The second episode of Beyond the Commit 🎙️ goes live next Wednesday! This time our host, Pawel Dolega, welcomes Gilberto Taccari, for a conversation about the role of the CTO, tech recruitment, and the FinTech industry. Be sure to catch it! 🫵 #BeyondTheCommit #FinTech #CTO #TechRecruitment

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Is vibe coding a mobile app a good idea? Jakub decided to give it a try 🔎 Discover what went well, what didn't make sense, and what the overall process was like in issue 3 of the This Month We AIed series: virtuslab.com/blog/ai/our-... #tmwai #ai #aiagents #claudeai

What’s the ideal team size for peak performance? And how do you manage it effectively? If you haven’t tuned in yet, now’s the time! Catch the full episode of Beyond the Commit podcast on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, or Apple Podcasts ➡️ Here you'll find all the links: beyondthecommitpodcast.com

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! 🎟️ Don't have a ticket yet? Visit www.scalar-conf.com/tickets and buy one before the price goes up.

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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 @kgrajek.bsky.social: softwaremill.com/5-common-kaf...

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! 👇 virtuslab.com/blog/ai/our-...

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: softwaremill.com/the-long-jou...

🎧 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 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

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! 👋

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. softwaremill.com/understandin...

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

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

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: softwaremill.com/how-to-impro... #JDD #Java #SoftwareEngineering

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 👇 softwaremill.com/building-a-m...

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

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

Looking for a job that respects your craft? Check out our open roles. 🔗 Senior Scala Developer: softwaremill.com/join-us/seni... 🔗 Senior DevOps Engineer: softwaremill.com/join-us/seni... 🔗 Senior Product Designer: softwaremill.com/join-us/seni... #DevJobs #RemoteWork #HiringNow #DevOps #Scala

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. 🔗 softwaremill.com/business-ins... #CyberSecurity #SoftwareDevelopment #Aikido

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

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... 4⃣ Sr Product Designer: softwaremill.com/join-us/seni...

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

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

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

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 👇

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...

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

In October, you will have another chance to meet our experts! Here's where 👇 🔹 The Scala Workshop: Adam Warski 🔹 The Hack Summit: Sebastian Rabiej 🔹 Kielce JUG meetup: Michał Zyga 🔹 JDD 2025: Rafał Maciak, Sebastian Rabiej, Michał Zyga 🔹 Toruń JUG meetup: Sebastian Rabiej

We’ve become a certified partner of Aikido 🎉 An all-in-one, developer-friendly security platform that protects software from code to cloud. For our clients, this means stronger security foundations & smoother innovation. 👉 softwaremill.com/services/sof... #CyberSecurity #Security #CloudSecurity

Is resistance to change slowing down your IT project velocity? 📉 💡 We share the 8-step framework we used to help our client navigate transformation, from building internal consensus to leveraging CI/CD and Feature Flags. 🔗 What's essential in IT change management: softwaremill.com/business-ins...

With the just-released #Java 25, we have the opportunity to test the fifth preview of structured concurrency APIs. However, creating such an API is not that easy... 🔗 Read more in the latest blogpost by @warski.org : softwaremill.com/critique-of-... #Java25 #StructuredConcurrency #JEP505

GCP is more than just infrastructure. Beyond migration and hosting, it offers tools for data analytics, AI & automation that can transform your business. Read how you can maximize performance while keeping costs under control. softwaremill.com/services/end... #GoogleCloud #DevOps #BusinessGrowth

Traditional ORMs are slowing you down. ⏳ There’s a new TypeScript-native ORM that’s: ⚡ Faster at scale 🔍 More transparent 🧩 Surprisingly lightweight We've put together 5 reasons why devs are switching - and why you might too. 👉 softwaremill.com/5-reasons-to... #TypeScript #ORM #SQL #DrizzleORM

Looking for custom-made LLM solutions? 🤔 Our experts will guide you from concept to deployment, ensuring your AI strategy delivers tangible results. 🏆 🔗 Let's chat about your project: softwaremill.com/services/llm... #LLM #AI #LLMs

