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Kotlin is a statically-typed language that runs on the JVM. Developed by a small JetBrains team in St. Petersburg, Kotlin is one of the hottest upcoming languages being used around the world. We're here to grow together as an open-source community and to learn collaboratively!
From content on the Kotlin language itself to programming paradigms to frameworks, we encourage anyone to submit content on anything Kotlin related. Our goal is learn collaboratively, meaning that the Kotlin Thursdays team is ready to help you submit content to share with others.
Every Thursday, we release new content every season. We have blogs available here in KotlinTown. This season, we're creating webisodes to compliment that content. Code and documentation related to content is available on Github.
Interested in contributing? Head over Github to learn how you can get started :)
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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Uber’s HiveSync team optimized Hadoop Distcp to handle multi-petabyte replication across hybrid cloud and on-premise data lakes. Enhancements include task parallelization, Uber jobs for small transfers, and improved observability, enabling 5x replication capacity and seamless on-premise-to-cloud migration.
By Leela Kumili
In a major shift in its hardware strategy, OpenAI launched GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, its first production AI model deployed on Cerebras wafer-scale chips rather than traditional Nvidia GPUs. The new model offers delivers improved throughput and low-latency, enabling a real-time, interactive coding experience, says the company.
By Sergio De SimoneIn this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Dr. Nicole Forsgren, the author of Accelerate and one of the most prominent and important minds in DevOps and developer productivity. The conversation is about identifying and removing developer friction, the subject of her new book, Frictionless.
By Nicole Forsgren
Katharine Jarmul keynotes on common myths around privacy and security in AI and explores what the realities are, covering design patterns that help build more secure, more private AI systems.
By Katharine Jarmul
This week's Java roundup for February 23rd, 2026, features news highlighting: new JEP 531 Candidate, Lazy Constants; GA releases of TornadoVM 3.0 and NetBeans 29; point releases of Quarkus, JReleaser, Chicory and RefactorFirst; maintenance releases of Micronaut and Jox; and the February 2026 edition of Open Liberty.
By Michael Redlich
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