Web2.0 Town Discussions (10)

← Back to Web2.0 Town
Discussions Replies Latest Activity

Bebo returns!

Bebo has such an interesting story. It started about the same time as Facebook, became super popular, got sold to AOL and then to C Capital…

Started by Michael Levin

0 Dec 22, 2013

Instagram's Business Model

Instagram is growing at a rate similar to Twitter. Pictures don't need translation. That's just one aspect of the new photo sharing paradig…

Started by Michael Levin

1 Dec 18, 2012
Reply by Shubham Aggarwal

Notes from JCertif, in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

Brazzaville, Republic of Congo I've blogged a lot about this place and why I am here, so I'll summarize (read www.facebook.com/mikelevin

Started by Michael Levin

0 Aug 28, 2010

JCertif is on! Rockin' in the Congo...

JCertif is one of the first Java related conferences in the Republic of Congo, Brazzaville. Sponsored by AfricaJUG, CongoJUG, Oracle and…

Started by Michael Levin

0 Aug 25, 2010

How To Track Google Analytics on a Forwarded Domain

How do you track Google Analytics on a forwarded domain?

Started by Michael Levin

0 Jan 2, 2010

What tools you used to created your graphic design?

Hi, Any Graphic Designer out here? I am curious to what's your primary program/tool to create your images and graphics. I like to know some…

Started by Zemian Deng

0 Sep 13, 2008

RESTful Web Services and Comet

Rick Palkovic and I have written an article about a Comet application which allows users to watch and chat about a slide show. The Applicat…

Started by Carol McDonald

0 Aug 29, 2008

Java for Web Development

Do you use Java for web development? If so, why? There are multiple choices when it comes to web development languages and frameworks inclu…

Started by David T. Harris

1 Aug 23, 2008
Reply by Zemian Deng

a Dynamic Ajax table example using jMaki and RESTful Web Services

This Sample Catalog app demonstrates a RESTful Web Service, coded using JAX-RS: Java API for RESTful Web Services (JSR-311) and Java Persis…

Started by Carol McDonald

0 Jul 19, 2008

A Comet Slideshow example using dojo, Comet, Bayeux, on Grizzly

This Sample Slideshow app demonstrates the usage of the dojo Ajax framework, Comet, Bayeux, with Grizzly and Glassfish. http://weblogs.jav

Started by Carol McDonald

0 Jul 15, 2008

RSS

Happy 10th year, JCertif!

Notes

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.

When you create a profile for yourself you get a personal page automatically. That's where you can be creative and do your own thing. People who want to get to know you will click on your name or picture and…
Continue

Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.

Looking for Jobs or Staff?

Check out the Codetown Jobs group.

 

Enjoy the site? Support Codetown with your donation.



InfoQ Reading List

Pinterest Reduces Spark OOM Failures by 96% Through Auto Memory Retries

Pinterest Engineering cut Apache Spark out-of-memory failures by 96% using improved observability, configuration tuning, and automatic memory retries. Staged rollout, dashboards, and proactive memory adjustments stabilized data pipelines, reduced manual intervention, and lowered operational overhead across tens of thousands of daily jobs.

By Leela Kumili

Presentation: Duolingo's Kubernetes Leap

Franka Passing discusses the architectural shift of Duolingo’s 500+ backend services to Kubernetes. She explains the move toward GitOps with Argo CD, the transition to IPv6-only pods, and the "cellular architecture" used to isolate environments. She shares "reports from the trenches" on managing developer trust, navigating AWS rate limits, and productionizing early adopter services.

By Franka Passing

Article: A Better Alternative to Reducing CI Regression Test Suite Sizes

How can you focus in a sea of results from a large regression test suite? This article describes a stochastic approach that relies on some degree of redundancy in your CI regression test set. This approach does not guarantee you will catch every bug every time, but it gives you your best bet of not missing the subtle signatures of all the bugs uncovered by your CI regression test suite runs.

By James Bornefelt Westfall

Podcast: Context Engineering with Adi Polak

In this episode, Thomas Betts and Adi Polak talk about the need for context engineering when interacting with LLMs and designing agentic systems. Prompt engineering techniques work with a stateless approach, while context engineering allows AI systems to be stateful.

By Adi Polak

Dynamic Languages Faster and Cheaper in 13-Language Claude Code Benchmark

A 600-run benchmark by Ruby committer Yusuke Endoh tested Claude Code across 13 languages, implementing a simplified Git. Ruby, Python, and JavaScript were the fastest and cheapest, at $0.36- $0.39 per run. Statistically typed languages cost 1.4-2.6x more. Adding type checkers to dynamic languages imposed 1.6-3.2x slowdowns. Full dataset available on GitHub.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

© 2026   Created by Michael Levin.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service