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Advanced PostgreSQL Indexing: Multi-Key Queries and Performance Optimization

Advanced PostgreSQL tuning gets real results: composite indexes and CTEs can cut query latency hard when slicing huge datasets. AddLATERALjoins and indexed subqueries into the mix, and you’ve got a top-N query pattern that holds up—even when hammering long ID lists...

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walrus: ingesting data at memory speeds

Walrusis a lock-free, single-nodeWrite Ahead Log in Rustthat rips through a million ops/sec and moves 1 GB/s of write bandwidth - on bare-metal, nothing fancy. It leans on mmap-backed sparse files, atomic counters, and zero-copy reads to get there. Each topic gets its own line of 10MB memory-mapped ..

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Inside Husky’s query engine: Real-time access to 100 trillion events

SteamPipe just gutted its real-time storage engine and rebuilt it inRust. Expect faster performance and better scaling. Now runs oncolumnar storage, ships withvectorized queries, and rolls anobject store-backed WAL. Serious firepower for time series data. System shift:Another sign that high-throughp..

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How I Block All 26 Million Of Your Curl Requests

A developer built a razor-sharp TLS fingerprinting and blocking tool - all in kernel space - witheBPFandXDP. It hooks into incoming packets, scrapes TLS Client Hello messages, and cranks out simplified JA4-style hashes from their cipher suite lists. The fun part? It's running under tight stack limit..

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I'm Building a Browser for Reverse Engineers

A researcher rolled their ownChromium forkwith a customDevTools Protocol (CDP) domain- not for fun, but to surgically probe browser internals. It reaches into Canvas, WebGL, and other trickier APIs, dodging the usual sandbox and spoofing all the bot blockers they'd rather you leave alone. It injects..

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OpenAI Agent Builder: A Complete Guide to Building AI Workflows Without Code

OpenAI’sAgent Builderdrops the guardrails. It’s a no-code, drag-and-drop playground for building, testing, and shipping AI workflows - logic flows straight from your brain to the screen. Tweak interfaces inWidget Studio. Plug into real systems with theAgents SDK. Just one catch: it’s locked behind P..

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Write Deep Learning Code Locally and Run on GPUs Instantly

Modal cuts the drama out of deep learning ops. Devs write Python like usual, then fire off training, eval, and serving scripts to serverless GPUs - zero cluster wrangling. It handles data blobs, image builds, and orchestration. You focus on tuning with libraries like Unsloth, or serving via vLLM...

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Technical Tuesday: 10 best practices for building reliable AI agents in 2025

UiPath just droppedAgent Builder in Studio- a legit development environment for AI agents that can actually handle enterprise chaos. Think production-grade: modular builds, traceable steps, and failure handling that doesn’t flake under pressure. It’s wired forschema-driven prompts,tool versioning, a..

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Serverless RL: Faster, Cheaper and More Flexible RL Training

New product, Serverless RL, available through collaboration between CoreWeave, Weights & Biases, and OpenPipe. Offers fast training, lower costs, and simple model deployment. Saves time with no infra setup, faster feedback loops, and easier entry into RL training...

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The RAG Obituary: Killed by Agents, Buried by Context Windows

Agent-based setups are starting to edge out old-school RAG. As LLMs snag multi-million-token context windows and better task chops, the need for chunking, embeddings, and reranking starts to fade. Claude Code, for example, skips all that - with direct file access and smart navigation instead. Retrie..

Flask is an open-source web framework written in Python and created by Armin Ronacher in 2010. It is known as a microframework, not because it is weak or incomplete, but because it provides only the essential building blocks for developing web applications. Its core focuses on handling HTTP requests, defining routes, and rendering templates, while leaving decisions about databases, authentication, form handling, and other components to the developer. This minimalistic design makes Flask lightweight, flexible, and easy to learn, but also powerful enough to support complex systems when extended with the right tools.

At the heart of Flask are two libraries: Werkzeug, which is a WSGI utility library that handles the low-level details of communication between web servers and applications, and Jinja2, a templating engine that allows developers to write dynamic HTML pages with embedded Python logic. By combining these two, Flask provides a clean and pythonic way to create web applications without imposing strict architectural patterns.

One of the defining characteristics of Flask is its explicitness. Unlike larger frameworks such as Django, Flask does not try to hide complexity behind layers of abstraction or dictate how a project should be structured. Instead, it gives developers complete control over how they organize their code and which tools they integrate. This explicit nature makes applications easier to reason about and gives teams the freedom to design solutions that match their exact needs. At the same time, Flask benefits from a vast ecosystem of extensions contributed by the community. These extensions cover areas such as database integration through SQLAlchemy, user session and authentication management, form validation with CSRF protection, and database migration handling. This modular approach means a developer can start with a very simple application and gradually add only the pieces they require, avoiding the overhead of unused components.

Flask is also widely appreciated for its simplicity and approachability. Many developers write their first web application in Flask because the learning curve is gentle, the documentation is clear, and the framework itself avoids unnecessary complexity. It is particularly well suited for building prototypes, REST APIs, microservices, or small to medium-sized web applications. At the same time, production-grade deployments are supported by running Flask applications on WSGI servers such as Gunicorn or uWSGI, since the development server included with Flask is intended only for testing and debugging.

The strengths of Flask lie in its minimalism, flexibility, and extensibility. It gives developers the freedom to assemble their application architecture, choose their own libraries, and maintain tight control over how things work under the hood. This is attractive to experienced engineers who dislike being boxed in by heavy frameworks. However, the same freedom can become a limitation. Flask does not include features like an ORM, admin interface, or built-in authentication system, which means teams working on very large applications must take on more responsibility for enforcing patterns and maintaining consistency. In situations where a project requires an opinionated, all-in-one solution, Django or another full-stack framework may be a better fit.

In practice, Flask has grown far beyond its initial positioning as a lightweight tool. It has been used by startups for rapid prototypes and by large companies for production systems. Its design philosophy—keep the core simple, make extensions easy, and let developers decide—continues to attract both beginners and professionals. This balance between simplicity and power has made Flask one of the most enduring and widely used Python web frameworks.