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What you need to learn about entering into entrepreneurship, a practical suggestion by Alibaba CEO!… Tags: jobs, Alibaba Michael Levin Jul 3, 2015 100 views
"Speaker: Jim Baker So how did we get to Jython 2.7 anyway? And what are our future plans? In this… Tags: codetown, Jim Michael Levin Apr 25, 2015 108 views
A step-by-step demonstration of a smartphone dongle to diagnose sexually transmitted infections thr… Tags: dongles, smartphones Michael Levin Feb 17, 2015 88 views
JCertif International project KITA-MATA : Pilote #Drone using #African language Tags: Africa, bonbhel Michael Levin Oct 17, 2014 85 views
Tori Wieldt interviews Max Bonbhel on their IoT project and the African developer communities. Tags: Congo, jug Michael Levin Oct 17, 2014 104 views
You'll see some familiar faces in this video. Java One 2014 begins soon... Tags: codetown, java Michael Levin Sep 29, 2014 84 views
The Original 1984 Macintosh Introduction: the magic moment, when Steve Jobs unveils the Macintosh a… Tags: Codetown, marketing Michael Levin Jun 11, 2014 100 views
Lyndsey Scott is a model for Victoria's Secret and Prada who develops iOS apps in her spare time. S… Tags: matchmaker, ios7 Michael Levin Jun 11, 2014 100 views
"we are organized like a startups" Tags: startups, management Michael Levin Mar 13, 2014 99 views
DOWNLOAD this song: http://jonathanmann.bandcamp.com/track/thats-just-the-woz For the Woz! Tags: codetown, music Michael Levin Mar 7, 2014 99 views
Can design be so amazing that it makes us feel superheroic? Can it be so poor that it angers and fr… Tags: Superheroes & Villains in Design, design Michael Levin Mar 6, 2014 146 views
President Barack Obama asks every American to give it a shot to learn to code, kicking off the Hour… Tags: Code, of Michael Levin Dec 10, 2013 100 views
Roy Singham @ ThoughtWorks and Herman @ Softdrive talk with BBC about incubating the software devel… Tags: africa Michael Levin Jul 24, 2012 79 views
This original rap music video made for JavaOne 2011 celebrates the "Java Life". Dedicated to the de… Tags: video, rap Michael Levin Jan 12, 2012 104 views
Steve Jobs's speech at Standford 2005 - Thai sub Tags: innovation, freelance Michael Levin Oct 6, 2011 114 views
Murray's concern with the problems presented by unwanted but usable old computers being discarded i… Tags: eWaste Michael Levin Aug 15, 2010 94 views
Including a performance by Isaac "Shovelman" Frankle at Maker Faire. It's amazing what you can do w… Tags: faire, maker Michael Levin Jun 7, 2009 158 views
Internal auditing massively reduces technology overhead and costs on several different levels, incl… Tags: overhead, license Sadien Intellectual Property May 30, 2009 168 views
Big-Software companies have the power and legal backing to use federal copyright law to destroy oth… Tags: license, program Sadien Intellectual Property May 22, 2009 172 views
We are talking at the JavaOne event about my project to start a Java User Group in Congo (Africa).… Tags: james, gosling Max Bonbhel Apr 23, 2009 152 views
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The panelists explain how platform teams adapt to support AI-assisted engineering, highlighting which capabilities belong in the platform. They discuss trade-offs between standardization and developer autonomy, while sharing strategies to manage AI tooling, security guardrails, and shifting workflows.
By Stéphane Di Cesare, Davide de Paolis, Stephen Cihak, Camila Macedo, Renato Losio
HashiCorp has released Packer v1.16.0, adding native support for generating, signing, and verifying SLSA provenance attestations for every image the tool builds. The release provides teams with a secure, tamper-proof record of how a machine image was made. It does this without needing extra supply-chain tools.
By Claudio Masolo
GitLab warns that isolating an AI coding agent in a sandbox does not necessarily make the agent safe. In a new security analysis, the company describes an internal evaluation in which an AI agent escaped its sandbox by exploiting a vulnerable package proxy that had been explicitly placed on the sandbox's allowlist.
By Craig Risi
Joe Cassavaugh shares his journey from software engineer to successful solopreneur with a $2M+ indie franchise. He explains how he scaled production to 10 games in 5 years, adopted Unity to boost velocity 4-6x, optimized content pipelines, and leveraged refactoring patterns. He discusses key trade-offs between corporate engineering and solopreneurship for senior devs and leaders.
By Joe Cassavaugh
Standard chaos engineering assumes experiments stop cleanly, blast radius is knowable in advance, and production is fair game. Payment systems violate all three. Salim Adedeji describes ECS-specific failure modes from enterprise deployments: a 60-second DNS TTL that produced 93-second failover, retry logic amplifying database load 2.4x, and AZ rebalancing loops that generic tooling misses.
By Salim Adedeji
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