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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.
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Engineering teams make their most consequential decisions not in architecture reviews or sprint planning, but through invisible choices embedded in metrics, defaults, and everyday behaviors. In their QCon San Francisco 2025 keynote, Shawna Martell and Dan Fike challenged the industry's focus on documented decision-making while the decisions that truly shape systems and culture go unrecognized.
By Eran Stiller
Cloud computing is evolving through disaggregation, addressing inefficiencies of traditional architectures by decoupling compute and storage. This shift enhances scalability, fault isolation, and operational simplicity, driven by advancements in networking. As seen in cloud databases such as Amazon Aurora, embracing these principles enables true economic optimization and innovative design.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Innovative Cloudflare Workflows now supports both TypeScript and Python, enabling developers to orchestrate complex applications seamlessly. With durable execution and state persistence, it simplifies the development of robust data pipelines and AI/ML models. Experience enhanced concurrency and intuitive design, making orchestration effortless for Python enthusiasts.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Multi-cloud event-driven architectures are now essential, not optional. With most organizations already multi-cloud, success depends on optimizing latency, ensuring resilience, and managing event consistency across providers. Key practices include code-level tuning, robust recovery policies, duplicate prevention, observability, and strong team readiness.
By Teena Idnani
The release of .NET 10 brings with it F# version 10. It’s a refinement‑focused update that enhances the language’s ergonomics, improves performance, and optimises compiler behaviour for everyday functional development.
By Edin Kapić
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