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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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Cloudflare recently described how a slowdown in its billing pipeline was traced to contention inside the query planning stage of ClickHouse. The team profiled the bottleneck and patched ClickHouse to replace an exclusive lock with a shared lock, drop the per-query copy of the parts list, and improve part filtering.
By Renato Losio
OpenAI details Codex Windows sandbox architecture, showing how SIDs, ACLs, restricted tokens, and dedicated sandbox accounts enable safe execution of autonomous coding tasks. The design balances isolation with real developer workflows and shows how OS security primitives must be composed for AI agents on local development environments.
By Leela Kumili
LinkedIn’s Karthik Ramgopal and Prince Valluri discuss leveraging AI as a new execution model for large-scale engineering. They explain how to move beyond fragmented implementations by building platform abstractions for orchestration, structured context, and safe tooling like MCP. They share architectural insights from real-world coding, observation, and UI testing agents built at LinkedIn.
By Karthik Ramgopal, Prince Valluri
Netflix has shared details about Service Topology. This internal system creates and updates a live dependency graph for thousands of microservices. It helps engineers see how services connect and resolve issues more quickly. The system merges three separate data sources into a single, queryable graph. It updates almost in real-time as traffic patterns shift.
By Claudio Masolo
Dropbox has unveiled Nova, an internal platform designed to orchestrate and operationalize AI coding agents across the company's engineering workflows.
By Craig Risi
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Robert,
You should join OJUG Town here on Codetown. http://www.codetown.us/group/orlandojug Once you join, you'll get email when we're going to have a meeting and when people post discussions in the group.
Best,
Mike
Hi JR and welcome to Codetown! I hope to see you blogging soon - what you blog here winds up on the Codetown homepage, so it will be much appreciated. I know there's a lot of buzz locally about GWT, so if you feel like writing up something like a case study or share a tip, that would be popular.
All the best,
Michael Levin