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Bulletin for Friday, 03 Nov 2023

7 days digest


Probably Overthinking It (1)


Svix Blog (1)


Andrew Helwer (1)


Netflix TechBlog - Medium (1)


The CircleCI Blog Feed | CircleCI (1)


allegro.tech (1)


Austin Z. Henley's Blog (1)


Earthly Blog (1)


ongoing by Tim Bray (1)


Jorengarenar (1)


Discord Blog (1)


Notes on software development (1)


The Technium (1)


Ken Shirriff's blog (1)


Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (1)


Stay SaaSy (1)


frankdenneman.nl (1)


Computer Things (1)


The Ably Blog (1)


Stratechery by Ben Thompson (1)


Stephen Wolfram Writings (1)


Julia Evans (1)


Engineer’s Codex (1)


LinkedIn Engineering (1)


Engineering at Meta (1)


The Hacker Factor Blog (1)


The Pragmatic Engineer (1)


PlanetScale - Blog (1)


Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog (1)


Google AI Blog (2)


Krebs on Security (2)


Amazon Science homepage (2)


The Cloudflare Blog (2)


Ratfactor Feed (2)


Weaveworks (2)


Blog on Tailscale (3)


David Heinemeier Hansson (4)


taylor.town (4)


DTN (4)


SigNoz Blog (5)


Blog – Hackaday (5)


Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (5)


Stack Overflow Blog (5)


Timescale Blog (6)


Changelog Master Feed (6)


Towards Data Science - Medium (6)


Percona Database Performance Blog (7)


Simon Willison's Weblog: Blogmarks (8)


The Full Feed - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts (8)


MIT Technology Review (10)


APNIC Blog (10)


Simon Willison's Weblog (10)


LogRocket Blog (12)


https://www.allendowney.com/blog

Recently a shoe store in France ran a promotion called “Rob It to Get It”, which invited customers to try to steal something by grabbing it and running out of the store. But there was a catch — the “security guard” was a professional sprinter, Méba Mickael Zeze. As you would expect, he is fast, but you might not appreciate how much faster he is than an average runner, or even a good runner. Why? That’s the topic of Chapter... Read More Read More (BACK TO TOP)

https://www.svix.com/blog/

We take a look at Intuit's webhook docs to see what they do well and what they could improve. (BACK TO TOP)

https://ahelwer.ca/

TLA⁺ sees a lot of use modeling distributed systems. The ability to explore all possible interleavings of events makes concurrency simple to reason about. For this TLA⁺ uses something called finite model-checking, which is really just a breadth-first search through the entire state space. The key here - and this really must be emphasized - is that the model is finite. There can’t be an infinite number of states, or of course the model checker will run forever. (BACK TO TOP)

https://netflixtechblog.com

How Netflix’s Container Platform Connects Linux Kernel Panics to Kubernetes Pods By Kyle Anderson With a recent effort to reduce customer (engineers, not end users) pain on our container platform Titus , I started investigating “orphaned” pods. There are pods that never got to finish and had to be garbage collected with no real satisfactory final status. Our Service job (think ReplicatSet ) owners don’t care too much, but our Batch users care a lot.titus.netflix...2xlarge/, BIOS 1...IP.IP. (BACK TO TOP)

https://circleci.com/blog/

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https://blog.allegro.tech

The idea for this article arose during a meeting where we learned that our supervisor would be leaving the company to pursue new opportunities. In response, a colleague lamented that what we would miss most is the knowledge departing with the leader. Unfortunately, that’s how it goes. Not only do we lose a colleague, but we also lose valuable knowledge and experience. When they leave, they take with them knowledge that you won’t find in any book, note, or Jira ticket. Prof.wikipedia.wikipedia. (BACK TO TOP)

https://austinhenley.com/blog.html

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https://earthly.dev/blog/

Data generation on the web has been increasing at an unprecedented rate. As this volume of data generated by various web applications, devices, and services continues to grow, traditional methods of handling data and communication between various components, systems, and services have become inadequate. This is where distributed messaging systems come into play. These systems can handle large volumes of data while allowing systems to communicate and interoperate seamlessly. Kafka architecture. (BACK TO TOP)

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ongoing.atom

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https://jorengarenar.github.io/blog/

