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Elon Musk is a business magnet, investor and engineer. Tags: Rogan, Joe Michael Levin Jul 31, 2019 104 views
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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
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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 94 views
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Marissa Mayer talks in depth about her background and tenure as CEO of Yahoo. Tags: codetown, interviews Michael Levin Dec 13, 2015 59 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 70 views
JCP Program Manager Heather VanCura and Tori Wieldt discuss the improvements to the Java Community… Tags: java, codetown Michael Levin Sep 8, 2015 60 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From OSCON 2015 in Portland: The Federal Government’s approach to technology is outdated and madden… Tags: oscon, 2015 Michael Levin Aug 16, 2015 102 views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
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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.
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Anthropic has announced the general availability of Claude Platform on AWS, a new deployment option that gives AWS customers direct access to Anthropic’s native Claude platform using AWS authentication, billing, and monitoring services.
By Daniel Dominguez
Airbnb has redesigned its identity system to support privacy-first social features in Experiences. The platform introduces context-specific profiles that separate global user identity from externally visible profiles, preventing cross-context linkage. The migration leveraged automated auditing, manual validation, and AI-assisted refactoring to enforce correct identity usage across services.
By Leela Kumili
JEP 533, Structured Concurrency, has reached integrated status for JDK 27. It refines exception handling and type safety in its API, particularly focusing on exception flow with a new ExecutionException type. Changes include an updated Joiner interface and a new open overload for easier configuration. The steady evolution signals ongoing development as feedback shapes the API.
By A N M Bazlur Rahman
Paulo Arruda discusses Shopify’s evolution in AI adoption, moving from simple chat tools to a sophisticated swarm of specialized agents. He explains the transition from massive "all-in-one" prompts to lean, narrow-focused agent microservices that slash task times from hours to minutes. He also shares a future-looking hypothesis on using filesystem-based adapters to solve context bloat.
By Paulo Arruda
Backlogs in distributed systems are arithmetic problems, not mysteries. This article provides practical formulas for calculating backlog drain time, sizing consumer headroom, and setting auto-scaling triggers. It covers key failure modes — retry amplification, metastable states, and cascading pipeline bottlenecks — plus when to shed load instead of draining.
By Rajesh Kumar Pandey
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