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Re:Guava: Google core libraries for Java on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @04:36PM (#38197447)
That, and also when caffeine came out it replaced one of the major uses (caching) of guava.

https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine

Re:A response to the git.centos.org changes on Monday June 26, 2023 @06:13PM (#36486593)
There is an opportunity here for Amazon to take some of this goodwill IBM/Red Hat is losing. Make Amazon Linux run nicely outside of AWS with (free) LTS. Charge for support for those who need it.

When Oracle messed with Java LTS AWS did Corretto LTS. When Elastic did Elasticsearch license change, Amazon/AWS did Opensearch.

They don't need to support esoteric hardware (at least other than their own).

Re:Using Redundant Conditions to Unlock Indexes in MySQL on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @03:50PM (#36232521)
Yeah, I would think functional/function-based indexes should be mentioned. Add an index or add a redundant column? Almost all of time I would prefer the index.

Of course if your database can't be changed then maybe you can use this trick if there is already a suitable indexed column.

Re:We Are Changing the License for Akka on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @02:54PM (#32754787)
Yeah, or spring (vmware), or guava (google), or react (facebook), or dozens of other common dependencies.

Thankfully I have managed to avoid Akka in our products but the precedent being set here is worrisome.

Self-hosted full Atlassian stack (jira, confluence, bamboo, bitbucket) for 6+ years. ~200k tickets. To be honest, it just runs with minimal issues.

Mostly downtime is just upgrades. I can remember a few times we've had to add (JVM) memory as our usage increased. Not sure what we're going to do with the discontinuation of server product line. We self-host to keep source code, etc. more than one configuration mistake (or zero-day) away from exposing it to the world.

Re:Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years on Thursday January 06, 2022 @03:21PM (#29829467)
I'm sure that is some of it. I'd certainly be happier having my problem solved in 30 seconds rather than waiting in a queue for even 5 minutes.
Re:Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years on Thursday January 06, 2022 @03:09PM (#29829284)
Having worked on conversational AI (virtual agents/chatbots) for over a half a decade now, I can say that there are large differences in the capabilities of the solutions and the quality of implementations. Some are just bad and unhelpful. Some are very good. I'm personally familiar with several voice deployments doing millions of calls a month. Not only are there obvious cost savings but the calls handled (entirely) by the virtual agents get better average cust sat metrics than human agents on the same set of calls. The first time I saw that I was surprised, but, now it is pretty typical. They absolutely can be helpful even if they are still not near to passing the Turing test.
Re:How much faster is Java 17? on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @05:05PM (#28544325)
>Oracle will provide these free releases and updates starting with Oracle JDK 17 and continue for one full year after the next LTS release. Prior versions are not affected by this change.

So, if that had applied to 11, it would lose updates from Oracle in 1 year from now. Whereas something like Corretto is currently committed to Java 11 updates until 2027 [0].

They seem to also be planning to increase frequency of LTS to every 2 years, so, basically assuming you upgrade to next LTS immediately (unlikely in any moderately complex app with deps) you have 3 years of free updates.

No thanks.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/08/amazon-co...

Re:Working Group Last Call: QUIC protocol drafts on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @03:47PM (#23481233)
In fact AWS ALB does not even support HTTP/2 on the backends which is really annoying.