Initially I wanted to write a full fledged text about the topic, but then I've found a decade old article Why the Second Generation of Video Game Consoles Is Really Two Distinct and Separate Generations by Rev. Robert A. Vinciguerra on the archive of their blog The Rev. (BACK TO TOP)

https://discord.com

Looking to get more organized, or quiet your notifications to better focus on your conversations? Here are nine things that can make hanging out with friends on Discord easier. (BACK TO TOP)

http://notes.eatonphil.com/

With Postgres 12 , released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine . This is a feature MySQL has supported for a long time. There are at least 8 different built-in engines you can pick from. MyRocks , MySQL on RocksDB, is another popular third-party distribution. I assume there will be a renaissance of Postgres storage engines. To date, the efforts are nascent. OrioleDB and Citus Columnar are two promising third-party table access methods being actively developed.g.0. (BACK TO TOP)

https://kk.org/thetechnium

Yes, you can teach an AI (LLM) to forget specific things, but this requires the AI to intensely learn the thing first in order to unlearn it by inventing substitutions. Important new paper describes this interesting research: Who’s Harry Potter? … Continue reading → (BACK TO TOP)

http://www.righto.com/

Introduced in 1973, Ethernet is the predominant way of wiring computers together. Chips were soon introduced to handle the low-level aspects of Ethernet: converting data packets into bits, implementing checksums, and handling network collisions. In 1982, Intel announced the i82586 Ethernet LAN coprocessor chip, which went much further by offloading most of the data movement from the main processor to an on-chip coprocessor. The die photo below shows the i82586 chip. One bit of the counter. E.g. (BACK TO TOP)

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/think-fast-talk-smart-podcast

What if you had that job? What if you were with that person? What if there’s a better option out there? If you find yourself asking these questions, Patrick McGinnis invented the term for what you’re experiencing: FOMO. First coined by McGinnis in a piece published by the Harvard Business School newspaper, FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) describes the anxiety we feel when thinking that other people are having more fun and living more fulfilling lives than we are. I am missing out on something. (BACK TO TOP)

https://staysaasy.com/

Remember playing Make-Believe as a kid? We’re knights in King Arthur’s court, and we’re going to seek the Holy Grail. We’re astronauts on a mission to outer space, and the backyard is an alien planet. We’re building a pillow fort – it’s our castle for the afternoon. Make-Believe is a fun, harmless fantasy game for all the kids in the neighborhood to enjoy. Internal alignment on velocity is vital – we should have a department just for internal training on how to be more efficient.e. you . (BACK TO TOP)

https://frankdenneman.nl/

I’m looking forward to next week’s VMware Explore conference in Barcelona. It’s going to be a busy week. Hopefully, I will meet many old friends, make new friends, and talk about Gen AI all week. I’m presenting a few sessions, listed below, and meeting with customers to talk about the VMware Private AI foundation. If […] The post Gen AI Sessions at Explore Barcelona 2023 appeared first on frankdenneman.nl . (BACK TO TOP)

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne

I know I'm getting the newsletter out very late this week (this kind of lackadaisical nonprofessionalism is why I don't offer paid subscriptions) so I'll keep this one short. Over the past couple weeks I've seen a few TLA+ articles where people show how to solve the wolf-cabbage-goat puzzle . I prefer to teach with examples of real-world systems. A similar example is the SEND MORE MONEY puzzle in all the constraint solving books: assign unique digits to letters such that SEND + MORE = MONEY... (BACK TO TOP)

https://ably.com

Learn how to create a captioning system which works in realtime using Ably and Deepgram. (BACK TO TOP)

https://stratechery.com

Innovation required humility about the future and openness to what might be possible; Biden's executive order proscribing AI development is the opposite, blocking progress and hindering the solutions to our greatest challenges. (BACK TO TOP)

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com

Transcript of a talk at TED AI on October 17, 2023, in San Francisco Human language. Mathematics. Logic. These are all ways to formalize the world. And in our century there’s a new and yet more powerful one: computation. And for nearly 50 years I’ve had the great privilege of building an ever taller tower […] (BACK TO TOP)

http://jvns.ca/atom.xml

Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that after almost 15 years of using git, I’ve become very used to git’s idiosyncracies and it’s easy for me to forget what’s confusing about it. Here’s a list of the terms: HEAD and “heads” “detached HEAD state” “ours” and “theirs” while merging or rebasing “Your branch is up to date with ‘origin/main’” HEAD^, HEAD~ HEAD^^, HEAD~~, HEAD^2, HEAD~2 .. Here’s a quick summary: “heads” are “branches”.git/refs/heads .git/HEAD . (BACK TO TOP)

https://engineercodex.substack.com

A mindset shift that changed the way I approach software development. The #1 trait of valuable software engineers. (BACK TO TOP)

https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog.rss.html

(This article originally appeared on LinkedIn) Advancements in AI are already starting to transform jobs, skills, and career paths, and we know that our members and customers are thinking about the implications for this new world of work. That’s why I’m excited to share that we’re rolling out a new AI-powered LinkedIn Premium experience, starting with a selected group of US based Premium subscribers today. (BACK TO TOP)

https://engineering.fb.com/

Meta’s Systematic Code and Asset Removal Framework (SCARF) has a subsystem for identifying and removing unused data types. SCARF scans production data systems to identify tables or assets that are unused and safely removes them. SCARF avoids tedious manual work and ensures that product data is correctly removed when a product is shut down. This [...] Read More... The post Automating data removal appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/

