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Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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Cloudflare has released Dynamic Worker Loader into open beta, offering V8 isolate-based sandboxing for AI-generated code execution. The company claims isolates start in milliseconds, using megabytes of memory, making them roughly 100x faster and up to 100x more memory-efficient than containers. The feature builds on Cloudflare's Code Mode approach.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Discovered by FutureSearch researcher Callum McMahon, a supply chain attack against LiteLLM on PyPI resulted in over 40 thousand downloads of a compromised version that installed a malicious payload capable of harvesting and exfiltrating sensitive information. LiteLLM is downloaded roughly 3 million times per day.
By Sergio De Simone
Paul Duvall recently discussed his library of engineering patterns for AI assisted development and practices that ground high quality delivery. Related discussions from Paul Stack and Gergely Orosz highlight a shift toward remixing and specification driven development.
By Rafiq Gemmail
Dan Fike and Shawna Martell explain how "hidden decisions" silently shape software architecture and engineering culture. By examining the invisible defaults behind CI/CD bottlenecks, platform complexity, and misaligned metrics, they share frameworks for leading with intentionality. Learn to identify the "decision behind the decision" to better incentivize high-performing teams and careers.
By Shawna Martell, Dan Fike
As adoption of Kubernetes autoscalers like Karpenter accelerates, a new set of platform-agnostic observability practices is emerging, shifting focus from traditional infrastructure metrics to deeper insights into provisioning behavior, scheduling latency, and cost efficiency.
By Craig Risi
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Hi Mandela and welcome to Codetown! Hope you join some groups (like the OrlandoJUG!). Don't hesitate to post here, using your blog or in discussions in the groups, or in the forums. Get yourself a decent computer. Costco is my goto place. Or, you can even find great ones on craigslist or at garage sales. I got a used iMac on cl for $40 last month!
You might enjoy trying out Kotlin. It's a language that Google uses for Android. There is a Kotlin group with some very good articles by Amanda. Check it out, join it, post some results of your adventures.
All the best,
Mike