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Come join us here at the RDC JUG Town! Stanislas Matayo and the group in Kinshasa welcome you.
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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.
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Anthropic has unveiled a new feature called Skills, designed to let developers extend Claude with modular, reusable task components.
By Daniel Dominguez
Introducing Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager: AWS's new centralized solution for streamlined monitoring and management of EC2 capacity across all accounts and regions. This innovative tool consolidates data into a unified dashboard, enhancing efficiency while reducing operational complexity.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
During Cloudflare's recent Birthday Week, the company announced the private preview of its Cloudflare Email Service. This new globally managed service enables developers to send and receive emails directly from Workers using native bindings, without the need for API keys.
By Renato Losio
Meta’s PyTorch team has launched Monarch, a framework that simplifies distributed AI workflows across multiple GPUs and machines. It uses a single-controller model to manage computations across a cluster, making large-scale training and reinforcement learning tasks easier while allowing developers to keep their standard PyTorch coding practices.
By Robert Krzaczyński
Airbnb’s engineering team re-architected its internal key-value storage system, Mussel, to unify streaming and bulk ingestion while simplifying operations, achieving over 100,000 writes per second and sub-25ms read latencies on 100-terabyte tables, while leveraging Kubernetes, Kafka, and a NewSQL backend to improve scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency across its internal services.
By Leela Kumili
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