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My Honest Advice for Aspiring Machine Learning Engineers

Becoming a machine learning engineer requires dedicatingat least 10 hours per weekto studying outside of everyday responsibilities. This can take a minimum of two years, even with an ideal background, due to the complexity of the required skills. Understanding core algorithms and mastering the funda..

My Honest Advice for Aspiring Machine Learning Engineers
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Building tiny AI tools for developer productivity

Tiny AI scripts won't make you the next tech billionaire, but they're unbeatable for rescuing hours from the drudgery of repetitive tasks. Whether it's wrangling those dreadedGitHub rollupsor automating the minutiae, these little miracles grant engineers the luxury to actually think...

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Critical Linux “sudo” flaw allows any user to take over the system

Millions of Linux systems are vulnerable to a sudo flaw allowing unauthorized users to run commands as root. The bug affects Ubuntu and Fedora servers, escalates privileges to root, and requires installation of the latest sudo packages for mitigation. The flaw lies in the seldom-used sudo chroot fea..

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Linux 6.16 Performance Regression Tracked Down In New Futex Code

Linux 6.16takes a36% performance nosediveon AMD EPYC 9005 all thanks toFUTEXPRIVATEHASH. The quick fix? Yank it. Engineers scramble for a smarter solution...

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Grafana Tempo 2.8 release: memory improvements, new TraceQL features, and more

Grafana Tempo 2.8lands with a bang. Say hello toTraceQL query hints—they bump up results you care about and streamline span searches with parent span IDs. Meanwhile,compactor poolingrevamps slashes memory usage. Kiss those OOM errors goodbye. Important heads-up:serverless features are historyand the..

Grafana Tempo 2.8 release: memory improvements, new TraceQL features, and more
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise completes $14B acquisition of Juniper after settlement of DOJ suit

Hewlett Packard Enterprise closed its acquisition of Juniper Networks following the settlement of a lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice. This acquisition will allow HPE to expand its networking business and compete in the AI networking market. HPE officials stated that the merger positions the..

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Atlassian moved 4 million Postgres databases to AWS Aurora

Atlassianpulled off a major coup, relocating 4 million Jira Postgres databases toAWS Aurora. They slashed expenses by taming CPU beasts and carved out a rock-solid 99.99% uptime. A delightful efficiency cocktail. SamsungandTSMCare brooming through some project cobwebs. Samsung's rethinking its Texas..

Atlassian moved 4 million Postgres databases to AWS Aurora
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GitOps Introduction with Argo CD

GitOpsturns deployment upside down. A cunningpull-basedmethod. Tools likeArgo CDautomate app updates by keeping a hawk's eye on Git repos. Toss those convoluted CD pipelines into the trash. If updates stumble—justGit committo roll back. Safe teamwork—no need to touch the cluster...

GitOps Introduction with Argo CD
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Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin

UsingGoandRustwith CGI-style requests taps into multi-core CPU might, poking fun at long-held CGI inefficiency myths...

Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin
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Insights from paper — Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data

Bigtableisn't just another footnote in Google's lineup. It dominates the data landscape, wrangling petabytes like a charm. Built for atomic row operations and sly tablet splits. Plus, it’s backed by Chubby’s fault-tolerance magic. Picture it as a NoSQL and relational database crossbreed with the fle..

Insights from paper — Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data