- Five Apache projects you probably didn’t know about
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The Apache Foundation hosts the projects above, but they have another thing in common: they were all incepted in China. Have a look at the Apache project list. You’ll probably be amazed at the sheer number; it’s close to 300!
In recent years, the number of projects incepted at the Apache Foundation has increased drastically. Look again at the list; I’m sure you only know a few of them - lots come from China. The trend is only growing; it’s a great move to integrate China with the OpenSource world!
- LLM Confabulation (Hallucination) Leaderboard for RAG
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Hallucinations are one of my biggest issues against LLMs. Ranking the ones the less susceptible to hallucinate is a great asset!
- 9 Levels of Asynchronous Programming in Python
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I need to implement these on my metrics fetching job.
- Reflections on Palantir
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I was approached by Palantir once, but it would have meant relocation to London, which I was not ready for. Later, I read about the company and it confirmed that I chose wisely.
I like to read another perspective from somebody who actually worked there.
- Challenges and Lessons Porting Code from C to Rust
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I believe porting legacy C code to Rust is going to be trending in the near future. While 50kLoc is not huge, it constitutes a good sample to learn lessons applicable to larger codebases.
- Poor man’s signals
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Definitely not your grandpa’s JavaScript.
- Five ways to speed up your Maven builds
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After Gradle realized that Maven is here to stay, they finally stopped bashing it and end up giving some useful advices.
- STOP using Docker Desktop: Faster Alternative Nobody Uses
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TIL: OrbStack
OrbStack is the fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux. Develop at lightspeed with our Docker Desktop alternative.
- How do open source solutions for logs work: Elasticsearch, Loki and VictoriaLogs
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The author is the creator of VictoriaMetrics, yet, he evaluates the contenders in a pretty objective way.
- LocalStorage vs. IndexedDB vs. Cookies vs. OPFS vs. WASM-SQLite
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An exhaustive snapshot comparison of all ways available for browsers to store data.
- How to Detect the Programming Language of an API
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Beside the regular headers, you can also check
POSTsize limits and how the API handles duplicate query parameters. - What Is This OpenTelemetry Thing?
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Great walkthrough of OpenTelemetry!