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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.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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In the wake of a staggering $120K bill due to unchecked autoscaling during a DDoS attack, industry experts stress the necessity of robust FinOps strategies. Key recommendations include capping resource limits and utilizing real-time alerts to prevent financial disasters. Balancing cost control with system availability is crucial to safeguard modern cloud environments.
By Steef-Jan WiggersGrafana 12.1 is here, elevating system reliability and alert management with features like Grafana Advisor for health checks, a revamped alerting interface, and trendline transformations for smarter data visualization. Enhanced dashboard interactivity and improved variable handling empower teams to scale efficiently. Experience the new era of Grafana on Cloud or self-hosted!
By Mark SilvesterGoogle has introduced LangExtract, an open-source Python library designed to help developers extract structured information from unstructured text using large language models such as the Gemini models.
By Daniel DominguezJohn O'Hara shares the compelling 18-year saga of the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), detailing its evolution from a JPMorgan business problem to an international ISO standard. He explains the technical and political challenges, emphasizing the critical role of open standards in preventing vendor lock-in and fostering robust, universal messaging solutions.
By John O'HaraWell-designed CLIs are crucial in the agentic AI era—serving both human users and autonomous agents with precision and reliability. Treat CLI output formats as stable API contracts and prioritize adoption of the MCP protocol for agent integration from day one.
By Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan
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