The 14 pains of building your own billing system
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Arnon Shimoni
🦑 The 14 pains of building your own billing system - Arnon Shimoni
Trying to cobble together your own billing system is like wrestling an octopus that's armed with tax codes and invoices instead of tentacles. It's a beast of complexity that can tangle up everything from customer support to compliance. I have 14 points on…
AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/?td=rt-3a
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The Register
AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware
Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that
"The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers. Microsoft & MicrosoftTeams posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is 'high priority'."
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FFmpeg (@FFmpeg) on X
After politely requesting a support contract from Microsoft for long term maintenance, they offered a one-time payment of a few thousand dollars instead.
This is unacceptable.
We didn't make it up, this is what @microsoft @microsoftteams actually did:…
This is unacceptable.
We didn't make it up, this is what @microsoft @microsoftteams actually did:…
But what is a GPT?
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Transformers, the tech behind LLMs | Deep Learning Chapter 5
Breaking down how Large Language Models work, visualizing how data flows through.
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Build a GPT from scratch…
Amazon Abandons Grocery Stores Where You Just Walk Out With Stuff After It Turns Out Its "AI" Was Powered by 1,000 Human Contractors
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Yahoo News
Amazon Abandons Grocery Stores Where You Just Walk Out With Stuff After It Turns Out Its "AI" Was Powered by 1,000 Human Contractors
Just Walked Away Amazon is giving up with its unusual "Just Walk Out" technology, The Information reports, which allowed customers to simply put their shopping into their bags and leave the store without having to get in line at the checkout. The tech, which…
How Netflix Really Uses Java
https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/evolution-of-java-usage-at-netflix
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Bytebytego
Evolution of Java Usage at Netflix
Stop releasing bugs with fully automated end-to-end test coverage (Sponsored) Bugs sneak out when less than 80% of user flows are tested before shipping. But how do you get that kind of coverage? You either spend years scaling in-house QA — or you get there…
[PDF] Microsoft's research paper on "What Makes a Great Software Engineer"
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Kubernetes Debugging: How to Handle Multiple kubectl port-forward from your System Tray
https://kftray.hashnode.dev/kubernetes-debugging-handling-multiple-kubectl-port-forward-from-tray
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Kubernetes Debugging: How to Handle Multiple kubectl port-forward from your System Tray
As a developer working with Kubernetes, I often find myself with multiple port-forward open sessions to debug pods across namespaces. Keeping track of all those terminals can get chaotic quickly. To help streamline my debugging workflow, I created an...
How we've saved 98% in cloud costs by writing our own database
https://hivekit.io/blog/how-weve-saved-98-percent-in-cloud-costs-by-writing-our-own-database/
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Reddit
From the programming community on Reddit: How we've saved 98% in cloud costs by writing our own database
Posted by wolframhempel - 205 votes and 69 comments
How Stack Overflow replaced Experts Exchange
https://graphite.dev/blog/stack-overflow-vs-experts-exchange
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Graphite.dev
How Stack Overflow replaced Experts Exchange
An in-depth history of how Stack Overflow replaced Experts Exchange as the leading online technical wiki.
Modern Git Commands and Features You Should Be Using
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Modern Git Commands and Features You Should Be Using
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All of us - software engineers - use <code class="inline">git</code> every day, however most people only ever touch the most basic of commands, such as...
All of us - software engineers - use <code class="inline">git</code> every day, however most people only ever touch the most basic of commands, such as...
IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1 Is Out!
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2024/04/intellij-idea-2024-1/
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The JetBrains Blog
IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1 Is Out! | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog
IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1 has been released with dozens of improvements to various parts of the IDE listed in this blog post.
How I improved our CI build time from 24mins to 8mins and reduced costs by 50%
https://owaiskhan.me/post/improve-ci-build-time-and-reduce-cost
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How I improved our CI build time from 24mins to 8mins and reduced costs by 50% | Owais
If you like fast CI builds, hate having to wait for an eternity for CI to complete a build after you open a PR, and love reducing infra costs, read on.
xz backdoor and autotools insanity
https://felipec.wordpress.com/2024/04/04/xz-backdoor-and-autotools-insanity/
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Felipe Contreras
xz backdoor and autotools insanity
I argue autotools’ convoluted nature is what enabled the xz backdoor in the first place. The truth is nobody needs to use autotools, and I show why.
How npm install scripts can be weaponized: A real-world example of a harmful npm package
https://stacklok.com/blog/how-npm-install-scripts-can-be-weaponized-a-real-life-example-of-a-harmful-npm-package
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