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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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Article: Engineering a Time Series Database Using Open Source: Rebuilding InfluxDB 3 in Apache Arrow and Rust
At times, to evolve your product, you need to rebuild it from scratch. The article provides the story behind the rewrite of InfluxDB from scratch using a different programming language - Rust - and stack - Apache Flight, Data Fusion, Apache Arrow and Parquet (FDAP). It emphasises the benefits, as well as the mechanics behind its operation and the different versions of the product.
By Paul DixUber Shares Strategy for Controlling Risk in Monorepo Changes That Affect 3,000+ Microservices
Uber has published details on their approach to controlling rollouts of large-scale changes across monorepos that serve thousands of microservices, addressing one of the key challenges in continuous deployment at massive scale.
By Claudio MasoloPresentation: Achieving Sustainable Mental Peace at Work Using GenAI
John Gesimondo explains a framework for achieving sustainable mental peace at work. He shares practical recipes for using GenAI to improve emotional recovery, overcome task paralysis, and enhance planning and communication. He demonstrates how to leverage AI to outsource routine tasks, freeing up time for more engaging and meaningful work.
By John GesimondoSystem Initiative Launches “AI Native” Platform to Simplify Infrastructure Automation
System Initiative recently released its AI Native Infrastructure Automation platform, aiming to offer DevOps teams a new way to manage infrastructure through natural language.
By Craig RisiArticle: FedCM: A New Proposed Identity Standard That Could Change How We Log In on the Web
FedCM is a new proposed browser API for secure, frictionless, privacy-preserving federated logins. FedCM simplifies user authentication, for both user and developers and reduces the reliance on third-party cookies. The proposal is currently a public working draft moving towards a candidate recommendation from the W3C It's actively developed, with Chromium browsers already supporting it.
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