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Monday 2025-01-06 Assorted Links
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Published: 2025-01-06
Monday 2025-01-06 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Monday, January 6:

  1. Managing large-scale Redis clusters on Kubernetes with an operator – Kuaishou’s approach
  2. Supercharge Your RAG App With Agentic Hybrid Search

    By using structured metadata and letting an LLM choose the best retrieval method for each query, you can turn your RAG app into a better assistant.

  3. Cloud Efficiency at Netflix
  4. Part 1: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix
  5. How we think about Threads’ iOS performance: Key metrics: %FIRE (Frustrating image-render experience), TTNC (Time-to-network content), cPSR (Creation-publish success rate)
Friday 2025-01-03 Assorted Links
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Published: 2025-01-03
Friday 2025-01-03 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Friday, January 3:

  1. Apache Pinot Brings Real Time Analysis to Columnar Data

    Pinot was born to solve the problem of “running analytical queries for hundreds of millions of users at scale, in a low-cost manner,” explained Chinmay Soman, head of product for StarTree, which offers a fully managed cloud native version of Pinot.

    Pinot brings “simplification in the data stack,” Soman said in an interview with TNS. “The problem is not new. It’s been solved by many legacy technologies. What Pinot brings is the simplification and the scale for these problems.”

  2. GenAI is Quickly Reinventing IT Operations, Leaving Many Behind

    GenAI can significantly transform IT Operations Management by proactively providing context-rich insights, accurate predictions, and actionable recommendations for managing the IT landscape.

  3. How to Create and Use an AI Git Agent
  4. Platform Engineering needs Observability: here’s why

    Observability offers real-time insights into system behavior, allowing teams to proactively identify and address issues before they affect users. By adopting observability, platform engineering teams can improve system resilience, sustain uninterrupted user experiences during peak events, and uphold operational stability.

  5. Announcing systemd v257
Thursday 2025-01-02 Assorted Links
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Published: 2025-01-02
Thursday 2025-01-02 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Thursday, January 2:

  1. Design Token-Based UI Architecture

    Design tokens are design decisions as data and serve as a single source of truth for design and engineering. Utilizing deployment pipelines, they enable automated code generation across platforms, allowing for faster updates and improved consistency in design.

  2. Retrofitting spatial safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++

    [W]e’re working towards bringing spatial memory safety into as many of our C++ codebases as possible, including Chrome and the monolithic codebase powering our services.

    Building on the successful deployment of hardened libc++ in Chrome in 2022, we’ve now made it default across our server-side production systems.

  3. Reconsidering Kubernetes deployments: when operators are overkill

    TL:DR: Kubernetes Operators are powerful but can be overkill for simple deployments. Explore alternatives like Helm, ArgoCD, and Devtron to streamline your Kubernetes deployments without sacrificing efficiency.

  4. Securely Deploy and Run Multiple Tenants on Kubernetes

    Three fundamental options:

    1. Namespace-Based Isolation With Network Policies, RBAC and Security Controls
    2. Cluster-Level Isolation
    3. Virtual Clusters
  5. AI-Driven Code Review: Enhancing Developer Productivity and Code Quality

    AI-driven code review tools are changing traditional development and helping teams build better software.

Tuesday 2024-12-10 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-12-10
Tuesday 2024-12-10 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Tuesday, December 10:

  1. Benchmark LLM Application Performance with LangChain
  2. Forget All-Cloud or All-On-Prem: Embrace Hybrid for Agility and Cost Savings

    The core idea behind hybrid cloud is straightforward: use cloud environments where rapid scaling and frequent changes are essential and rely on on-premises systems for stable, predictable workloads.

  3. Bazel 8.0 Released
  4. You Can Now Try Out Sora, OpenAI’s AI Video Generator
  5. Using Local AI models with .NET Aspire
Tuesday 2024-12-03 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-12-03
Tuesday 2024-12-03 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Tuesday, December 3:

  1. Agent Framework

    Agent Framework is a Python framework for building capable, context-aware AI agents. It provides a flexible foundation for creating AI agents with distinct personas, managed instructions, conversational memory, and strategic planning capabilities.

  2. eBPF Security Threat Model
  3. Experts Share Best Practices for Building Terraform Modules
  4. API Mocking Is Essential to Effective Change Management
  5. OpenTelemetry Is expanding into CI/CD observability

    We’ve been talking about the need for a common “language” for reporting and observing CI/CD pipelines for years, and finally, we see the first “words” of this language entering the “dictionary” of observability – the OpenTelemetry open specification. With the recent release of OpenTelemetry’s Semantic Conventions, v1.27.0, you can find designated attributes for reporting CI/CD pipelines.

Monday 2024-12-02 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-12-02
Monday 2024-12-02 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Monday, December 2:

  1. Cloud Neutral Postgres Databases with Kubernetes and CloudNativePG
  2. Observe Simplifies K8s Troubleshooting With Kubernetes Explorer
  3. Platform Engineering: A Workshop to Help Map Your Strategy
  4. Revisiting the DOS memory models
  5. Linux Kernel Performance Bottlenecks Spotted By Mold Developer

    The key takeaways of the performance bottlenecks within the Linux kernel that were noticed by Rui Ueyama include:

    • exit(2) takes a few hundred milliseconds for a large process
    • Writing to a fresh file is slower than writing to an existing file
    • Lack of a safe system-wide semaphore