A few blog entries ago, I wrote about problems with helping other people with their computers. (Most of the problems were due to the software and not the people.) This turned into a discussion about automating the monitoring of the elderly and making a minimal " Are you okay? " system. My solution uses a very simple script to monitor their computer for signs of activity since they all use their computers fairly regularly. While monitoring the computer is a good start, it's still not ideal. (BACK TO TOP)

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/

This year, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have all suffered comparable regional outages. How did they respond, and why do Azure’s processes stand out compared to its rivals? (BACK TO TOP)

https://planetscale.com

Learn how you can extract, load, and transform your PlanetScale data with Fivetran. (BACK TO TOP)

https://hacks.mozilla.org/

To deliver against our vision and enable a better online experience for everyone, we’ve been working hard on making Firefox even faster. We’re extremely happy to report that this has resulted in a significant improvement in speed over the past year. The post Down and to the Right: Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023 appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog . (BACK TO TOP)

http://blog.research.google/

Posted by Samier Merchant, Google Research, and Nal Kalchbrenner, Google DeepMind Forecasting weather variables such as precipitation, temperature, and wind is key to numerous aspects of society, from daily planning and transportation to energy production. As we continue to see more extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, and heat waves, accurate forecasts can be essential to preparing for and mitigating their effects.g. The main components of densification are illustrated below. (BACK TO TOP)

Posted by Xiaoran "Van" Fan, Experimental Scientist, and Trausti Thormundsson, Director, Google The market for true wireless stereo (TWS) active noise canceling (ANC) hearables (headphones and earbuds) has been soaring in recent years, and the global shipment volume will nearly double that of smart wristbands and watches in 2023. The on-head time for hearables has extended significantly due to the recent advances in ANC, transparency mode, and artificial intelligence.g.e.g.g.g.g. (BACK TO TOP)

https://krebsonsecurity.com

One of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. Here’s a closer look at the Russia-based SWAT USA Drop Service, which currently employs more than 1,200 people across the United States who are knowingly or unwittingly involved in reshipping expensive consumer goods purchased with stolen credit cards. (BACK TO TOP)

The top-level domain for the United States -- .US -- is home to thousands of newly-registered domains tied to a malicious link shortening service that facilitates malware and phishing scams, new research suggests. The findings come close on the heels of a report that identified .US domains as among the most prevalent in phishing attacks over the past year. (BACK TO TOP)

https://www.amazon.science/

New method improves the state of the art in knowledge distillation by leveraging a knowledge base of teacher predictions. (BACK TO TOP)

Motion vectors — which are common in popular video formats — can be used to efficiently track regions of interest across multiple frames of video to generate motion-aware masks that improve video representation learning. (BACK TO TOP)

http://blog.cloudflare.com

Multiple Cloudflare services were unavailable for 37 minutes on October 30, 2023, due to the misconfiguration of a deployment tool used by Workers KV. (BACK TO TOP)

Today we're excited to announce Traffic Anomalies notifications, which proactively alert you when your Internet property is seeing an unexpected change in traffic patterns (BACK TO TOP)

http://ratfactor.com/atom.xml

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https://www.weave.works/

Cumbersome processes can slow down software deployments to a crawl, and organizations start facing not just operational hiccups but a developer experience (DX) crisis. Ignoring the warning signs of a poor DX is like letting a small leak sink a great ship. This article zeroes in on those critical red flags that signal your DX needs urgent attention and introduces Weave GitOps Enterprise platform engineering capabilities as the game-changing strategy to turn the tide. #1. #2. #3. #4. #5. #6. (BACK TO TOP)

For the past couple of weeks we have been working on a new concept of weekly informal chats on GitOps, Kubernetes and cloud native. Joe Dahlquist, VP of Product Marketing, is inviting a rotating cast of colleagues, friends and partners in the community to discuss Flux CD, open source and other trending software development topics.  Flux CD, an open-source GitOps operator, has been on an incredible journey, recently adding the Flux plugin for Backstage to its portfolio of extensions . (BACK TO TOP)

https://tailscale.com/blog/

Tailscale is a programmable network that lets you manage connections between your resources in a declarative way using ACLs , so you can define specifically which users should be able to connect to which services in your environment. Although Tailscale isn’t a service mesh per se, you can use it to connect Kubernetes services to each other. Today, we’re releasing the Tailscale Kubernetes operator to beta .type to LoadBalancer . Set spec.loadBalancerClass to tailscale .com/tailnet-ip: 100.68.29. (BACK TO TOP)