Dive into real-world Java exploit breakdowns! 👉 youtube.com/playlist?lis... Java Crack of the Week is a series where we break down the most critical Java vulnerabilities and share developers' tips on how to avoid such risks or fix potential issues. #java #javacrackoftheweek #jvm #springcloud

Time for another round of AI experiments in This Month We AIed! 🔥 👉 virtuslab.com/blog/ai/ai-s... In this issue, Jakub Gogolewski, Artur Skowroński, Olaf Krawczyk & Marcin Baraniecki used AI tools to stress-test some patterns - see how it turned out! #thismonthweaied #ai #aitools #aiagents

🛎️ Imagine this: You arrive at a hotel after a long drive, ready to relax. But the front desk can’t check you in because the Internet is down. Is this the best we can do? Can we build smarter, more resilient tech? @warski.org explores this in his latest blog post: softwaremill.com/local-second...

AI is a driving force entering and revolutionizing ever-increasing areas of life 💡 Explore the comprehensive AI terms glossary prepared by our Senior Machine Learning Engineer, available now on the VirtusLab blog: virtuslab.com/blog/ai/ai-g... #ai #artificialintelligence #llm #machinelearning

💡 Looking for #AI tips for devs? Artur Skowroński shares valuable lessons on LLM capacity planning, including using various tools to manage costs and prevent billing surprises. 🔗 Grab the link: virtuslab.com/blog/ai/this... Stay tuned for more insights from our new series, "This Month We AIed".

The work on JEP-505 led to the official introduction of structured concurrency in Java 25. That’s why we’ve refreshed our definitive guide on Structured Concurrency and Scoped Values. 🔗 Check out the updated article now: softwaremill.com/structured-c... #Java #JEP505 #StructuredConcurrency #Java25

🚨 As you may already know, a critical npm supply chain #attack was reported yesterday. ➡️ What happened? Several of popular npm packages were compromised, including #debug and #chalk among the "biggest ones" 🔗 See the full analysis & list of major affected libraries: www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-deb...

Don’t have time to hire a full-time CTO? Use Fractional CTO services. ✅ Instant senior tech leadership ✅ Scalable roadmap ✅ Faster product delivery ✅ No full-time commitment Read more: softwaremill.com/services/fra... #FractionalCTO #StartupGrowth #CTOasAService #SoftwareDevelopment

Rather than investing time in manually creating complex data extraction logic and parsing patterns, Mateusz Gołąbek used an AI assistant to quickly develop precise log analysis scripts 💪 Read the first issue of "This Month We Aied" 👉 virtuslab.com/blog/ai/this...

Just 2 weeks ago, our experts performed on the Scala Days stage, and in March we will meet again at the Scalar Conference! 🐠 📅 Save the date: March 26-27, 2026 🎟️ Get your Super Early Bird ticket - available only until September 7th: www.scalar-conf.com/tickets #scalarconference #scala

#Hiring 🚨 We’re hiring a senior kotlin developer to build complex, distributed systems. If you value clean code, solid design, and solving challenges that truly test your skills, this is the role for you. 🔗 Apply & find more open roles here: softwaremill.com/join-us/ #kotlin #devjobs #recruiting

Did you know that we launched the "This Month We AIed" series, initiated by our co-founder, Adam Warski? 💡 In the first issue, you can read about one of his AI experiments that inspired this new project 👉 virtuslab.com/blog/ai/this... #ai #llm #bootzooka #vibecoding

Hey, Java enthusiasts! ☕ Curious about what's coming in #Java25? We've put together an in-depth article to explain JEP 502: Stable Values, a new feature slated for the upcoming LTS release in September. ➡️ Enjoy your reading: softwaremill.com/jep-502-stab... #Java #JEP502 #TechUpdate #Programming

We replaced Google Translation & Sentiment APIs with a single LLM-powered microservice (built on Gemini AI). ✅ Lower costs ✅ Simpler architecture ✅ More flexibility Full article 👉 softwaremill.com/cutting-cost... #AI #LLM #Microservices #Cloud #Innovation