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Myth Or Reality: Will AI Replace Computer Programmers?

Generative AI tools likeGPT-4oandClaude Sonnetnow handle the grunt work—fixing bugs, cranking out code, writing docs—with scary accuracy. Amazon and Anthropic are already hinting at hiring fewer engineers. But the jobs aren’t vanishing; they’re mutating...

Myth Or Reality: Will AI Replace Computer Programmers?
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Building an AI-Powered E-commerce Chat Assistant with MongoDB

freeCodeCamp dropped a new course that walks devs through building an AI-powered shopping agent from scratch. It ties togetherLangGraphfor orchestration,Geminifor reasoning, andMongoDB Atlasas the vector memory layer. The build covers aNode.js backend, aReact frontend, and wires inmulti-step agent ..

Building an AI-Powered E-commerce Chat Assistant with MongoDB
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Evolving our real-time timeseries storage again: Built in Rust for performance at scale

Datadog just dropped its 6th-gen real-time timeseries engine:RTDB. It's built inRust, sharded per core, and backed by LSM trees that don’t blink under pressure. The secret sauce? A custom storage engine calledMonocle—optimized for high-cardinality chaos and bursty workloads. It’s pulling60x faster ..

Evolving our real-time timeseries storage again: Built in Rust for performance at scale
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Worktrees: Git's best kept secret (and why you should use them)

Git worktrees have been around since 2015, but few devs use them like they could. They let you work on multiple branches at once—each in its own directory—without the usual stash-switch-stash-repeat dance. The real power move? Pair them with abare repo. That gives you a clean, central base where ea..

Worktrees: Git's best kept secret (and why you should use them)
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Can LLMs replace on call SREs today?

ClickHouse ran five LLMs through an autonomous root cause gauntlet using OpenTelemetry data. None nailed it solo. OpenAI’s o3 and Claude Sonnet 4 came closest. GPT-4.1 was the cheapest brain on the block. Things got weird under the hood. Token usage spiked unpredictably. Queries slammed observabili..

Can LLMs replace on call SREs today?
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Dynamo, DynamoDB, and Aurora DSQL

Marc Brooker breaks down the jump fromAmazon DynamotoDynamoDBandAurora DSQL, tracing how the guts of cloud databases have changed. It’s a story about dropping old trade-offs and picking up stronger guarantees. DynamoDB ditches the old hash-ring replication for multi-AZ replica sets backed by Paxos...

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Migrating Airbnb’s JVM Monorepo to Bazel

Airbnb yanked tens of millions of lines of Java, Kotlin, and Scala out of Gradle and dropped them intoBazel. Why? Faster builds, reproducible results, and smoother dev workflows. They didn’t just swap tools—they rewired the whole thing. A customautomated build file generatornow slices up targets fi..

Migrating Airbnb’s JVM Monorepo to Bazel
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Hunting Living Secrets: Secret Validity Checks Arrive in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps

GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps just got sharper: it now checks if leaked secrets are actuallyvalid. Secrets are flagged asActiveorUnknownby pinging providers in real time. No setup needed. It auto-kicks in for supported secret types. Why care?Because not every secret leak is an emergenc..

Hunting Living Secrets: Secret Validity Checks Arrive in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
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Using DuckDB in AWS Lambda

DuckDB is an open-source in-process SQL OLAP database management system optimized for analytical queries. It can efficiently handle large datasets in a memory-efficient manner, making it suitable for serverless architectures. A DuckDB Lambda layer can be used to run performant queries on remote data..

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Best Linux distro for developers of 2025

TechRadar rounds up the best Linux distros for devs.Manjarodelivers Arch power without the pain.DebianandUbuntu LTShold steady for those who put uptime over edge.Fedorakeeps the new stuff flowing. Solusrolls with a tight curation hand—smooth updates, no chaos.Mocaccinoaims at Gentoo lovers who want..

Best Linux distro for developers of 2025