At Tailscale, we are constantly making performance improvements, adding new features, and fixing bugs in the Tailscale client. To make it easier for you to get those improvements, we’re adding auto-update support on all platforms where Tailscale runs. For example, when we release a security fix, nodes that enable auto-updates get patched as soon as possible. Some platforms (like Apple App Store and Google Play Store) already do the heavy-lifting for us.52.52 — auto-updates are off by default. (BACK TO TOP)

Tailscale Serve and Funnel aren’t new features, but today, we’re enhancing their user experience based on insights from how users actually interact with them. Not to get too philosophical, but the most useful features are the features you actually use, and we hope that today’s relaunch of Serve and Funnel moves them closer to the top of our users’ toolkits. Bottom line up front: In Tailscale 1. But wait, wait, wait. Let’s back up. Learn more about how Funnel works behind the scenes .pango-lin.0. (BACK TO TOP)

https://world.hey.com/dhh

I've owned a lot of great cars in my time. It's been one of the few places where hitting it big has allowed for something that wouldn't otherwise be possible. From Lamborghini to Pagani, Porsche to Ferrari, Aston Martin to Bentley, I have owned and loved them all. A+ use of lottery money, would do it again! It's against all these delightful automotive experiences that I've been shocked at how utterly compelling the Tesla Model S Plaid has revealed itself to be. It's mostly about the drivetrain. (BACK TO TOP)

During my three years in Denmark, I invested in five local startups. All on the premise that we'd work towards becoming profitable, remaining in the country, and avoiding the VC timebomb . The one that has already fulfilled all the objectives is Workfeed , and now they're ready to take on the American market. It's a proud moment! Workfeed makes employee scheduling software. That's exactly the kind of drudgery that software was meant to solve, and Workfeed does an amazing job at this. So. (BACK TO TOP)

The most counterintuitive of the Stoic mental exercises is that of negative visualization. Willfully imagining all manner of terrible things that might befall you, but haven't yet. Described like this, it sorta sounds like a fancy word of anxiety, but if you look closer, it's in fact its opposite. Nobody makes it through life entirely on easy mode, and if you haven't done any manner of mental preparation, even small setbacks can seem calamitous. So you really ought to prepare. Exactly. (BACK TO TOP)

Musk has taken a cleaver to the costs and complexity at X. It hasn't always been pretty, but it sure has been effective, and in the process, he's proven his detractors wrong time and again. Not only has the site stayed up, despite hysteric proclamations that it would crater soon after his personnel changes, but X has been able to increase the pace of experimentation and feature introductions at the same time. It's been impressive to watch, regardless of what you think of the politics involved. (BACK TO TOP)

https://taylor.town/feed.xml

OpenAI provides a Google Form for opting out of data collection on ChatGPT . They'll eventually send you a link to this portal , which seems to do the same thing. When you use our non-API consumer services ChatGPT or DALL-E, we may use the data you provide us to improve our models. You can switch off training in ChatGPT settings (under Data Controls) to turn off training for any conversations created while training is disabled or you can submit this form . — Privacy policy (BACK TO TOP)

I feel like a battery that can't keep its charge. Chronic fatigue is my greatest foe. I have a lot of things I want to do, and I have to wedge it all between uncontrollable "emergency naps". Narcolepsy medication is godsend when I get my dosage right, but I have a very small habitable zone between panic-attack and asleep. To avoid stimulant meltdowns, I err on the side of naps. My capabilities shrink as I tire. I need lots of brainpower to build software, but very little to wash dishes. 2. 3. 5. (BACK TO TOP)

"It never ends," you say. Chores choose to camp on your todo-lists without invitation. "We'll just be here for a day or two," they say. Fifty months later, you still haven't replaced that lightbulb. Common Queues Most people encounter garden-variety infinite queues: emails, messages, calls, etc. personal projects/ambitions eating, grooming, sleeping, exercise, etc. commitments; obligations caretaking books, films, etc. career; money; bills repairs Queues flow at inconsistent rates. (BACK TO TOP)

I'm envious of therapists. After years of study and practice, many develop an uncanny ability to evoke and listen. They speak fearlessly but fairly. They're strong, yet nonthreatening. They push back while maintaining peace. I yearn for this powerless power. I want to listen without planning my next sentences. I want to hear stories uncolored by my opinions. I want to help people feel safe enough to prod all their heart's hidden chambers. I want to be unafraid of others' emotions. I, I, I... (BACK TO TOP)

https://www.dtn.com/

Forget fire sales. Avoid penalties. See how greater inventory accuracy can help grow your business and bottom line through improved forecasts and efficiencies. The post Total inventory control is possible appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)

In a year already punctuated with weather extremes, all eyes are on winter. Find out what Jim Foerster and the DTN long-range meteorologists predict. The post El Niño Factors In Winter Weather Outlook appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)

