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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.
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Presentation: Mitigating Geopolitical Risks with Local-First Software and atproto
Martin Kleppmann discusses the urgent need for technological sovereignty in modern infrastructure. Exploring the shifting landscape of global tech dependencies, he shares how engineering leaders can leverage multi-cloud architecture, de facto API standardization, the AT Protocol, and local-first development paradigms to reclaim user agency and build highly resilient systems.
By Martin KleppmannPodcast: From MCP and Vibe Coding to Harness Engineering: How Did AI Native Engineering Evolve in One Year
Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks, returns to discuss the rapid evolution of AI in software delivery. She touches on the evolution from vibe coding, the changing tools landscape and the more autonomous agents that, besides higher velocity, introduce higher risk.
By Birgitta BöckelerArticle: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Phishing: How Phishing Technique Is Evolving and Implemented
In this article, the author examines how AI is transforming phishing from a manual, targeted activity into an automated and scalable attack model. The article breaks down each stage of the phishing lifecycle, showing how AI improves reconnaissance, profiling, content generation, delivery, and interaction, while outlining layered defenses that combine controls, processes, and user awareness.
By Marco RizziPresentation: Beyond Speed Limits: Exploring the Performance Power of Valkey
Senior Solution Architect Viktor Vedmich shares how engineering leaders can maximize application performance using Valkey. He discusses the open-source Redis fork's 100% API compatibility, explores advanced caching strategies like lazy loading, and explains how to implement powerful data structures for real-time analytics, rate limiting, and session stores to solve the thundering herd problem.
By Viktor VedmichMicrosoft Discovery Reaches GA on Azure, Powering the Agentic AI Behind Majorana 2 Quantum Chip
Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Discovery, its Azure-based platform for deploying autonomous AI agent teams in scientific R&D. The platform powered the development of Majorana 2, a topological quantum chip with 1,000x reliability improvement and 20-second qubit lifetimes. Microsoft now targets a scalable quantum computer by 2029, halving its original timeline.
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