This post is for developers that have an intuitive knowledge of what database indexes are, but don’t necessarily know how they work internally, what are the tradeoffs associated with indexes, what are the types of indexes provided by postgres and how you can use some of its more advanced options to .. read more  

A former Azure Core engineer recounts arriving on his first day to find a 122-person org seriously planning to port Windows-based VM management agents - 173 of them, which nobody could fully explain - onto a tiny, low-power ARM chip running Linux. The stack was already failing to scale on server-gra.. read more  

The essay discusses the misconceptions around companies that burn a lot of money, drawing comparisons to Amazon's successful strategy. It delves into examples like Uber and WeWork to highlight the importance of understanding the long-term implications of cash burn. The focus is on the strategies and.. read more  

The author experimented with storing data in a Logitech mouse's flash memory. Logitech mice communicate through HID++, a protocol that maps device features using stable IDs. Despite efforts to write data to certain registers, only the DPI register could retain data across power cycles... read more  

In the wake of AI coding assistants like Claude and Codex, many wonder if the human role of "computer programmer" is ending. Although AI shows promise, human developers are valuable in the current transitional period. Real programmers are uniquely positioned to harness AI's power while augmenting it.. read more  

At Google Cloud, the llm-d project has been accepted as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox project. This collaboration with industry leaders like Red Hat, IBM Research, CoreWeave, and NVIDIA aims to provide a framework for any model, accelerator, or cloud. The introduction of GKE Inf.. read more  

Over a quarterof production code is now AI-authored, with agents boosting pull requests by 60% when allowed to run autonomously in YOLO mode. Docker Sandboxes provide a safe boundary for agents, enabling fully autonomous operation without risking your machine or data... read more  

Broadcom's $69 billion acquisition of virtualization pioneer VMware in late 2023 brought about significant price increases and a shift towards subscription-based licensing. The company aims to establish VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as the foundation for enterprise workloads gravitating towards priv.. read more