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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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Cloudflare recently announced the preview of EmDash, a new open-source CMS it describes as a “spiritual successor to WordPress.” Designed to rebuild the CMS model around a serverless, developer-focused architecture, EmDash includes AI-native features, developer tooling, and migration paths from WordPress, sparking debate across the WordPress and broader CMS community.
By Renato Losio
Uber has decentralized its Hive data warehouse, migrating 16,000 datasets totaling over 10 petabytes using pointer-based federation. The migration ensures zero downtime, strict ACL enforcement, improved governance, and scalable, domain-specific datasets for analytics and machine learning workloads.
By Leela Kumili
The MCP Dev Summit North America 2026, held on April 2-3 at the New York Marriott Marquis, gathered about 1,200 attendees. Hosted by the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, discussions focused on the Model Context Protocol's evolution and enterprise adoption, particularly by Amazon and Uber, emphasizing security, interoperability, and scaling for production.
By Andrew Hoblitzell
Sepehr Khosravi discusses the current state of AI-assisted coding, moving beyond basic autocompletion to sophisticated agentic workflows. He explains the technical nuances of Cursor’s "Composer" and Claude Code’s research capabilities, providing tips for managing context windows and MCP integrations. He shares lessons from industry leaders on shrinking process time beyond just writing code.
By Sepehr Khosravi
Work isn’t the only place where you can develop valuable leadership skills, Sophie Weston mentioned in the video The Principal Engineer’s Path from her QCon London talk. She suggested thinking about the things you do outside of your job where you can learn and practice useful leadership skills, and bringing your full skill set - your whole self - to work.
By Ben Linders
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Hi Khabeerr and welcome to Codetown. Question: what Google search keywords brought you here? What kind of development do you do? Please, feel at home here. Join some groups and get to know the community. Most of all, I hope you start a discussion or two and use your Codetown blog. This community is all about interaction and content, so if you have questions or something to share, here's the place. All the best - and I hope you find some very useful content here... Mike