Today's producers have access to more data than previously imagined. Learn how to prioritize the right insights and which technology types can help drive data-informed decisions. The post Ag Tech Talk Highlights Importance of Data Priority appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)

The quest for optimal voyage planning and cost efficiency is a constant in maritime transportation. See how Optimal Speed Routing redefines voyage optimization. The post Maximizing Maritime Performance Analysis Through Optimal Speed Routing appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)

https://signoz.io/blog

Kubecon 2023 is coming up in just a week in Chicago. For engnineers concerned with observability, there are a number of talks you can't miss. I wrote up this guide to the talks I'm most looking forward to. (BACK TO TOP)

Kubernetes logging is critical to monitor the health and performance of applications running in Kubernetes cluster. In this complete guide on Kubernetes logging, we will learn about K8s log types, how to access k8s logs, and setting up k8s log monitoring with open-source tools... (BACK TO TOP)

Are you looking for a Splunk alternative? Here are the top 11 Splunk alternatives that you can consider. 1.SigNoz 2.Graylog 3.Loggly 4.Dynatrace 5.New Relic 6.DataDog... (BACK TO TOP)

Imagine you want to debug a slow web service. What would you need? Well, you might want to use a tool (called flamegraphs) to see which functions in your code, or even in other services, are causing this slowdown. This way, you can focus your optimization efforts where they'll have the most... (BACK TO TOP)

Learn about key metrics that you need to monitor for your RabbitMQ cluster. Key RabbitMQ metrics can be divided into four sections - 1.Operational 2.Latency and Reliability 3.System Health 4.Custom Metrics... (BACK TO TOP)

https://hackaday.com

Hot off the heels of their musical debut 6502 song the good folk at the Taylor and Amy Show are at it again. This time instead of assaulting our auditory senses, they play with …read more (BACK TO TOP)

Hackers love random numbers, or more accurately, the pursuit of them. It turns out that computers are so good at following our exacting instructions that they are largely incapable of …read more (BACK TO TOP)

For amateur radio operators, the quest for the perfect antenna never seems to end. Perhaps that’s because our requirements are always changing. We never quite seem to get to one …read more (BACK TO TOP)

Imagine trying to read a 2000-year old scroll from an ancient civilization. Now imagine that scroll is rolled up, and in a delicate, charred, carbonized form, having been engulfed by …read more (BACK TO TOP)

Do you ever find yourself eating walnuts and think, this would make a great enclosure for something like a Bluetooth speaker? That seems to be exactly what happened to [Penguin …read more (BACK TO TOP)

https://pluralistic.net

Today's links Social Security is class war, not intergenerational conflict: If conservatives were really interested in millennial life-chances, they'd demand inheritance taxes, not Social Security cuts. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. After all, a reserve army of forelock-tugging plebs and family retainers won't voluntarily assemble themselves – they need to be goaded into it by the threat of slowly starving to death in their dotage. They're at it again (again).wikipedia.org/wiki/I.O.U. (BACK TO TOP)

Today's links The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate "solutions": "All of the above" is a highly selective proposition. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. We have to do "all of the above" – every possible solution must be tried. In his new book Dark PR, Grant Ennis explains that this "all of the above" strategy doesn't represent a change of heart by big business. For starters, carbon offsets are a classic market for lemons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tesla,_Inc.theguardian. (BACK TO TOP)

Today's links Zuck's gravity-defying metaverse money-pit: $46.5 billion incinerated and he's richer than ever. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Take the metaverse. Zuck's "pivot" to a virtual world he ripped off from a quarter-century old cyberpunk novel (reminder: cyberpunk is a warning, not a suggestion) was born of desperation. Zuck fancies himself an avatar of the Emperor Augustus (that's why he has that haircut) (no, really). That's not Zuck's problem at all.bloomberg. That is: $46. (BACK TO TOP)

Today's links A media literacy handbook for Israel-Gaza: A new "breaking news consumer handbook" from On The Media. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/breaking-news-consumers-handbook-israel-and-gaza-edition-on-the-media The latest handbook is an Israel-Gaza edition. It doesn't aim to parse fine distinctions over the definition of "occupation" or identify the source of shell fragments.wnyc.org/media/resources/2023/Oct/27/BNCH_ISRAEL_GAZA_EDITION_1. II. (BACK TO TOP)

Today's links A taxonomy of corporate bullshit: The six lies they've always told. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.com/books/corporate-bullsht In his review for The American Prospect, David Dayen summarizes how these six lies "offer a civic-minded, reasonable-sounding justification for positions that in fact are motivated entirely by self-interest": https://prospect.org/culture/books/2023-10-27-lies-my-corporation-told-me-hanauer-walsh-cohen-review/ I." This tactic never went away." II. (BACK TO TOP)

https://stackoverflow.blog/

AI is garbage in, garbage out, so feed it good data. (BACK TO TOP)

