Codetown ::: a software developer's community
May 28, 2015 from 6pm to 9pm – Canvs This month, we welcome Ken Krueger for a talk on Spring Boot. Ken was here last year and that's the picture of our group that night. Meeting Overview: This session will introduce Spring Boot, discus… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
June 25, 2015 from 6pm to 9pm – Canvs This month we'll meet again at Canvs. We had a fantastic time last month. Ken Krueger gave a great presentation on Spring Boot. Several new folks showed up. What a super venue. I wrote up a littl… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
September 24, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm – Canvs This month we'll have a presentation on the Google Web Toolkit! Google Web Toolkit (GWT), used by Google internally on some of their biggest applications, is growing and quite good. Learn about the… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
October 22, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm – Canvs Hello OrlandoJUG! This month I will be in San Francisco for Java One, Oracle's annual Java conference. Fortunately, Alex Buckles and Gregg Groves will be here to lead the meeting. Thanks, guys! Our t… Organized by Alex Buckles & Greg Groves | Type: meeting
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Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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Platform engineering has to be approached from a socio-technical perspective, and shaped by all stakeholders, not just developers, Sergiu Petean said in his talk Driving the Future of Insurance through Platform Engineering. Platform success depends on written principles that endure change while embracing change as the main design force, to enable teams to build, run, and release software.
By Ben Linders
Cloudflare announced Agent Memory in private beta, a managed service that extracts structured memories from AI agent conversations and retrieves them on demand using five-channel parallel retrieval with Reciprocal Rank Fusion. Shared memory profiles let teams of agents access common knowledge. Competitors include Mem0, Zep, LangMem, and Letta.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Meta has already begun preparing for the threats posed by quantum computing and migrating its systems to post-quantum cryptography, a complex process that will take multiple years to complete. In a recent article, Meta researchers outline their strategy and share key lessons learned along the way.
By Sergio De Simone
Jimmy Morzaria discusses the evolution of Stripe’s database tier to support 5 million QPS with 5.5 nines of reliability. He explains the architecture of DocDB and shares how Stripe leverages a custom zero-downtime data movement platform to perform horizontal sharding, version upgrades, and multi-tenant migrations - all while maintaining the strict consistency required for global commerce.
By Jimmy Morzaria
Dropbox recently explained how it improved storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, the company's internal immutable blob store for storing user files at scale, by redesigning compaction strategies to reclaim space from severely underfilled storage volumes. The system now periodically reorganizes valid data into new volumes, allowing old, partially used ones to be cleared and reused.
By Renato Losio
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