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Welcome to Codetown!
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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InfoQ Reading List
Presentation: Thriving Through Change: Leading Through Uncertainty
Jennifer Davis discusses practical approaches for senior software developers and engineering leaders to navigate organizational change and build high-performing teams. She explains the importance of functional leadership, enabling healthy conflict, and establishing metrics that truly reflect value. Learn how to craft supportive environments that empower individual growth and maximize team impact.
By Jennifer DavisQCon London 2025: Kraken Technology's Approach to Renewable Energy Management
Kevin Bowman of Kraken Technology unveiled how serverless cloud solutions are revolutionizing the UK's power grid management amid a 40% surge in renewable energy. By leveraging intelligent control systems, battery storage and microservices, Kraken optimizes energy flow and grid stability while advocating for consumer cooperation and continued investment in cloud technologies for future resilience.
By Steef-Jan WiggersAMD’s Gaia Framework Brings Local LLM Inference to Consumer Hardware
AMD has released Gaia, an open-source project allowing developers to run large language models (LLMs) locally on Windows machines with AMD hardware acceleration. The framework supports retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and includes tools for indexing local data sources. Gaia is designed to offer an alternative to LLMs hosted on a cloud service provider (CSP).
By Matt FosterMeta AI Releases Llama 4: Early Impressions and Community Feedback
Meta has officially released the first models in its new Llama 4 family—Scout and Maverick—marking a step forward in its open-weight large language model ecosystem. Designed with a native multimodal architecture and a mixture-of-experts (MoE) framework, these models aim to support a broader range of applications, from image understanding to long-context reasoning.
By Robert KrzaczyńskiQCon London: Monzo's Recipe for Developer Experience: Assemble, Build, Communicate
Fabien Deshayes spoke on how Monzo has created and optimised their developer experience teams in a talk at QCon London 2025. Deshayes outlined some techniques for building an effective Developer Experience platform, focusing on three key aspects: assembling effective teams, building impactful products, and communicating value across the organisation.
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