Check out some of the new features and updates we’ve recently added on collectives. (BACK TO TOP)

Giamir Buoncristiani, tech lead for the Stacks design system at Stack Overflow, joins Ryan for a conversation about all things front end, including how he joined Stack with a mandate to modernize the front-end user interface and why Stack Overflow developers are such big fans of Svelte. (BACK TO TOP)

The opportunities for edge computing are huge—but so are the memory requirements. (BACK TO TOP)

The home team chats with Alex Bovee, cofounder and CEO of identity access management company ConductorOne, about balancing security and productivity in developer workflows, why tech companies have shifted everything left, and the logic behind zero trust. (BACK TO TOP)

https://www.timescale.com/blog/

Read how we used Timescale to scale a 350 TB+ PostgreSQL database to build Insights, our new database observability tool. (BACK TO TOP)

Scale database connections without consuming your compute resources: say hello to Timescale’s connection pooler, hosted PgBouncer. (BACK TO TOP)

Experience in-depth database monitoring with Insights. Optimize your query performance, including timings, memory, and disk usage. (BACK TO TOP)

Mature applications require a mature cloud platform. Introducing the new Timescale Enterprise Tier, designed for your demanding data and business needs. (BACK TO TOP)

Introducing a new way to migrate your multi-terabyte PostgreSQL database to Timescale with (almost) zero downtime—live migrations. (BACK TO TOP)

Boring is still awesome. Follow along our Cloud Week as we present our vision of a mature cloud platform. (BACK TO TOP)

https://changelog.com/master

Jean Yang’s research on programming languages at Carnegie Mellon led her to realize that APIs are the layer that makes or breaks quality software systems. Unfortunately, developers are underserved by tools for dealing with, securing & understanding APIs. That realization led her to found Akita Software, which led her to join Postman by way of acquisition. That move, at least in part, also led her to join us on this very podcast. We think you’re going to enjoy this interview, we sure did. (BACK TO TOP)

Filippo Valsorda & Roland Shoemaker from the Go Team sit down with Natalie to catch us up on what’s new in Go’s crypto libraries. No, not that crypto… good ol’ cryptography! (BACK TO TOP)

We’re excited to have Tuhin join us on the show once again to talk about self-hosting open access models. Tuhin’s company Baseten specializes in model deployment and monitoring at any scale, and it was a privilege to talk with him about the trends he is seeing in both tooling and usage of open access models. We were able to touch on the common use cases for integrating self-hosted models and how the boom in generative AI has influenced that ecosystem. (BACK TO TOP)

The hubbub of the web dev world right now is Next.js’ integration of React Server Components, Kent C. Dodds writes up why he doesn’t use Next, Lee Robinson responds with why he does, the NixOS team hits a milestone in their reproducible builds effort & OpenSign is an open source alternative to DocuSign. (BACK TO TOP)

Jared Henderson joins us to discuss the state of the art in software parental controls and how we protect our children and lock down our home networks from the constant onslaught of malicious and unwanted content. (BACK TO TOP)

This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of All Things Open 2023 in Raleigh, NC. Today’s episode features: Matthew Sanabria (former Engineer at HashiCorp working on Terraform Enterprise), Nithya Ruff (Chief Open Source Officer and Head of the Open Source Program Office at Amazon) & Jordan Harband (Open Source Maintainer-at-large with dependencies in most JavaScript apps out there. (BACK TO TOP)

https://towardsdatascience.com

A roadmap to avoiding the “default path” and finding fulfilment in work Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)

There’s a reason you’re confused Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)

Compare Apple Silicon M2 Max GPU performances to Nvidia V100, P100, and T4 for training MLP, CNN, and LSTM models with TensorFlow. Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)

We have a soft spot for long, thorough guides here at TDS—but we also appreciate focused posts targeting specific challenges and pain points that data scientists face in their day-to-day work. To celebrate these highly useful and practical articles, this week’s Variable turns the spotlight on recent highlights from our Tips & Tricks column: they offer actionable, tried-and-true advice that can help you save time and effort and produce better results in your projects. (BACK TO TOP)

Why to choose them, and how to create them Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)

Generating AI images in multiple languages leads to different results Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)

https://www.percona.com/blog/

Ready to supercharge your MongoDB experience?MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Upgrading to the newest release of MongoDB is the key to unlocking its full potential, but it’s not as simple as clicking a button; it requires meticulous planning, precise execution, and a deep […] (BACK TO TOP)

On October 24th, the Percona Kubernetes Squad held the first Ask-me-Anything (AMA) session to address inquiries regarding the utilization of Kubernetes for database deployment. This blog post will outline the top three questions raised during the session and provide thorough responses from our team of experts.Q1: When is it appropriate to use Kubernetes for databases, […] (BACK TO TOP)

