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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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LinkedIn introduces Cognitive Memory Agent (CMA), generative AI infrastructure layer enabling stateful, context-aware systems. It provides persistent memory across episodic, semantic, and procedural layers, supporting multi-agent coordination, retrieval, and lifecycle management. CMA addresses LLM statelessness and enables production-grade personalization and long-term context in AI applications.
By Leela Kumili
Cheng Lou, a Midjourney engineer, recently released Pretext, a 15KB open-source TypeScript library that measures and lays out text without browser layout reflows, enabling advanced UX/UI patterns like infinite lists, masonry layouts, and scroll position anchoring to run at 60-120 fps. Pretext was built using an AI loop that reverse-engineered the DOM’s layout calculations.
By Bruno Couriol
Google has introduced subagents in Gemini CLI, a new capability designed to help developers delegate complex or repetitive tasks to specialized AI agents operating alongside a primary session.
By Robert Krzaczyński
Chris Tacey-Green discusses the shift from synchronous commands to asynchronous events within highly regulated environments. He explains the critical role of Inbox and Outbox patterns in preventing data loss, the nuances of event versioning, and how to maintain decoupling between domains. He shares "battle-tested" principles for implementing fault tolerance and managing eventual consistency.
By Chris Tacey-Green
This article details our migration from Apollo Federation to a TypeScript-based tRPC stack, which resulted in an 89% reduction in bugs and 67% faster response times. It also covers the mistakes we made, the unexpected performance gains, and an overview of the production architecture we use today to handle 2.4 million daily requests with 99.97% uptime.
By Dinesh Kumar Elumalai
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