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Friday 2024-04-05 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-04-05
Friday 2024-04-05 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Friday, April 5:

  1. Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90% – a case study of moving from distributed microservices back to a monolith application
  2. Shaping live sports publishing traffic through a distributed scheduling system
  3. Debugging a FUSE deadlock in the Linux kernel
  4. Enum Class Bitmasks
  5. Bazel in CI (Part 1): Commit Under Test
  6. Bazel in CI (Part 2): Worker Setup
  7. Bazel Caching Explained (pt. 3): Repository Cache
  8. Fast builds, secure builds. Choose two. – How Stripe uses Bazel for build and test pipelines.
  9. Bazel roadmap
  10. Introducing rules_oci – A replacement for rules_docker which builds container images.
Thursday 2024-04-04 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-04-04
Thursday 2024-04-04 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Thursday, April 4:

  1. Why SQLite is so great for the edge
  2. OpenTelemetry: The Star of KubeCon 2023
  3. Awesome Load Management
  4. Warden: Real Time Anomaly Detection at Pinterest
  5. Packaging Open Policy Agent policies with Nix
  6. OpenSearch vs Solr: Which One Is Better to Use?
  7. 7 Core Elements of an Internal Developer Platform
  8. Native Frame Rate Playback – Netflix Technology Blog
  9. Applying GitOps principles to your operations
  10. Highlights from Git 2.41
Wednesday 2024-04-03 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-04-03
Wednesday 2024-04-03 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Wednesday, April 3:

  1. Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software
  2. DevOps uses a capability model, not a maturity model
  3. Read Every Single Error
  4. Ditch the Template: Incident Write-ups They Want to Read
  5. Load Balancing
  6. 10+ Best Tools & Systems for Monitoring Ubuntu Server Performance (2023 Comparison)
  7. How We Improved Our Monitoring Stack With Only a Few Small Changes
  8. What Every Developer Should Know About AWS Vault
  9. Move over, Dockerfiles! The new way to craft containers
  10. Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
Tuesday 2024-04-02 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-04-02
Tuesday 2024-04-02 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Tuesday, April 2:

  1. How we host Ars Technica in the cloud, part two: The software
  2. Hosting Ars, part three: CI/CD, or how I learned to stop worrying and love DevOps
  3. Scaling the Instagram Explore recommendations system
  4. How Meta is improving password security and preserving privacy
  5. Fixit 2: Meta’s next-generation auto-fixing linter
  6. Four tips to keep your GitHub Actions workflows secure
  7. How we build containerized services at GitHub using GitHub
  8. Scaling merge-ort across GitHub
  9. Metrics for issues, pull requests, and discussions
  10. A developer’s guide to prompt engineering and LLMs
Monday 2024-04-01 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-04-01
Monday 2024-04-01 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Monday, April 1:

  1. Thousands of servers hacked in ongoing attack targeting Ray AI framework: Researchers say it’s the first known in-the-wild attack targeting AI workloads.
  2. An Alerting strategy for the cloud
  3. Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/s: How I Learned To Love Tail Calls in C
  4. Advances in document understanding
  5. From U2F to passkeys
  6. Protecting Secrets with Docker
  7. Improve Docker Compose Modularity with include
  8. Container Security and Why It Matters
  9. vcpkg integration with the GitHub dependency graph
  10. Introducing Immortal Objects for Python
Friday 2024-03-29 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-03-29
Friday 2024-03-29 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Friday, March 29:

  1. Use ‘Jan’ to Chat With AI Without the Privacy Concerns
  2. Uncovering the Seams in Mainframes for Incremental Modernisation: A Case Study of Legacy Displacement
  3. Bringing HDR photo support to Instagram and Threads
  4. Is Your Container Image Really Distroless?
  5. containerd vs. Docker: Understanding Their Relationship and How They Work Together
  6. Some choices for encrypting data so that it can be decrypted only by the same user or computer
  7. How to Start a ‘Backdoor’ Roth IRA (and When You Should)
  8. Microsoft opens a crack in console gaming’s decades-old walled garden
  9. Intel, Microsoft discuss plans to run Copilot locally on PCs instead of in the cloud
  10. Quantum computing progress: Higher temps, better error correction
Thursday 2024-03-28 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-03-28
Thursday 2024-03-28 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Thursday, March 28:

  1. The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2024
  2. How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale
  3. Global products, global monitoring: Terraform Strategies for Seamless Grafana Dashboards Across Regions – this feels like using Terraform as the core of a GitOps strategy, which doesn’t sound like too bad of an idea to me
  4. Licensing AI Engineers
  5. TDD: You’re Probably Doing It Just Fine
  6. Governments Setting Limits on AI: Many countries and regions are considering, or trying to implement, regulations on the training and use of artificial intelligence
  7. Combining Machine Learning and Lifetime-Based Resource Management for Memory Allocation and Beyond
  8. How to use GitHub Copilot in your IDE: Tips, tricks, and best practices
  9. Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
  10. Use the ‘Hawthorne Effect’ to Increase Your Productivity
Wednesday 2024-03-27 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-03-27
Wednesday 2024-03-27 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Wednesday, March 27:

  1. SDL Storage API Merged For SDL 3.0
  2. The Return of the Frame Pointers
  3. Sequential A/B Testing Keeps the World Streaming Netflix Part 2: Counting Processes
  4. Logarithm: A logging engine for AI training workflows and services
  5. AI and the Evolution of Social Media
  6. GoFetch: Breaking Constant-Time Cryptographic Implementations Using Data Memory-Dependent Prefetchers
  7. Found means fixed: Introducing code scanning autofix, powered by GitHub Copilot and CodeQL
  8. UN General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on artificial intelligence – sadly, this is a nonbinding agreement and thus effectively toothless
  9. Linux Crisis Tools – install these Linux tools on your production servers before a crisis hits
  10. The Danger of Unreliable Platforms (with Jade Rubick)
Tuesday 2024-03-26 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-03-26
Tuesday 2024-03-26 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Tuesday, March 26:

  1. Building Meta’s GenAI Infrastructure
  2. Inside the gamedays: how we tested Signals for reliability
  3. Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023
  4. Get started with .NET 8 and AI using new quickstart tutorials
  5. Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
  6. Generate Local .NET Secrets from Azure Deployments
  7. Preventing production code depending on experiments – Bazel specific
  8. SMB for Linux with SMB3 POSIX extensions (FOSDEM 2024)
  9. FUSE Passthrough Mode Merged For Linux 6.9
  10. CODEOWNERS and Bazel
Monday 2024-03-25 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-03-25
Monday 2024-03-25 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Monday, March 25:

  1. Miles Davis and the Recording of a Jazz Masterpiece
  2. Publishing Bazel rules that depend on tools: take 2
  3. Revolutionize Your CI/CD Pipeline: Integrating Testcontainers and Bazel
  4. How the Great Green Wall is Holding Back the Sahara Desert
  5. BuildKit in depth: Docker’s build engine explained
  6. Scaled Agile DevOps Maturity Framework
  7. eBPF Documentary
  8. eBPF Observability Tools Are Not Security Tools
  9. LLVM’s ‘RFC: C++ Buffer Hardening’ at Google
  10. C++ safety, in context