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We've closed the first round of applications for the Scalar Call for Papers!

🐠 Sign up for the Scalar newsletter: mailchi.mp/ec0680da12c1... to stay up to date with all the conference news!

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November 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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FinTech extends far beyond modern banking. Here are some niches we support:
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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As a #Kafka Admin, we bet you know some of those:

1️⃣ Suboptimal thread configuration
2️⃣ Missing in-transit encryption
3️⃣ Insufficient replication margin
4️⃣ JVM heap size misconfiguration
5️⃣ Hidden production errors in logs

➡️ Grab the details from
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November 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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AI coding assistants can save hours when building Rust backends and React frontends. But they still need human eyes: duplicated code, bad type handling… even failed to center a div 😅

Enjoy the read! 👇
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November 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Ever wondered what really happens when your Java code runs? In the latest deep dive, we explore how the JVM translates bytecode into rapid machine instructions through interpreters, JIT compilers, and multiple tiers (C1, C2, and beyond).

Read the full story:
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November 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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🎧 Beyond the Commit Podcast is live!

Produced by VirtusLab and SoftwareMill, the very first episode is now available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon, and Apple Podcasts.

🔗 You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcYZ...

#TechTalk #TechPodcast #BeyondTheCommit
Beyond the Commit, Episode 1: Michal Janoušek
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November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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🎧 Beyond the Commit premieres tomorrow at 3 PM!

In the launch episode, Paweł Dolega sits down with Michal Janoušek to chart the twists and turns of a software engineering career; from hands-on coding to strategic leadership.

Catch the trailer now and get ready to tune in! 🎙️

#BtC #CTO #Podcast
November 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Scalar on Tour rusza dalej - w tym tygodniu będziemy w Łodzi! 🛶

Już 6 listopada spotkacie naszych ekspertów - Sebastiana opowiadającego o tajnikach GraphQL i Magdalenę dzielącą się wskazówkami o asertywnej komunikacji!

Więcej informacji i zapisy: www.meetup.com/pl-pl/java-u...

Do zobaczenia! 👋
November 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Confluent Stretched Cluster 2.5 introduces powerful mechanisms to enhance cross-datacenter resilience while reducing operational complexity. See how replication factor and min.insync.replicas impact the availability and fault tolerance of such an architecture.
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Understanding in-sync replicas and replication factor in Confluent Stretched Cluster 2.5
Learn how insync replicas, replication factor, and observers improve data durability and failover in Confluent Stretched Cluster 2.5 vs. open-source Kafka.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Meet Beyond the Commit, your new go-to for unfiltered, real-world engineering stories.

Ready to listen? 🔊 We launch on November 5th!

Stay tuned for more details in the coming days.

#BeyondTheCommit #TechPodcast #CTO #RealTalk
October 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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We’re remote-first, async-friendly, and built around what devs actually care about. And we are hiring.

🔗Senior DevOps Engineer: softwaremill.com/join-us/seni...

🔗Senior Scala Developer: softwaremill.com/join-us/seni...

#HiringNow #ITJobs
October 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Big congrats to our Software Engineer Michał Zyga - now officially a JUGmajster! 🏆 His talk on cutting Java startup time won Best JUG Talk at JDD! ☕🔥

📖 His full article on that topic is here:
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#JDD #Java #SoftwareEngineering
October 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Yesterday's AWS us-east-1 region outage caused significant disruptions to many services and apps on the internet.

Learn how to build a highly available, multi-regional scheduler using AWS services, ensuring at least one delivery policy for critical workflows 👇

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Building a multi-regional, highly available scheduler with AWS
How to build a highly available, multiregional scheduler using AWS services, ensuring at least one delivery policy for critical workflows.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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We are thrilled to announce we are building KafkaPilot, a proactive tool designed to diagnose and resolve common issues in Apache Kafka.

🔗 KafkaPilot explained: softwaremill.com/kafkapilot-u...

#KafkaPilot #ApacheKafka #Kafka #DevTools
October 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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As an official #ScyllaDB partner, we help IT leaders design and deliver scalable systems that unlock the full potential of ScyllaDB’s performance, efficiency, and architecture.

🔗 Let’s talk about how we can support your next leap: softwaremill.com/services/par...

#Data #Architecture #Scalability
October 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Looking for a job that respects your craft? Check out our open roles.

🔗 Senior Scala Developer: softwaremill.com/join-us/seni...
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#DevJobs #RemoteWork #HiringNow #DevOps #Scala
October 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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One misstep in code can cost trust, data, and money.
That’s why we’ve partnered with Aikido – to help teams bake security into their software from day one.
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#CyberSecurity #SoftwareDevelopment #Aikido
Building Secure Businesses: We’re a Certified Aikido Partner
Discover how SoftwareMill’s certified Aikido partnership helps businesses strengthen security, ensure compliance, and innovate with confidence.
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October 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Continuing our series, in This Month We AIed #2, Olaf Krawczyk tested Claude Code agents by giving them almost the same prompts but with different expertise 🤔

You can read about his handy experiment conclusions at the VirtusLab blog: virtuslab.com/blog/ai/ai-s...

#tmwai #ai #aiagents #claudeai
October 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Do you also appreciate autonomy, growth, and balance? Check out our open roles!

1⃣ Sr DevOps Engineer: softwaremill.com/join-us/seni...

2⃣ Senior Scala Dev: softwaremill.com/join-us/seni...

3⃣ Senior Rust Dev: softwaremill.com/join-us/seni...

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October 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Cline’s new Focus Chains and Context Summarization features transform how developers work with large codebases. Artur Skowroński tested them on his NES emulator. The results you can see in our latest issue of This Month We AIed: virtuslab.com/blog/ai/ai-s...

#tmwai #cursorAI #aiagents #ai #llm
October 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Built for mission-critical use cases, Apache Cassandra ensures your applications are up and running without ever losing a single byte.

In the right hands, such a powerful tool can provide real benefits - leverage Cassandra with our experts 👉 sml.io/cassandra and grow!

#bigdata #datamanagement
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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What makes a dev team extraordinary?

It's not magic 🔮. It's leadership rooted in five essential skills: Trust. Courage. Engagement. Co-responsibility. Outcome.

🔗 If you care about building teams that actually work, this one's for you: softwaremill.com/business-ins...

#Leadership #Dev #RemoteWork
October 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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We've just opened the call for papers for Scalar and Rustikon!

It's time for your step - rock the stage at one of our conferences! Submit your talk and join the lineup!

You can find links to the Call for Papers in the comments to this post 👇
October 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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How to modernize FinTech systems? 💰

Tip: Use feature toggles

Feature toggles are your best friend. They allow you to instantly turn functionality on or off, making it easier to test in production and roll back without redeploying.

🔗 Visit our blog for more hints: softwaremill.com/business-ins...
October 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Although the AI companion is a significant, positive change in developers’ work, with great power comes great responsibility.

Check out the latest issue of This Month We AIed: virtuslab.com/blog/ai/ai-s... and discover what ​​experiment inspired Marcin to such reflections 🤔

#cursorAI #aiagents
October 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM