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@rafidbottler gave 🐾 to Artificial Intelligence vs Machine Learning: What's the Difference? , 2 days, 6 hours ago.

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@anjali5 shared a link, 3 days, 2 hours ago

How to Fix Developer Productivity at 50+ Engineers

You ship a feature. It works. A week later, someone asks why it's not in staging yet, and you realize it's behind an infrastructure request that's still in review. The ticket isn't urgent enough to escalate. It's also not small enough to ignore. So it waits.

That's what a developer productivity problem feels like at 50 engineers.

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@laura_garcia shared a post, 3 days, 2 hours ago

Software Developer, RELIANOID

AI Reliability Engineering: The New Era of SRE

🤖 As AI becomes part of critical business operations, reliability is no longer just an infrastructure concern. From latency and model drift to observability and trust, AI workloads introduce a new set of challenges for modern SRE teams. In our latest article, we look at how reliability engineering i..

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@pluto_native started using tool Terraform , 5 days, 20 hours ago.

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@pluto_native started using tool Kubernetes , 5 days, 20 hours ago.

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@pluto_native started using tool Google Cloud Platform , 5 days, 20 hours ago.

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@pluto_native started using tool Amazon Web Services , 5 days, 20 hours ago.

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@eon01 shared a link, 6 days, 1 hour ago

Founder, FAUN.dev

A curated list of free AI models, APIs, and tools you can use without paying a cent.

Running AI shouldn't require a credit card. This list curates genuinely free models — open-weight models you can self-host, free API tiers from major providers, and tools to run everything locally.

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@eon01 added a new tool Unsloth , 6 days, 6 hours ago.

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@eon01 published a course, 6 days, 6 hours ago

Founder, FAUN.dev

Local AI Engineering with Ollama

#LangCha... #Unsloth #Fine-tu... #Ollama #MCP

Run, understand, customize, fine-tune, and build agentic apps on your own hardware

Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for Linux distributions. A snap is a self-contained package that bundles an application together with its dependencies, making it runnable across any distribution that supports the snapd daemon. Snaps run under strict confinement using a combination of AppArmor, seccomp, and cgroups, with explicit interfaces controlling access to system resources, hardware, and user data.

Updates are delivered automatically and atomically through the Snap Store (snapcraft.io), with built-in rollback support if an update fails.

Snap supports multiple release channels (stable, candidate, beta, edge) and tracks for parallel version streams, making it suitable for both end-user applications and server software.

While Snap originated as Canonical's solution for Ubuntu, it works across most major distributions including Fedora, Arch, Debian, and openSUSE. It is the foundation for several Canonical initiatives including Ubuntu Core, IoT deployments, and inference snaps for local AI model distribution.