September 2012 Blog Posts (4)

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Pandora and Tom Conrad (CTO)

Have you ever wondered how Pandora works? Listen to this Swampcast interview with Tom Conrad, CTO as he explains Pandora's music genome project.

Added by Michael Levin on September 29, 2012 at 10:30am — No Comments

Nighthacking (via Stephen Chin)

NightHacking Tour

The Road to Devoxx - Oct 29 to Nov 11 2012

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Added by Michael Levin on September 25, 2012 at 2:58pm — No Comments

Omni Fluent, a free computational linguistics app

Here's an app you'll like - it's called Omni Fluent and…

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Added by Michael Levin on September 25, 2012 at 11:01am — No Comments

Netbeans in Action

Netbeans is a free integrated development environment and it's not just for Java! You can use it with C++, PHP, JavaScript and Groovy. Check out some of the incredibly cool projects coded using Netbeans…

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Added by Michael Levin on September 25, 2012 at 8:14am — No Comments

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Welcome to Codetown!

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.

When you create a profile for yourself you get a personal page automatically. That's where you can be creative and do your own thing. People who want to get to know you will click on your name or picture and…
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Article: Is Your Test Suite Brittle? Maybe It’s Too DRY

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By Kimberly Hendrick

Allegro Reduces Kafka Producer Latency Outliers by 82% After Switching to XFS

Allegro experimented with different performance optimization options to improve Apache Kafka producer tail latency and eventually switched all its clusters to the XFS filesystem. The company used Kafka protocol sniffing, JVM profiling, and eBPF, which proved instrumental in identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks.

By Rafal Gancarz

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