Programming

"reportedly Apple just got absolutely everything they asked for and WebGPU really looks a lot like Metal. But Metal was always reportedly the nicest of the three modern graphics APIs to use, so that's… good?"
https://cohost.org/mcc/post/1406157-i-want-to-talk-about-webgpu

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Programming

Prime Video Switched from Serverless to EC2 and ECS to Save Costs
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/05/prime-ec2-ecs-saves-costs/

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InfoQ

Prime Video Switched from Serverless to EC2 and ECS to Save Costs

Prime Video, Amazon’s video streaming service, has explained how it re-architected the audio/video quality inspection solution to reduce operational costs and address scalability problems. It moved the workload to EC2 and ECS compute services, and achieved…

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Programming

Shopify is cutting 20% of staff and selling the logistics arm of its business
https://www.businessinsider.com/shopify-lays-off-20-percent-staff-sells-flexport-logistics-business-2023-5

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Business Insider

Shopify is cutting 20% of staff and selling the logistics arm of its business

Shopify announced Thursday that it would cut 20% of its staff and sell its logistics unit to the supply-chain technology company Flexport.

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Programming

Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”
https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-moat/

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Simon Willison’s Weblog

Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”

SemiAnalysis published something of a bombshell leaked document this morning: Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”. The source of the document is vague: The text below is …

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Programming

Investigating Linux Phantom Disk Reads
https://questdb.io/blog/investigating-linux-phantom-disk-reads/

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questdb.io

Investigating Linux Phantom Disk Reads

An investigation of weird hardware utilization highlighting some interesting Linux kernel behaviors.

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Programming

New C features in GCC 13
https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/05/04/new-c-features-gcc-13

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Red Hat Developer

New C features in GCC 13 | Red Hat Developer

The latest major version of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), 13.1, was released in April 2023. Like every major GCC release, this version will bring many

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Programming

Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices
https://world.hey.com/dhh/even-amazon-can-t-make-sense-of-serverless-or-microservices-59625580

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Hey

Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices

The Prime Video team at Amazon has published a rather remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture and replace it with a monolith instead. This move saved them a staggering 90%(!!) on operating costs, and simplified…

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Programming

S3 domain claimed on Bluesky by someone who doesn't own the domain
https://chaos.social/@jonty/110307532009155432

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chaos.social

Jonty Wareing (@jonty@chaos.social)

Attached: 1 image

It turns out you can simply serve a file from a domain to use it as your bsky handle.

So this guy is now S3. All of S3.

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Programming

Thoughts on "Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%"
https://www.infrastructureposts.com/p/e7-thoughts-on-scaling-up-the-prime

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Infrastructureposts

E7: Thoughts on "Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%"

I came across this article the other day when it was all over reddit.

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Programming

Freenet 2023: A drop-in decentralized replacement for the world wide web
https://freenet.org/

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r/programming on Reddit: Freenet 2023: A drop-in decentralized replacement for the world wide web

Posted by u/sanity - 181 votes and 173 comments

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Programming

ChatGPT Data Breach BreakDown - Why it Should be a Concern for Everyone!
https://youtu.be/YVkgluFKNSs

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YouTube

ChatGPT Data Breach Break Down

OpenAi have confirmed they have had a data breach involving a vulnerability inside a open-source dependency Redis. This allowed threat actors to see history from other active users. But this leads to the bigger question, how can we secure ChatGPT.

In this…

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Programming

Unfork: The Inverse of Fork
https://github.com/whitequark/unfork

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GitHub

GitHub - whitequark/unfork: unfork(2) is the inverse of fork(2). sort of.

unfork(2) is the inverse of fork(2). sort of. Contribute to whitequark/unfork development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Programming

An AWS CDK project to set up an almost free on-demand Minecraft (or other game) server for a Discord community in a few minutes. I've just made it open-source and hope people can find it useful!
https://github.com/VeriorPies/MineCloud/

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GitHub

GitHub - VeriorPies/MineCloud: An AWS CDK project to set up a low-cost on-demand multiplayer server (Minecraft, Terraria, and more...)…

An AWS CDK project to set up a low-cost on-demand multiplayer server (Minecraft, Terraria, and more...) for a Discord community in just a few minutes - VeriorPies/MineCloud

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Programming

You don't need Scrum. You just need to do Kanban right.
https://lucasfcosta.com/2022/10/02/scrum-versus-kanban.html

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Lucas F. Costa

You don't need Scrum. You just need to do Kanban right.

Why did you choose Scrum instead of Kanban? If you can’t answer that question, you didn’t choose Scrum. Someone else chose it for you.

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Programming

Spacetraders is an online multiplayer game based entirely on APIs. You have to build your own management and UI on your own with any programming language.
https://spacetraders.io/

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Programming

The 2023 Developer Survey is now live!
https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/05/08/the-2023-developer-survey-is-now-live/

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Stack Overflow Blog

The 2023 Developer Survey is now live!

We want to know about all the technology that makes you swoon and scoff.

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Programming

Building a tiny compiler from scratch is fun
https://build-your-own.org/blog/20230507_byoc_new/?v=20230507

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build-your-own.org

Building a tiny compiler from scratch is fun | Blog | build-your-own.org

Building a tiny compiler from
scratch is fun.