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Building LLM agents - essentially looping stateless models through tools - looks simple. Until it isn't. Peel back the layers, and you hit real architectural puzzles:context engineering, agent loops, sub-agent choreography, execution constraints... read more Â
AI has revolutionized technical interviews, blurring the line between genuine skill and cheating with perfect solutions and polished answers. In response, companies are shifting back to in-person interviews for real-time cognitive transparency, authenticity constraints, realistic collaboration signa.. read more Â
Claude Code isn't just generating responses anymore - it's gearing up to run projects. The new direction turns it into a programmable, auditable agent runtime. Think custom hooks, restart logic, planning workflows, GitHub Actions, and subagent delegation tricks like the âMaster-Cloneâ pattern. At th.. read more Â
AI's reshaping jobs - but not evenly. Some industries will feel the squeeze faster than others. It all comes down to a race: productivity vs. demand. History's playbook? Think textiles, steel, autos. Automation boosted output. Jobs stuck around - as long as demand kept growing. Once markets topped o.. read more Â
A decade in, and this dev still rides with Docker Compose for production. Why? It just works. Clean deployments, solid uptime, same setup everywhere. No yak-shaving. It shines when you pair it with Git hooks for hands-off, zero-downtime deploys. No need to drag in Kubernetes unless youâre actually w.. read more Â
Perfetto now pulls in mixed trace data -perfsamples, scheduler events, app-level instrumentation - and lines it all up on a single timeline. One view, no silos. It readstrace-cmdâs text format now, with smoother flame graphs, sharper bottom-up views, and SQL-powered filtering baked right into the UI.. read more Â
Broadcom underwent significant changes post-VMware acquisition, with emphasis on subscription-based pricing and portfolio simplification. Prashant Shenoy claims VCF lowered prices by 50%, challenging industry norms about AI workloads on bare metal versus virtualized environments. Integration pointed.. read more Â
Kubernetes releases Gateway API 1.4.0, enhancing service networking with new features like secure TLS connections and improved configuration options.
Grafana Mimir 3.0 debuts with a new query engine and architecture, boosting performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
Understand how to enable, export, and extend OpenTelemetry metrics in your Quarkus application with practical examples.