Namespaces in Kubernetes provide a way to isolate groups of resources within a single cluster. They are useful in multi-tenant environments with a few to tens of users and teams. They also allow dividing cluster resources between these users through quotas.Percona Operators come with cluster-wide and namespace-scope deployments. When you have a multi-namespace Kubernetes cluster, it poses a question of which […] (BACK TO TOP)

Sometimes, there is a need to update the table and index statistics manually using the ANALYZE TABLE command. Without going further into the reasons for such a need, I wanted to refresh this subject in terms of overhead related to running the command on production systems. However, the overhead discussed here is unrelated to the […] (BACK TO TOP)

Percona has a mission to provide the best open source database software, support, and services so our users can innovate freely.We are proud of how far we have come over the last 16+ years. Continuing this trajectory into the future improvements in the development of our software products will require many decisions. Our hope is […] (BACK TO TOP)

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona software is designed for peak performance, uncompromised security, limitless scalability, and disaster-proofed availability.Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, […] (BACK TO TOP)

Hello friends,In Managed Services, we have the opportunity to see different technologies and various topologies, which makes the work fascinating and challenging at the same time.This time, I’m going to tell you about a particular case: a client with a dual-primary topology plus a replica, as detailed below: [crayon-6543d0f0aaf95176254669/] [RW] means Read/Write access. [R] means Read […] (BACK TO TOP)

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Grab a rundown of what to expect at KubeCon NA this year as Kubernetes Unpacked co-host Michael Levan prepares to hit the conference floor. The post KU039: Prepping For KubeCon North America 2023 appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)

DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation (DHCPv6-PD) is an IETF RFC that lets a router delegate a long-lived prefix, using DHCP, to a requesting router. The hosts discuss how this is used today both by service providers and in the enterprise, and potential impacts on address allocation and planning. The post IPv6 Buzz 138: Making Sense Of DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation (DHCPv6-PD) appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)

AI and machine learning are being more widely used in IT and elsewhere. Today's episode opens the AI magic box to better understand what's inside, including software and hardware. We discuss essentials such as training models and parameters, software components, GPUs, networking, and storage. We also discuss using cloud-based AI platforms vs. building your own in-house, and what to consider when assembling your own AI infrastructure. (BACK TO TOP)

Two Wi-Fi engineers share their experiences automating wireless workflows, including the role of Python & tools like Postman. The post HW014: Exploring Wireless Automation From Python To APIs appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)

The Full Stack Journey is coming to an end. After five years and more than 80 episodes of deeply technical conversations about technologies, tools, and career journeys, this is the final episode of the series. I reflect on my time hosting the podcast, the challenges and pleasures of putting together a show, lessons and insights from all the conversations I've had, thoughts on the state of IT and technology, and what comes next. (BACK TO TOP)

AI is making its way into network operations, and on today’s episode, sponsored by Nokia, we talk about how Nokia has developed a ChatGPT-based application that runs on its SR Linux network OS. Network engineers can use this app to query about network state, ask troubleshooting questions, check configurations, search logs, and quickly sort through reams of documentation. The post Tech Bytes: Nokia’s ChatGPT App Lets Engineers Query The Network (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)

Today's episode includes Cisco patching a critical vulnerability affecting IOS-XE gear, startup Prosimo releasing a cost calculator to help network engineers track their public cloud networking costs, and Juniper integrating its SD-WAN to the AWS cloud WAN. We also cover Cisco's investment in a quantum networking startup, growing DPU sales, and Intel divesting from pluggable optical modules. (BACK TO TOP)

AI and machine learning are finally being applied to networking in meaningful ways. On today's sponsored show we talk with Selector about its AIOps platform, which ingests networking logs, flows, configurations, SNMP, and other telemetry to detect patterns, spot problems, and provide contextual insights to help network engineers do their jobs better. We speak with Selector about what it is, how it works, and concrete use cases. (BACK TO TOP)

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When considering the potential for AI systems to change manufacturing, Ritu Jyoti, global AI research lead at market-intelligence firm IDC, points to windmill manufacturers. To improve windmills before AI, she says, the company analyzed data from observing a functioning prototype, a process that took weeks. Now, the manufacturer has dramatically shortened the process using a… (BACK TO TOP)

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime Tokelau, a string of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last place on… (BACK TO TOP)

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. There are growing signs of trouble for the multibillion-dollar global carbon market, as investigative stories and studies continue to erode the credibility of the business world’s go-to tool for cleaning up climate… (BACK TO TOP)

Tokelau, a necklace of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last place on Earth to be connected to the telephone—only in 1997.  Just three years later, the islands received a fax with an unlikely business proposal that would change everything. It was from an early internet… (BACK TO TOP)

