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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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HashiCorp’s New Guide Offers Practical Advice on Writing and Rightsizing Terraform Modules
In a blog post titled "How to write and rightsize Terraform modules", HashiCorp shares a comprehensive framework for creating maintainable, scalable modules in the Terraform ecosystem. Author Mitch Pronschinske draws on insights from consultant Rene Schach's HashiDays 2025 session to focus on four key pillars: module scope, code strategy, security, and testing.
By Craig RisiMicrosoft Patches Critical ASP.NET Core Vulnerability with 9.9 Severity Score
Microsoft recently released a security advisory and patched a critical vulnerability in ASP.NET Core that allows an attacker to bypass a security feature over a network due to an inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests. With a CVSS score of 9.9 out of 10, CVE-2025-55315 is the highest-rated Microsoft vulnerability.
By Renato LosioArticle: When Reverse Proxies Surprise You: Hard Lessons from Operating at Scale
Operating massive reverse proxy fleets reveals hard lessons: optimizations that work on smaller systems fail at scale; mundane oversights like missing commas cause major outages; and abstractions meant to simplify become hidden fragility points. Success requires profiling on target hardware, relentlessly monitoring boring details, keeping hot paths lean, and trusting instrumentation over theory.
By Mitendra MahtoGoogle Cloud Introduces Chaos Engineering Framework and Recipes for Distributed Systems
Google Cloud's Expert Services Team has released a detailed guide on chaos engineering for cloud-based distributed systems. It highlights that the intentional creation of failures is essential for developing resilient architectures. The initiative provides open-source recipes and helpful guidance for applying controlled disruption testing in Google Cloud environments.
By Claudio MasoloNew Claude Haiku 4.5 Model Promises Faster Performance at One-Third the Cost
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, making the model available to all users as its latest entry in the small, fast model category. The company positions the new model as delivering performance levels comparable to Claude Sonnet 4, which launched five months ago as a state-of-the-art model, but at "one-third the cost and more than twice the speed."
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