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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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Ian Arundale and Matthew Clark discuss the BBC's architecture for handling massive digital moments like general elections. They explain how a serverless-first approach and a focus on three key non-functional requirements - elasticity, resilience, and security - enabled them to build a highly scalable platform. They also share how architects' soft skills are crucial for implementation.
By Matthew Clark, Ian ArundaleAt InfoQ Dev Summit Munich (Oct 15-16), learn directly from the senior engineers building complex systems. This practitioner-led conference offers deep dives on real-world implementation patterns from software leaders at Allianz, Skyscanner, Zalando, and Delivery Hero.
By Artenisa ChatziouHybrid search, smart chunking, and domain-aware indexing are key to building effective RAG pipelines. Context window limits and prompt quality critically affect LLM response accuracy. This article provides lessons learned from setting up a RAG pipeline.
By Glenn EngstrandAmazon Web Services has announced a significant breakthrough in container orchestration with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supporting clusters with up to 100,000 nodes, a 10x increase from previous limits.
By Claudio MasoloGoogle released Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (nicknamed nano-banana), its newest image generation and editing model. The system introduces several upgrades over earlier Flash models, including character consistency across prompts, multi-image fusion, precise prompt-based editing, and integration of world knowledge for semantic understanding.
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