Codetown ::: a software developer's community
August 23, 2018 from 6pm to 8pm – Starter Studio This month we welcome Edson Yanaga as our speaker. Edson will give a talk he calls Revisiting Effective Java. You can get there at 6 for pizza and the presentation will begin at 7. Revisi… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
November 15, 2018 from 6pm to 8pm – Starter Studio Howdy Java Enthusiasts! We have a great presentation coming up next Thursday, 11/15. Hope you can make it. Be sure to RSVP! Docker and Gradle Docker combined with some modest JVM t… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
January 22, 2019 from 6pm to 8pm – Starter Studio Howdy Java Enthusiasts! We have a great presentation coming up. Hope you can make it. Be sure to RSVP! You choose...we're making arrangements right now: "Reactive for the Impatient" (a survey… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: jug
March 7, 2019 from 6pm to 8pm – Starter Studio Hello Java Enthusiasts! You're in for a treat! We have a great presentation coming up, Here are the details. Programming Platform Growth: Table Stakes or Deal Makes? This talk dr… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meetup
June 21, 2019 from 6pm to 8pm – Starter Studio Jim Clarke will give a talk on how to succeed at this test. He was one of the authors! Organized by Michael Levin | Type: presentation
July 25, 2019 from 6pm to 8pm – Starter Studio Join us for a Reactive Spring talk featuring Miguel Mendez. Miguel Mendez is a software engineer from Orlando Florida. He currently works for FlexEngage as a Lead Developer. With more than 20 y… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: ojug, meetup
August 22, 2019 from 6pm to 8pm – Starter Studio Join us for a Git presentation featuring RustyRusty Phillips has been a polyglot developer for over 20 years (and Java to some degree during all of that time), and has spent that time special… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meetup
January 23, 2020 from 6pm to 8pm – Starter Studio Join us for a talk featuring Richard Thibault Richard Thibault is a full-stack web and mobile developer with over 25 years of experience in the software industry. He is currently focused on Java a… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meetup
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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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Cloudflare recently introduced its Gen 13 servers, marking a shift in how its network handles traffic. Instead of relying on large CPU caches for speed, the company redesigned its software to leverage many more processor cores working in parallel in its latest AMD-based servers.
By Renato Losio
Yelp has completed a large-scale upgrade of its Apache Cassandra infrastructure, spanning more than 1,000 nodes, without any service downtime, offering a blueprint for managing stateful systems at scale.
By Craig Risi
Shuman Ghosemajumder explains how generative AI has transformed from a creative curiosity into a high-scale tool for disinformation and fraud. He shares insights on "Disinformation Automation," the fallacy of CAPTCHA in an AI world, and why engineering leaders must adopt zero-trust "cyber fusion" strategies to defend against automated attacks that mimic human behavior with chilling accuracy.
By Shuman Ghosemajumder
In this article, author Vignesh Durai discusses how agentic and multimodal AI systems can be engineered using Apache Camel and LangChain4j technologies. The key components in the solution include LLM-based reasoning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and image classification.
By Vignesh Durai
HashiCorp has released Vault 2.0, moving to the IBM versioning and support model following its acquisition. The update introduces Workload Identity Federation for secret syncing without static credentials, SCIM 2.0 provisioning, and performance gains in the storage engine. It also prioritises identity-based security and certificate automation while removing legacy architectural components.
By Mark Silvester
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