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Edgar A.'s Groups (8)
Build Team Town
4 members Latest Activity: Oct 6, 2009 You love Ant and other build tools. You can build an app, run a suite of tests, create a jar, deploy it. Or, you want to learn. This is your group!
SeneJUG Town
7 members Latest Activity: Jun 5, 2014 The SeneJUG is the West African Java Users Group. Our vibrant community meets in Dakar, Senegal. SeneJUG Town is our virtual meeting point. Ba…
Flex Loft
13 members Latest Activity: Aug 2, 2010 The Flex Loft is a place Flex coders can come to share ideas, ask questions and share tips about Flex, a powerful user interface programming…
Python
15 members Latest Activity: Jul 14, 2018 Python. Life's better without braces.
Ruby Town
14 members Latest Activity: Dec 5, 2012 Ruby has made an impact on patterns of software development with its elegant syntax and Rails, an intelligent framework designed to simplify coding.
iPhone Development
40 members Latest Activity: Jan 29, 2015 iPhone development is going nuts! All the apps, all the possibilities. Objective-C is the language. The SDK is out. Shops are springing up everywhere…
Freelance Village
11 members Latest Activity: Jul 6, 2018 Freelancing? Whether you're new or an old timer, this is the place for you! Share your tips and explore the possibilities here.
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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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.
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InfoQ Reading List
Article: Engineering Speed at Scale — Architectural Lessons from Sub-100-ms APIs
Sub‑100-ms APIs emerge from disciplined architecture using latency budgets, minimized hops, async fan‑out, layered caching, circuit breakers, and strong observability. But long‑term speed depends on culture, with teams owning p99, monitoring drift, managing thread pools, and treating performance as a shared, continuous responsibility.
By Saranya VedagiriUber Moves from Static Limits to Priority-Aware Load Control for Distributed Storage
Uber engineers detailed how they evolved their storage platform from static rate limiting to a priority-aware load management system. The approach protects Docstore and Schemaless, Uber’s MySQL-based distributed databases, by colocating control with storage, prioritizing critical traffic, and dynamically shedding load under overload conditions.
By Leela KumiliBuilding Software Organisations Where People Can Thrive
Continuous learning, adaptability, and strong support networks are the foundations for thriving teams, Matthew Card mentioned. Trust is built through consistent, fair leadership and addressing toxic behaviour, bias, and microaggressions early. By fostering growth, psychological safety, and accountability, people-first leadership drives resilience, collaboration, and performance.
By Ben LindersGoogle DeepMind Introduces ATLAS Scaling Laws for Multilingual Language Models
Google DeepMind researchers have introduced ATLAS, a set of scaling laws for multilingual language models that formalize how model size, training data volume, and language mixtures interact as the number of supported languages increases.
By Robert KrzaczyńskiPresentation: Foundation Models for Ranking: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned
Moumita Bhattacharya discusses the evolution of Netflix’s ranking systems, from the multi-model architecture to a Unified Contextual Recommender (UniCoRn). She explains how they built a task-agnostic User Foundation Model to capture long-term member preferences. Learn how they solve system challenges like high-throughput inference and the tradeoff between relevance and personalization.
By Moumita Bhattacharya
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