Codetown ::: a software developer's community
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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This article shares practical experiences and concrete examples from multi-site teams that built a single solution and delivered value to customers across various European markets. It provides real-life stories and lessons learned from developing two banking products, Lending and Foreign Exchange (FX), and their evolving architecture over time.
By Lejla Vulovic, Ana NadDevelopers and contributors of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) converged in San Francisco in May 2025 for their first developer summit, charting the future of this rapidly adopted open standard to enable seamless integration between LLM applications and external data sources and tools. Discussions focused on a roadmap for MCP, including critical enterprise features.
By Hien LuuRenato Losio and a panel of security experts discuss designing for defense and architecting APIs with Zero Trust principles. They explain Zero Trust concepts, address challenges developers face in applying these, and highlight common API vulnerabilities.
By Nivedita Murthy, Zsolt Németh, Katie Paxton-Fear, Ben Bridts, Renato LosioAWS has recently announced that Amazon S3 now supports sort and z-order compaction for Apache Iceberg tables. The new features reduce scan times and engine costs, and are available for both S3 Tables and traditional S3 buckets using AWS Glue Data Catalog optimization.
By Renato LosioInnovative software engineer focused on optimizing search performance in dynamic environments. This article highlights key strategies from our QCon San Francisco 2024 presentation, addressing challenges faced by platforms like Uber Eats in data indexing and retrieval. Our advancements ensure swift, relevant user experiences amidst ever-growing datasets.
By Janani Narayanan, Karthik Ramasamy
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