Codetown
Codetown ::: a software developer's community
Gifts Received
Vernon Singleton has not received any gifts yet
Vernon Singleton's Page
Profile Information
- How did you hear about Codetown?
- Michael Levin
- What are your main interests in software development?
- Software Developer
- Do you have a website?
- http://vsingleton.blogspot.com
Vernon Singleton's Blog
Let's talk about new Java APIs!
Posted on November 29, 2017 at 1:30pm 1 Comment 1 Like
Hello folks,
Want to hear about new Java APIs and some of the decisions made at the recent JavaOne? Ed burns and I will be presenting some of our recent work and findings after JavaOne 2017. Join us at the Canvs location. It is rumored that pizza will be provided. Don't miss out. Come chill, relax, eat some pizza and enjoy Java goodness.
See you there!…
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
Notes
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.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
Looking for Jobs or Staff?
Check out the Codetown Jobs group.
InfoQ Reading List
Presentation: Platform Engineering in the Age of AI
The panelists explain how platform teams adapt to support AI-assisted engineering, highlighting which capabilities belong in the platform. They discuss trade-offs between standardization and developer autonomy, while sharing strategies to manage AI tooling, security guardrails, and shifting workflows.
By Stéphane Di Cesare, Davide de Paolis, Stephen Cihak, Camila Macedo, Renato LosioHashiCorp Packer 1.16 Adds Native SLSA Provenance Generation and Verification for Machine Images
HashiCorp has released Packer v1.16.0, adding native support for generating, signing, and verifying SLSA provenance attestations for every image the tool builds. The release provides teams with a secure, tamper-proof record of how a machine image was made. It does this without needing extra supply-chain tools.
By Claudio MasoloGitLab Warns That AI Agent Sandboxes Are Only as Secure as Their Network Access
GitLab warns that isolating an AI coding agent in a sandbox does not necessarily make the agent safe. In a new security analysis, the company describes an internal evaluation in which an AI agent escaped its sandbox by exploiting a vulnerable package proxy that had been explicitly placed on the sandbox's allowlist.
By Craig RisiPresentation: A Solopreneur's Journey: From Engineer to Puzzle Master and Storyteller
Joe Cassavaugh shares his journey from software engineer to successful solopreneur with a $2M+ indie franchise. He explains how he scaled production to 10 games in 5 years, adopted Unity to boost velocity 4-6x, optimized content pipelines, and leveraged refactoring patterns. He discusses key trade-offs between corporate engineering and solopreneurship for senior devs and leaders.
By Joe CassavaughArticle: Implementing Chaos Engineering in Financial Payment Systems: Lessons from Enterprise ECS Deployments
Standard chaos engineering assumes experiments stop cleanly, blast radius is knowable in advance, and production is fair game. Payment systems violate all three. Salim Adedeji describes ECS-specific failure modes from enterprise deployments: a 60-second DNS TTL that produced 93-second failover, retry logic amplifying database load 2.4x, and AZ rebalancing loops that generic tooling misses.
By Salim Adedeji
© 2026 Created by Michael Levin.
Powered by
Comment Wall (3 comments)
You need to be a member of Codetown to add comments!
Join Codetown
Hi Vernon,
I just thought of you because I got an email from www.singletonhouse.com in Eureka!
Hope all is well. You might check out the new Kotlin group here. It's pretty exciting stuff!
Best,
Mike
Vernon - James Ward is presenting at the OJUG Th http://www.codetown.us/events/running-java-play-and-scala-apps-on-the-cloud
Please come and tell your friends at Disney and all over - I need some help promoting!
All the best,
Mike