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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Anthropic has published how the Claude Code team reviews code now that Claude writes roughly 90% of it, including a claim that nobody keeps a complete mental model of the codebase. The post documents a pull request that ran more than fifty review rounds overnight, a reviewer spending most of its effort on pre-existing code, and a control the team says it does not yet have.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Datadog has released Scout, a model trained to investigate production problems. It runs inside Bits Investigation, the company's AI SRE product, where it can pick up an alert, look through telemetry and suggest what caused the problem. Datadog engineers and a small number of customers are using it in a closed preview.
By Matt Saunders
Cloudflare has recently launched a beta Web Search API through AI Gateway. Available through REST APIs and Cloudflare Workers, it provides unified logging, access controls, and billing, and supports bring-your-own-provider keys.
By Renato Losio
Airbnb extended its Chronon feature platform with Push Mode and Near Real-Time Model Transform to update sequence-based recommendation embeddings within seconds. The architecture reduced embedding staleness from nearly two days to under a minute and improved offline NDCG by 1.67%, while online testing increased uncancelled bookings by approximately one-third of a percent.
By Leela Kumili
Colin Douch shares battle-tested strategies for building and scaling self-hosted observability stacks. He explains how to effectively correlate metrics, structured logs, and distributed traces using open-source tooling like Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, and Jaeger, while navigating the engineering trade-offs of avoiding SaaS vendor lock-in.
By Colin Douch
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