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We Needed Better Cloud Storage for Python so We Built Obstore

Obstoreis a new stateless object store that skips fsspec-style caching and keeps its API tight and predictable across S3, GCS, and Azure. Sync and async both work. Under the hood? Fast, zero-copy Rust–Python interop. And on small concurrent async GETs, it reportedly crushes S3FS with up to9x better ..

We Needed Better Cloud Storage for Python so We Built Obstore
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How Salesforce Delivers Reliable, Low-Latency AI Inference

Salesforce’s AI Metadata Service (AIMS) just got a serious speed boost. They rolled out a multi-layer cache—L1 on the client, L2 on the server—and cut inference latency from 400ms to under 1ms. That’s over 98% faster. But it’s not just about speed anymore. L2 keeps responses flowing even when the b..

How Salesforce Delivers Reliable, Low-Latency AI Inference
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Open Source is one person

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Open Source is one person
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Everything I know about good API design

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The unexpected productivity boost of Rust

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From Python to Go: Why We Rewrote Our Ingest Pipeline at Telemetry Harbor

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From Python to Go: Why We Rewrote Our Ingest Pipeline at Telemetry Harbor
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Go is still not good

Go’s been catching flak for years, and the hits keep coming: stiff variable scoping, no destructor patterns, clunky error handling, and brittle build directives. Critics point out how Go’s design often blocks best practices like RAII and makes devs contort logic just to clean up resources or manage ..

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Lessons learned from building a sync-engine and reactivity system with SQLite

A dev ditched Electric + PGlite for a lean, browser-native sync setup built aroundWASM SQLite,JSON polling, andBroadcastChannel reactivity. It’s running inside a local-first notes app. Changes get logged with DB triggers. Sync state? Tracked by hand. Svelte stores update via lightweight polling, wi..

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Developer's block

Overdoing “best practices” can kill momentum. Think endless tests, wall-to-wall docs, airtight CI, and coding rules rigid enough to snap. Sounds responsible—until it slows dev to a crawl. The piece argues for flipping that script. Start scrappy. Build fast. Save the polish for later. It’s how you d..

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Bash Explained: How the Most Popular Linux Shell Works

Bash isn't going anywhere. It's still the glue for CI/CD, cron jobs, and whatever janky monitoring stack someone duct-taped together at 2am. If automation runs the show, Bash is probably in the pit orchestra. It keeps things moving on Linux, old-school macOS (think pre-Catalina), and even WSL. Stil..

Did you know you can clap for someone’s content up to 50 times on Medium?

Well, you can.

And to protect you from carpal tunnel syndrome, I packaged that behavior into a little extension for Chrome.

It works like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN3soEz-5Z4

Open up your developer tools (right-click & choose inspect)

Then, navigate to the “console”:

And if you have a bunch of caca (that’s Spanish for đŸ’©) in your Console you can click the little đŸš« icon to clear it:

Then:

copy the JavaScript code below
paste it into the Console area
press the Return key

and spread the clap!

(Scroll up to the top of this article before you press enter if you want to see it in action)

let clapButton = document.querySelector('button[data-testid="headerClapButton"]');
if (clapButton) {
const events = ['mousedown', 'mouseup', 'click'];

async function performClap() {
for (let i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
events.forEach(eventType => {
let event = new MouseEvent(eventType, {
'view': window,
'bubbles': true,
'cancelable': true
});
clapButton.dispatchEvent(event);
});
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 10)); // Introducing a 10ms delay between claps
}
console.log("+50 Claps! Now, go join the SERP community!");
}

performClap();
} else {
console.log("Clap button not found!");
}

Want the extension?

I submitted the extension to the Chrome app store and it’s pending approval as of this writing


But if you’re too excited to sit around when you could be clappin’ it up — you’re welcome to grab the bootleg here:

👉 https://serp.ly/@serp/serp-clapper-medium