Released: Production-Ready Stability and Enterprise-Grade Reliability

Author: Luis Majano Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents Production-Ready EnhancementsKey Features and Code Examples Array-Based Form Field Parsing Datasource Lifecycle Management Oracle Database Improvements Enhanced SOAP Client with Fluent API Technical SpecificationsAvailability and LicensingAbout BoxLangAbout Ortus Solutions Houston, Texas – January 2025 – Ortus Solutions, a leading innovator in professional open-source development, today announced the release …

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Not a Lucid Web3 Dream Anymore: x402, ERC-8004, A2A, and The Next Wave of AI Commerce

Author: Michal Maléř Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents Vocabulary for this article ForewordPart 1 – Bringing companies on-chain with x402Part 2- Introduction: Beyond Ads and Subscriptions: Agent Commerce on x402 and ERC-8004Part 3 – Tech that will change the internet Agent commerce, x402, and ERC-8004: from ad-funded web to paid APIs Part 4 – DayDreams.Systems: an …

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Java Warmup and the Scaling Loop Problem

Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents SummaryWhat’s actually happening during warmup?Is Java warmup actually your problem?How the scaling loop worksSolution 1: Give the compiler more resourcesSolution 2: Lower the compilation thresholdSolution 3: ReadyNow to learn once and start fast foreverSolution 4: Optimizer Hub as the full solution Cloud Native Compiler ReadyNow Orchestrator Setting it …

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JAVA & JAKARTA EE AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE CLOUD WITH NANOS UNIKERNEL

Author: Angelo Rubini Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents The Future of Computing OnCloud OnPrem OnEdge of Java Is Already Here! The evolution of the Java and Jakarta Enterprise ecosystem is converging toward an increasingly simple, efficient, and scalable architecture that improves security, delivers higher performance, and reduces hardware and infrastructure costs. VMs vs Containers vs UnikernelsThe …

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Optimizing Java for the Cloud-Native Era with Quarkus

Author: Michal Maléř Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents IntroWhat does Quarkus have to offer? Developer joy with live coding and dev mode Cost efficiency and performance Reactive at its core Which of your current development pains could Quarkus solve? Dev Services Vast extension ecosystem “OK, I would like to try it, but is it easy enough …

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Quarkus: A Runtime and Framework for Cloud-Native Java

Author: Michal Maléř Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents Why Quarkus stands out?Quarkus as a versatile framework Simplified developer experience Performance that matters Security Observability and control surfaces Modular and production-ready Building your stack with Quarkus Conclusion Quarkus: A Runtime and Framework for Cloud-Native Java Public clouds such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, and platforms …

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