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Open Sourcing DOS 4
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A Logic Language for Distributed SQL Queries
A comprehensive look at the design of Polar, and how we enabled it to operate over distributed data.
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No Abstractions: our API design principle
This post explains one of the core design principle of Increase’s API, dubbed No Abstractions, which we’ve found useful as our product and company scale.
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Xz sshd backdoor collecting usernames from logs
The amazingly scary xz sshd backdoor, Author: Bojan Zdrnja
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A place I've never been to. A place I'll never go
I’ve always wanted to visit Market Village, but I never will. And neither will you.
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Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is Dead
IBM is buying HashiCorp for $6.4 billion. That's four months after HashiCorp rugpulled their entire development community and ditched open source for the 'Business Source License.' As someone on Hacker News pointed out so eloquently: IBM is like a juicer that takes all the delicious flavor out of a fruit skywhopper…
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MemoryDB: A fast and durable memory-first cloud database
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is a database service designed for 11 9s of durability with in-memory performance. In this paper, we describe the architecture of MemoryDB and how we leverage open-source Redis, a popular data structure store, to build an enterprise-grade cloud database. MemoryDB offloads…
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Fragmented thinking is a bigger threat to flow state than interruptions
What I learned after reading 14 studies about flow state
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Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way
If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.
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Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing
I've followed through on my commitment to interview in the tech industry without relying entirely on in-network referrals as I normally do (for a good reason - my network consists largely of the most competent people at mediocre companies!). It is dystopian out there. These are some anecdotes on my interviewing…
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The "it" in AI models is the dataset
I’ve been at OpenAI for almost a year now. In that time, I’ve trained a lot of generative models. More than anyone really has any right to train. As I’ve spent these hours observing the effects of tweaking various model configurations and h
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HTML Attributes vs. DOM Properties
They're completely different, but often coupled.
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Ruby might be faster than you think
I saw a project a couple weeks back which allows writing and running Crystal methods inline inside a Ruby file. It’s a neat project, and I don’t want to take away from it but something in the README example looked off to me. require 'crystalruby' require 'benchmark' module Fibonnaci crystalize [n:
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You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it
Here’s Dave Rupert ( from my notes ): the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking. I have to constantly remind myself of…
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Make invalid states unrepresentable (2023)
"Type-driven development"
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Autotuner: How to speed up your Rails app
Ruby’s garbage collector is designed to be adaptable, scaling from short Ruby scripts to running apps that serve millions of requests per second. While it’s designed to be adaptable, it may not work optimally for every use case. For this reason, Ruby’s garbage collector supports many parameters that can be used to…
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Magic Numbers
1500 bytes is a bit out there as numbers go, or at least it seems that way if you touch computers for a living. It’s not a power of two or anywhere close, it’s suspiciously base-ten-round, and computers don’t care all that much about base ten, so how did we get here?
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IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc for $6.4 billion
IBM and HashiCorp Inc., a leading multi-cloud infrastructure automation company, announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire HashiCorp for $35 per share in cash, representing an enterprise value of $6.4 billion.
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When do we stop finding new music?
When does our taste in music stagnate?
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TypeScript: Branded Types
How to brand TypeScript types for norminal typing, providing an automated and easy-to-use way of making a type nominal.
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Borrow Checking, RC, GC, and the Eleven () Other Memory Safety Approaches
Zeke: "Wait, so with generational references, we now have four ways to do memory safety?"
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Nvidia to Acquire Run:AI
To help customers make more efficient use of their AI computing resources, NVIDIA today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Run:ai, a Kubernetes-based workload management and orchestration software provider. Customer AI deployments are becoming increasingly complex, with workloads…
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PyPy v7.3.16
PyPy v7.3.16: release of python 2.7, 3.9, and 3.10 The PyPy team is proud to release version 7.3.16 of PyPy. This release includes security fixes from upstream CPython, and bugfixes to the garbage col
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The Optimizations in Erlang/OTP 27
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language