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Welcome to Codetown!

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.

When you create a profile for yourself you get a personal page automatically. That's where you can be creative and do your own thing. People who want to get to know you will click on your name or picture and…
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Git 2.37 Brings Builtin File Monitor, Improved Pruning, and More

Git 2.37 brings many new ans improved features, including a builtin file system monitor on Windows and macOS, better unreachable objects management, improved external diff, faster git add, and more.

By Sergio De Simone

Dropbox Unplugs Data Center to Test Resilience

Dropbox have published a detailed account of why and how they unplugged an entire data center to test their disaster readiness. The disaster readiness team began building tools to make performing frequent failovers possible, and ran their first formalized failover in 2019. Eventually, with new tooling and procedures, the data center was unplugged. This provided a significantly reduced RTO.

By Matt Saunders

Applying Observability to Increase Delivery Speed and Flow in Teams

When we design team and departmental processes, we want to know what’s happening in the software teams. Asking team members to provide information or fill in fields in tools adds a burden and distorts reality. Setting up observability in the software can provide alternative insights in a less intrusive way. Observability in the software can be an asset to organizing teams.

By Ben Linders

Trivago’s Journey From PHP+Melody to Next.js and Typescript

Trivago’s platform was built using PHP and their Melody framework. A small number of engineers at Trivago maintained Melody, which was a continuity risk. Melody’s documentation and examples could not be as rich as desired due to a lack of capacity, making engineer onboarding and support much more difficult. Trivago then decided to rewrite its platform on Typescript using Next.js.

By Vasco Veloso

Article: The Compounding (Business) Value of Composable Ecosystems

Being “free” and open source doesn’t hinder the value of these projects to businesses and end users, rather it unlocks it. The composability of open source ecosystems allows the innovation and value of the whole ecosystem to compound on itself.

By Bill Mulligan

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