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Elon Musk is a business magnet, investor and engineer. Tags: Rogan, Joe Michael Levin Jul 31, 2019 104 views
Larry Ellison is America's third richest man. His company, Oracle, makes a widely-used database tha… Tags: Larry, Page Michael Levin Jul 21, 2019 104 views
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Join Michael Levin in this video interview with Jonathan Schwartz, former Sun Microsystems CEO. "Jo… Tags: Sun, carezone Michael Levin Aug 4, 2018 380 views
I left a physics job to do software engineering. Was it worth it? What do software engineers actual… Tags: introductions, programming Michael Levin Dec 2, 2017 104 views
Find out more at: https://re-publica.com/en/17/session/notes-emergency The Trump administration and… Tags: codetown, re:publica Michael Levin Jul 22, 2017 138 views
The first presentation on Node.js from Ryan Dahl at JSConf 2009. This is a great look at issues wit… Tags: Codetown, design Michael Levin Feb 18, 2017 142 views
Ousmane Samba is from Senegal. He is one of Gebeya's trainers and a bonafide senior front-end engin… Tags: codetown, senejug Michael Levin Feb 1, 2017 122 views
Taken at OSCON 2016 in Austin at the Open at Microsoft booth by Julian Cash of http://AuroraLightPo… Tags: Austin, 2016 Michael Levin Jun 12, 2016 110 views
Ryan Sipes of the Mycroft project talks Open AI and what openness means for the fast-arriving futur… Tags: lord, tim Timothy Lord May 31, 2016 118 views
According to Tim O'Reilly, the makers want to see the things they make become reality. Wow, Tim and… Tags: makers, codetown Michael Levin Feb 14, 2016 95 views
He's an inventor, electronics engineer, and a computer programmer. He was awarded with the National… Tags: codetown, inspire Michael Levin Feb 3, 2016 112 views
She's an American businesswoman with a degree in computer science, currently serving as the preside… Tags: codetown, success Michael Levin Dec 25, 2015 146 views
Marissa Mayer talks in depth about her background and tenure as CEO of Yahoo. Tags: codetown, interviews Michael Levin Dec 13, 2015 62 views
Get Hip with JHipster: Spring Boot + AngularJS + Bootstrap by Matt Raible Tags: Bootstrap, by Michael Levin Nov 19, 2015 106 views
These guys! Check out the drone. Pros? You might think so, what with that sweet skinned Porsche but… Tags: codetown, Drones Michael Levin Sep 9, 2015 73 views
JCP Program Manager Heather VanCura and Tori Wieldt discuss the improvements to the Java Community… Tags: java, codetown Michael Levin Sep 8, 2015 61 views
From OSCON 2015 in Portland: The Federal Government’s approach to technology is outdated and madden… Tags: oscon, 2015 Michael Levin Aug 16, 2015 102 views
Steve Jobs at the 1997 WWDC. This is the question that contains an insult based on a question asked… Tags: vision, codetown Michael Levin Aug 10, 2015 102 views
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
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.
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Instacart redesigned its personalized marketing system using a configuration-driven multi-tenant architecture on Storefront Pro. The system replaces retailer-specific implementations with a shared execution engine, enabling scalable personalization, faster configuration propagation in under a minute, and 99.9% delivery success across hundreds of retail banners through a unified campaign platform.
By Leela Kumili
Cassie Shum discusses the architectural evolution of GraphRAG and why data foundations are critical for advanced AI workflows. She explains how traditional vector RAG falls short when addressing global context, multi-hop reasoning, and provenance. She shares enterprise strategies for building semantically structured knowledge graphs that shift raw orchestrating logic down to the data layer.
By Cassie Shum
HeroUI v3 is a redesigned React component library, previously NextUI, offering over 75 components, including 21 new ones, and a new React Native library with 37 components. Built on React Aria and Tailwind CSS v4, it emphasizes accessibility and customization. The library has experienced many updates since its release, and migration from the previous version is necessary.
By Daniel Curtis
The panelists explain the realities of running AI systems reliably at scale. While building models is solved, maintaining production databases under constant pressure is not. They discuss the emerging architectural decisions separating teams that scale gracefully from those facing catastrophic outages, and what engineering leaders must rethink today.
By Simerus Mahesh, Alex Infanzon, Meryem Arik, Luca Bianchi, Renato Losio
Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan discusses industry-converging patterns for securing autonomous AI agents in production. He explains the critical vulnerabilities hidden inside the ReAct loop across context, reasoning, and tool execution. He shares how to mitigate risks like memory poisoning and rogue tool execution using defense-in-depth strategies, LLM-as-a-judge critics, and MAESTRO threat modeling.
By Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan
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