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Mocking Kafka for Local Spring Development

Some time ago, a former teammate of mine reached out with a very specific request: Can you add a way to mock Kafka in your app? I need something simple, just a way for me to produce messages so my app can consume them. I just don't want to spin up a real Kafka for it.

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Disney erased FiveThirtyEight

Article URL: https://www.natesilver.net/p/disney-erased-fivethirtyeight Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197703 Points: 444 # Comments: 257

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GitHub Changelog

Gemini 3.5 Flash is generally available for GitHub Copilot

Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google’s latest Flash-tier model, is now rolling out on GitHub Copilot. In our early testing, Gemini 3.5 Flash delivers near-Pro coding quality at Flash-tier speed and cost… The post Gemini 3.5 Flash is generally available for GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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Everything Google Cloud customers need to know coming out of Google I/O

At Google Cloud Next ‘26, we unveiled the blueprint for the Agentic Enterprise, sharing our eighth-generation TPUs, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a fully reimagined Agentic Data Cloud, Workspace Intelligence, and security built for the AI era.  Today at Google I/O, we’re delivering a new set of powerful AI innovations and models — and putting them directly in the hands of Google Cloud customers via Gemini Enterprise and Google Workspace: Gemini 3.5: Our latest family of models combines front

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What Google I/O '26 means for developing agents on Google Cloud

At Google I/O, we introduced a unified development toolkit featuring Antigravity 2.0 and the Managed Agents API, giving developers better ways to build locally and deploy securely to the cloud on a shared protocol layer. In this blog, we’re going to show you how Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and the new developer tools shared at I/O fit together, unpack the spectrum of choice for building, and share what we’d actually try first. Following the evolution of Vertex AI into the Gemini Enterprise

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The future of agentic development: Redefining the data practitioner lifecycle with Data Agent Kit

The modern software development landscape isn’t happening just on one surface — it’s happening across an entire ecosystem of agentic tools. Agents are being developed at an unprecedented scale, and these agents require direct access to enterprise data for context and grounding. However, the current tooling for building agents and managing data is heavily fragmented. This can make it difficult to access data, increasing security risks, and causing broken developer experiences that hinder innovati

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