Codetown ::: a software developer's community
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.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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Vercel has recently introduced Vercel Fluid, an elastic compute model that allows a single worker to handle multiple requests, similar to a traditional server, while preserving the elasticity of serverless. By scaling functions before instances, Fluid maximizes available compute time, optimizing compute footprint and resource efficiency for long-running tasks and AI inference.
By Renato LosioOpenAI has introduced the SWE-Lancer benchmark, to evaluate the capabilities of advanced AI language models in real-world freelance software engineering tasks.
By Daniel DominguezGoogle's most advanced GenAI image generation model, Imagen 3, is now available in preview through Vertex AI in Firebase enabling seamless integration into Android and iOS apps through its Kotlin and Swift SDKs.
By Sergio De SimoneUsing the analogy of addressing the lunch rush in restaurants, Michael Haken, senior principal solutions architect at AWS, describes how Amazon builds both well-behaved clients and well-protected services through operational and architectural strategies.
By Renato LosioDaniel Rosenwasser, principal product manager at Microsoft, announced the release of TypeScript 5.8. The new release features as usual better type inference. It also improves performance and the interoperability with the JavaScript ecosystem.
By Bruno Couriol
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