Codetown ::: a software developer's community
Guess you know about all the resources and video cast Oracle providedat the Java 8 Launch site:…Continue
Started by Michael Levin. Last reply by Michael Levin Mar 29, 2014.
In this interview, Google’s Josh Bloch shares his views on the…Continue
Started by Michael Levin Dec 21, 2010.
JCertif is one of the first Java related conferences in the Republic of Congo, Brazzaville. Sponsored by…Continue
Tags: Max Bonbhel, Michael Levin, swampcast, africajug, congojug
Started by Michael Levin Aug 25, 2010.
Here's an update from the Chair of the JCP and director of the JCP Program office: Patrick Curranhttp://java.ulitzer.com/node/965152JSR Watch: Here’s…Continue
Started by Michael Levin May 19, 2009.
Are you doing much concurrent programming? I attended some of the concurrency talks at the NFJS conference and I'm using a mix of the old synchronized and the new(ish) java.util.concurrent classes.…Continue
Tags: Concurrency, J2SE
Started by Matt Weber Aug 31, 2008.
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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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The Allen Institute for AI has unveiled Olmo 3, an open-source language model family that empowers developers with full access to the model lifecycle, from training datasets to checkpoints. Featuring reasoning-focused variants and robust tools for post-training modifications, Olmo 3 promotes transparency, experimentation, and community collaboration, driving innovations in AI.
By Robert Krzaczyński
Nexla recently introduced Express, a conversational data engineering platform designed to dramatically lower the barrier for building data pipelines for AI applications.
By Craig Risi
Cloudflare’s recent global outage, linked to a database update, caused widespread disruption and highlighted the risks of single-vendor reliance. While service was restored, the incident sparked discussions on the importance of multi-vendor strategies in tech. Cloudflare's CEO vowed to enhance system resilience, emphasizing that outages can impact even the largest providers.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Grafana Labs has published major updates across two of its core observability products: Grafana 12.3, and Grafana Tempo 2.9. The two releases have distinct improvements in monitoring, logs, and tracing for Grafana users.
By Matt Saunders
The Linux Foundation has announced the general availability of Valkey 9.0, the open-source in-memory storage solution developed as a successor to Redis. The latest major version introduces atomic slot migrations, hash field expiration, and full support for numbered databases in cluster mode, enabling scaling to 2,000 nodes and achieving over 1 billion requests per second.
By Renato Losio
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