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Kotlin Thursdays Presents: Tea Time - Bad Bosses with Brittney BraxtonThis week, Ben Rodriguez and Brittney Baxton discusses ways leaders and organizations help shape (or hinder) engineer development. Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
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Kotlin Thursdays - Image Processing in Kotlin Part 3 with Amanda Hinchman-DominguezKotlin Thursdays: Image Processing in Kotlin Part 3 Part 1: https://codetown.com/group/kotlin/forum/topics/kotlin-thursdays-image-processin… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
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Kotlin Thursdays - Kotlin Koans with Ben Rodriguez Part 2Kotlin Thursdays: Kotlin Koans with Ben Rodriguez @apichamion Part 1 here: https://codetown.com/group/kotlin/forum/topics/kotlin-thursda… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
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Kotlin Thursdays Presents: Tea Time - The Toxic Engineering Environment with JP FairfieldThis Kotlin Thursday, Amanda and JP Fairfield talk about working overtime in tech. Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
0 | Nov 8, 2018 |
Kotlin Thursdays - Image Processing in Kotlin Part 2 with Amanda Hinchman-DominguezKotlin Thursdays: Image Processing in Kotlin Part 2 Welcome to Kotlin Thursdays! Last week, we were able to render an image with TornadoFX… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
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Kotlin Thursdays - Kotlin Koans with Ben Rodriguez Part 1Kotlin Thursdays: Kotlin Koans with Ben Rodriguez @apichamion Hey everyone! Welcome to Kotlin Thursdays. With some many languages out t… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
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Kotlin Thursdays - Image Processing in Kotlin Part 1 with Amanda Hinchman-DominguezKotlin Thursdays: Image Processing in Kotlin Part 1 Welcome to Kotlin Thursdays and Happy Halloween! This week, we will be exploring image… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
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Kotlin Thursdays - Collection Mechanics with Matt MooreKotlin Thursdays: Collection Mechanics Welcome to the first Kotlin Thursday of the season! We're glad to have you here. This week, we're go… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
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KT 2.0 TeaserStarted by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
0 | Oct 23, 2018 |
Kotlin Thursdays - Coming Back October 25thKotlin Thursdays is coming back with a new season - new friends, new content, and episodes!! Stay tuned :) Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
0 | Oct 10, 2018 |
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CVE-2026-85706 is a critical GitLab path-traversal vulnerability that has moved beyond theoretical risk into confirmed exploitation. It affects self-managed GitLab CE/EE and could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to read arbitrary files from the GitLab.
By Sergio De Simone
Swaroop Chitlur and Sidd Kodwani share DoorDash’s journey building an internal GenAI platform. They discuss core architectural bets, transitioning from vendor-first setups to open-weights models, navigating LLM and agent gateways, and balancing accuracy, latency, and cost for over 5,000 internal users.
By Siddharth Kodwani, Swaroop Chitlur
Istio 1.31 adds agentgateway waypoints in ambient mode, with a canary configuration fix included in 1.31.1. It also ends the publication of images and Helm charts to Google Cloud, requiring repository migration ahead of the 13 October outage test and signing-key updates for teams verifying images.
By Mark Silvester
A recent article by Anil Madhavapeddy argues that AI agents can turn publicly available clues about software vulnerabilities into working exploits, reducing the effectiveness of traditional disclosure embargoes in open source projects. The author highlights the need for faster patching and release processes as the time between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation shrinks.
By Renato Losio
Uber has rebuilt major parts of the Uber Eats search pipeline, reporting a 50% reduction in end-to-end latency. Changes include Above-the-Fold measurement, reduced retrieval work, parallel hydration, advertising data redesign, infrastructure optimizations, and an agentic coding workflow. Uber is also exploring microbatching, product-based retrieval, and HTTP multipart streaming.
By Leela Kumili
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