So I've been job hunting lately. Reading job postings, doing interviews, talking to engineering teams at like a dozen companies. And I noticed something compared to five years ago when I was last doing this: literally everyone is on Kubernetes now. Every single company I talked to.None of these places were doing microservices or anything close to high scale. So I asked why.Spoiler: they don't care much about the technical side of K8s. Read more ›
The new JVM Weekly is here... and Ragnarok seems to come, as we finally have Valhalla in the JDK. However, situation is a bit... nuanced. Read more ›
Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven growth strained infrastructure and triggered a series of reliability issues. Read more ›
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Read more ›
Why deployment status is not a UI label, but a consistency problem across databases, queues, workers, locks, reconcilers, Kubernetes, and user trust. Read more ›
SimpleRelay - Self-hosted SMTP relay with web dashboard, DNS validation, and per-sender access control (FastAPI/Postfix/Docker) - toinbox/simplerelay Read more ›
Luca Guadagnino’s nearly finished Sam Altman movie, “Artificial,” has been dropped by Amazon MGM Studios, Variety has confirmed. The film, starring Andrew Garfield as the controversial OpenAI CEO, will be shopped to other studios. The move notably comes after Amazon struck a massive partnership with the tech company in February to expand OpenAI’s use of […] Read more ›
Minimal container images often ship without curl, wget, or any HTTP client at all. Bash can still make an HTTP/1.1 request on its own through the /dev/tcp pseudo-device, without installing anything. Read more ›
Amazon Web Services is making a major push into Missouri with a multibillion-dollar investment in a new data center campus in Montgomery County, the company announced today\. The project is expected to create more than 400 full-time data center jobs, along with thousands of construction roles during the build-out\. Positions will include electricians, HVAC technicians, network specialists, operations managers, and other technical roles offering competitive pay and benefits\. The campus wi... Read more ›
I’ve been working since they came out, and finally, they’re surprisingly good now. I have a 2022 M2 Mac with 64 GB RAM and 1TB storage and I’ve used , as well as a number of other Qwen variants like across like raw llama.cpp with llama-cpp-python Ollama llamafiles and LM Studio Where are local models now? Early on, models were slow, hard to use, and just not that accurate for most programming tasks. The idea that local models were severely lagging behind was largely true until, for me, the re... Read more ›
Protect your software supply chain with Hextrap Firewall. Real-time package scanning, allow/deny lists, typosquatting detection, and malware blocking for Python, NPM, and Go. Read more ›
We've all heard people say that Qwen is near-Sonnet level, or near-Opus, but I have receipts and am here to be transparent with you. Read more ›
High-performance, memory-safe Rust implementation of Hugging Face Transformers. TrustformeRS brings the power of transformer models to the Rust ecosystem with zero-cost abstractions, fearless concu... Read more ›
Microsoft is adding AWS capacity for GitHub after AI-driven usage strained the developer platform, exposing Azure constraints and the infrastructure cost of agentic coding. Read more ›
Shadow any website for offline viewing, with the JavaScript stripped out - tamnd/kage Read more ›