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This video introduces developers to building apps on Google App Engine. For more in-depth informati… Tags: Engine, App Michael Levin Jan 26, 2009 138 views
Video of the "Conversation with Josh Bloch" from Pearson Education's Voices That Matter: Google Web… Tags: GWT, bloch Michael Levin Jan 26, 2009 146 views
Joshua Bloch, Chief Java Architect at Google, presents his Effective Java™ Programming Language Gui… Tags: bloch, java Michael Levin Jan 26, 2009 186 views
Q&A interview with Bruce Eckel, best selling author Tags: patterns, recipes Michael Levin Jan 26, 2009 126 views
Bruce Eckel covers what Open Spaces are how they are run, and resolves many misconceptions about 'U… Tags: conferences, eckel Michael Levin Jan 26, 2009 116 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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Amit Navindgi discusses the systematic shift at Zoox from fragmented documentation to an AI-driven ecosystem. He explains how they built "Cortex," a secure platform integrating RAG, multi-modal LLMs, and contributor-friendly agent APIs. He shares practical strategies for driving adoption through AI champions and hackathons, emphasizing the move from deterministic workflows to autonomous agents.
By Amit Navindgi
Moonrepo has released moon v2.0, its first major update since v1, featuring a plugin-based toolchain system and support for multiple configuration formats including JSON and TOML. The CLI has been restructured, enhancing task inheritance and Docker integration. Notable changes include a shift in architecture and improvements to VCS support.
By Daniel Curtis
Fast-scaling teams must rebuild trust and psychological safety as their social systems expand. Intentional, redundant communication across multiple formats can keep everyone aligned. Cross-team rituals, buddy systems, and rotating facilitators can reduce silos by building bridges between teams. Leaders accelerate this by modeling the vulnerability they want to see.
By Ben Linders
Pinterest identified and resolved CPU starvation issues that affected machine learning training jobs on its Kubernetes-based platform, PinCompute. The engineers traced the problem to an unused Amazon ECS agent, which caused memory cgroup leaks. By disabling the agent, they stabilised performance. This case illustrates the importance of understanding system defaults for effective troubleshooting.
By Mark Silvester
Anthropic published a postmortem tracing six weeks of Claude Code quality complaints to three overlapping product-layer changes: a reasoning effort downgrade, a caching bug that progressively erased the model's own thinking, and a system prompt verbosity limit that caused a 3% quality drop. The API and model weights were unaffected. All issues were resolved April 20.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
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