11. Pinterest Uses Event Time Watermarks to Finalize Petabyte Scale Data Partitions Pinterest has introduced event time-based partition finalization for its database ingestion framework. The mechanism uses Apache Flink to track event time and Apache Iceberg metada 10/19 22:37 ♡
12. JEP 543 Finalizes Structured Concurrency in JDK 28, Ending Seven Preview Rounds JDK 28 finalizes structured concurrency through JEP 543, with no API changes from JDK 27. Teams on JDK 27 only need to drop --enable-preview and recompile. Code written for JDK 25 10/19 22:30 ♡
13. Article: From Microservices to Agents: the Next Evolution of Distributed Systems The article examines the transition from microservices to agentic AI architecture in distributed systems. Microservices allow for functional decomposition, while agentic systems fo 10/19 19:00 ♡
14. Podcast: The Future of Web Apps: Will AI Agents Generate UIs on the Fly? Rachel Lee Nabors, former React core team member, dives into the architecture and philosophy behind local-first applications, exploring how small language models (SLMs) running dir 10/19 19:00 ♡
15. EmbeddingGemma 2 Expands beyond Text to Support Code, Images, Video, and Audio Based on Gemma 4 and released under the Apache 2.0 license, Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 is a compact, open-weight, multimodal embedding model designed to make semantic search and ret 10/19 18:00 ♡
