Codetown ::: a software developer's community
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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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Recently, Pinterest disclosed its internal orchestration framework, called Hadoop Control Center (HCC), to automate the scaling and migration of its large-scale Hadoop clusters. This move addresses the operational complexity and limitations Pinterest previously faced when managing thousands of nodes across dozens of YARN clusters on AWS.
By Claudio MasoloAWS's new Fair Queues for Amazon SQS revolutionize message handling in multi-tenant systems by mitigating the "noisy neighbor" issue. This feature ensures low message dwell times for quieter tenants without requiring code changes, enhancing both performance and fairness. Developers can effortlessly implement this capability and maintain consistent service quality across applications.
By Steef-Jan WiggersTraditional data lakes aregreat for storing massive amounts of stuff, but they're terrible at the transactional guarantees and versioning that ML workloads desperately need. Apache Iceberg and SparkSQL bring database-like reliability to your data lake. Time travel, schema evolution, and ACID transactions help support reproducible machine learning experiments.
By Anant KumarAt Google Cloud Summit London in early July, Google revealed new capabilities in Firebase Studio that promise to enhance agentic cloud-based development: an autonomous Agent mode, native support for Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Gemini CLI integration. These updates aim to streamline agentic AI development by making AI agents more independent and seamlessly embedded in developer workflows.
By Hien LuuAWS enhances Lambda with console-to-IDE integration and remote debugging, empowering developers to streamline serverless application development. These features enable seamless transitions to IDEs like Visual Studio Code and robust debugging with full access to VPC resources. Discover how these tools optimize workflows in the AWS developer guide and Toolkit for VS Code.
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