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Taking a Look at Database Disk, Memory, and Concurrency Management

Databasesdance between block and file-level access. They cleverly use memory like a magician with a hidden pocket, smoothing over sluggish disk interactions. Logs? They’re the secret sauce for slick crash recovery.Concurrency controlin the mad circus of transactions? Locks. They're the backstage cre.. read more  

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JFrog’s Journey with AWS Graviton

JFrog’s leap toAWS Gravitonunleashed some wizardry: slashing compute costs by20%, slicing CPU usage by another20%, and shaving network latency by10%. But here’s the kicker—carbon footprint plummeted by60%. That’s efficiency with an eco-twist. They juggled feature flags and multi-architecture support.. read more  

JFrog’s Journey with AWS Graviton
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37signals on-prem migration to save millions, abandon AWS

37signalsplans to chop its cloud bill from a hefty$3.2Mto under$1Ma year by dumping AWS for its own gear, with some help from swift Dell and Pure Storage systems. Oh, andAWStossed in a $250K fee waiver to nudge that transition along... read more  

37signals on-prem migration to save millions, abandon AWS
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@faun shared a link, 6 months, 1 week ago

Speeding up Terraform caching with OverlayFS

Terraform's plugin cache chokes when confronted withconcurrent runs. Picture a traffic jam at rush hour—it ain't pretty. EnterOverlayFS, the urban planner for your code. It tricks each simultaneous Terraform init into believing it's hogging the same plugin cache. Then, with finesse, it syncs everyth.. read more  

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@faun shared a link, 6 months, 1 week ago

Ran out of infrastructure titles

Taloskicked k3s to the curb, quenching that nagging itch for declarative order that Nix left behind. For traffic control,Contourswooped in, bringing sanity to my DNS maze and giving Nginx the boot.VictoriaMetricsoutpaced Prometheus, delivering speed and thrift. It even does remote monitoring like a .. read more  

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@faun shared a link, 6 months, 1 week ago

Ansible: pure (only in its) pragmatism

Ansibleslashes through the tangled mess of system admin tasks on Windows and Linux without needing agents, keeping things tidy and consistent. Just don't count on it to break any speed records. ItsYAML-based DSLand an extensive library of plugins give it some flair, but when it comes to full-scale i.. read more  

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@faun shared a link, 6 months, 1 week ago

What If We Could Rebuild Kafka From Scratch?

Toss those partitions. Instead, pivot to key-centric streams—perfect for fine-tuned consumer management. Say goodbye to head-of-line blocking. Lean into topic hierarchies for slick, pattern-based subscriptions. Want to avoid outdated headaches? Tackle that with concurrency control. Broker-side schem.. read more  

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Claude’s AI research mode now runs for up to 45 minutes before delivering reports

Anthropic's Claude just supercharged its Research feature, cranking out reports from hundreds of sources in a blazing 45 minutes.But stay sharp—AI has a knack for inventing phantom sources... read more  

Claude’s AI research mode now runs for up to 45 minutes before delivering reports
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@faun shared a link, 6 months, 1 week ago

Stop overbuilding evals

Over-engineering smothers momentum. Get it to prod yesterday. Imperfection? Own it. Tweak with real folks in the wild. Feature flags and sanity checks? Priceless. Theory's just noise until reality weighs in... read more  

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AI predicted the next pope. Did it get it right?

A.I. algorithm incorrectly predicted Italian Cardinal Parolin as next pope; new model analyzes voting trends and predicts U.S. Cardinal Prevost as a compromise candidate. Model may improve with inclusion of more political and geographical data, but current analysis offers insights into potential pap.. read more Â