It’s a stormy holiday weekend, and you’ve just received the last notification you want in the busiest travel week of the year: the first leg of your flight is significantly delayed. You might expect this means you’ll be sitting on hold with airline customer service for half an hour. But this time, the process looks… (BACK TO TOP)

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What are the hardest problems in tech we should be more focused on as a society? Technology is all about solving big thorny problems, yet one of the hardest things is knowing where… (BACK TO TOP)

For all of history we’ve turned to technology, again and again, to help us solve our hardest problems. Technology gave us warmth and light when it was cold and dark. It helped us pull fish from the sea and crops from the earth so we would not be hungry. It enabled us to cross over… (BACK TO TOP)

Technology is all about solving big thorny problems. Yet one of the hardest things about solving hard problems is knowing where to focus our efforts. There are so many urgent issues facing the world. Where should we even begin? So we asked dozens of people to identify what problem at the intersection of technology and… (BACK TO TOP)

This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Last week, I worked with my colleague Antonio Regalado, our senior editor for biomedicine, to break a truly inspiring and honestly kind of wild story: Chinese scientists used gene therapy to restore… (BACK TO TOP)

Over the past few years, the treatment of some hard-to-treat blood cancers has been revolutionized by therapies based on engineered T cells, which leverage the patient’s own immune system to destroy cancerous cells. But until recently researchers haven’t had much luck developing these T-cell therapies—called CAR T—for solid tumors, which make up the vast majority… (BACK TO TOP)

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Guest Post: Comparing different approaches to networking and their impacts on pricing. (BACK TO TOP)

The lives of IPv6 and APNIC have parallels. (BACK TO TOP)

Adli Wahid presented on mining bots and conducted training at the MNSEC Conference 2023, held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on 5 October 2023. (BACK TO TOP)

Guest Post: A comprehensive, longitudinal characterization of DNS queries received at B-Root over ten years. (BACK TO TOP)

Shane Hermoso presented on RPKI and IPv6 at VNIX-NOG 2023, held in Da Lat, Viet Nam from 5 to 6 October 2023. (BACK TO TOP)

Da Nang in Viet Nam will host APNIC 60 in 2025 and more details on APNIC 58. (BACK TO TOP)

Breaking down how APNIC Labs measures the adoption of DNSSEC validation. (BACK TO TOP)

Guest Post: Understanding the experiences of women participating in the IETF. (BACK TO TOP)

Guest Post: Documenting ethical considerations, potential consequences, and lessons learned from public disclosure. (BACK TO TOP)

Pablo Hinojosa organized and moderated a session on future-proofing the 'public core' of the Internet at the TWIGF 2023, held in Taipei from 3 to 5 October 2023. (BACK TO TOP)

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Here, we explore three exceptional AI-powered tools that can convert text to wireframes and address each's pros and cons. The post Using text-to-wireframe generators for quick design iteration appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)

A company’s product mix refers to its portfolio of product lines, services, and individual products available for purchase or subscription. The post An overview of product mix appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)

In this guide, we will explore what makes SolidJS a fantastic choice for building fast, user-friendly, and highly performant apps. The post SolidJS adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)

Adam Nicholson, VP of Product Management at AgileOne, discusses how he builds trust in his teams and with customers. The post Leader Spotlight: Standing behind what you say, with Adam Nicholson appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)

In this article, you will learn the difference between lagging and leading metrics and how you can use them to optimize your product. The post A guide to leading vs. lagging indicators appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)

Explore the impact of React Server Components on performance and bundle size and learn how they compare to traditional React components. The post React Server Components: A comprehensive guide appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)

Figma makes it easy for designers to crop and mask images without third-party tools, which is critical for visually appealing interfaces. The post How to crop a shape in Figma appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)

Using an in-app browser can vastly improve UX in mobile apps. Learn how you can use react-native-inappbrowser-reborn to do just that. The post Improving mobile UX with react-native-inappbrowser-reborn appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)

A project timeline is a visual representation of the tasks, milestones, and deliverables involved in developing and delivering a product. The post A guide to setting project timelines appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)

An operating model is the crossroad between strategy (why you do what you do) and process (how you do what you do). The post What is the Product Operating Model? appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)

Astro integrations are key to customizing your site's behavior. Learn how to insert them in the right areas of the hooks lifecycle here. The post Understanding Astro integrations and the hooks lifecycle appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)

State management is a very relevant concept in modern app development, especially for single-page applications. It is used to control and monitor actions, user inputs, and responses from a server. Developers often use popular libraries like Redux and MobX to manage state in React applications. However, these solutions mostly provide a way to access data […] The post Using Crystalize.js with React for dynamic state management appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)

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