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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.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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HashiCorp has announced the general availability of version 8.0 of the Terraform provider for Google Cloud. The major release updates the default load balancing for two Compute Engine resources. It also removes resources linked to retired Google Cloud services.
By Claudio Masolo
Cloudflare has launched K2 in public beta, a serverless event streaming service implementing a durable log on R2 object storage. Cloudflare states produce latency of about one second at p99; a tester reported end-to-end p99 of 7.5 seconds, which a commenter answering for the team said was higher than expected. Consume charges match produce charges per GB.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Pratik Rasam discusses how Spotify Ads Manager runs production-grade multi-agent systems at scale using Google ADK Java. He shares key architectural patterns, domain ownership models, deterministic guardrails, and tracing-based evaluation strategies, detailing hard-learned lessons on drawing agent boundaries, optimizing tool schemas, and managing costs while avoiding monolithic agent pitfalls.
By Pratik Rasam
European organisations can enhance their technological sovereignty by developing credible alternatives and acquiring necessary skills, rather than completely avoiding global providers. A panel discussion at the OSS EU highlighted the importance of understanding dependencies in cloud and hardware, and emphasized the need for practical choices in software for effective operational sovereignty.
By Olimpiu Pop
During its recent “Birthday Week”, Cloudflare announced Clef, a set of open-weight AI models designed to choose between predefined options rather than generate text. Cloudflare released 9B- and 27B-parameter models, along with a platform for adapting them to specific decision-making tasks.
By Renato Losio
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Robert,
You should join OJUG Town here on Codetown. http://www.codetown.us/group/orlandojug Once you join, you'll get email when we're going to have a meeting and when people post discussions in the group.
Best,
Mike
Hi JR and welcome to Codetown! I hope to see you blogging soon - what you blog here winds up on the Codetown homepage, so it will be much appreciated. I know there's a lot of buzz locally about GWT, so if you feel like writing up something like a case study or share a tip, that would be popular.
All the best,
Michael Levin