Intentional Code - Minimalism in a World of Dogmatic Design - David Whitney - NDC Oslo 2023
The speaker discusses intentional code and minimalism as a response to the sentiment that software maintenance is frustrating due to poor design. Rather than focusing on code in this talk, the speaker...
Knowledge Graphs & LLMs: Fine-Tuning Vs. Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Learn about the limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) and how to overcome them using knowledge graphs and retrieval-augmented generation. In this blog post, Tomaz Bratanic explains how Neo4js Na...
Knowledge Graphs & LLMs: Multi-Hop Question Answering
In this blog post by Tomaz Bratanic on the Neo4j Developer Blog, he discusses the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in conjunction with knowledge graphs to enable multi-hop question answering. This ...
Sam Altman invests $180 million to add 10 years onto human life expectancy through Retro Biosciences
Retro Biosciences, a startup with a goal of adding 10 years onto the average human life span, has received $180 million from Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. Altman, a prominent figure in Silicon Valley and...
SST in 100 seconds
SST is an open source tool designed to simplify the process of building full stack web applications with Amazon Web Services (AWS). It addresses the complexity of integrating various AWS web services ...
# OP Vault
OP Vault is a practical and valuable tool based on the OP Stack, which consists of OpenAI and Pinecone Vector Database. The tool allows users to upload their own custom knowledgebase files and ask que...
Adding an RSS feed to your Next.js app
RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is one of the means used by site publishers to distribute content in a timely manner. In this lesson, we will learn how to integrate an RSS feed into a Next.js appli...
Gnothi - An AI-assisted journal and toolkit for self-discovery
Gnothi is an open-source project that uses AI to help individuals on their self-discovery journey. It is a journal and toolkit that enables users to analyze their dreams, track habits, and connect wit...
Next.js: Generating RSS Feeds with Static Site Generation
In this post, JonathanMH shares his configuration for generating RSS feeds for his statically generated Next.js site using npmjs.org/feed. With the help of a generateFeeds function, he sets up the fee...
Minimum Viable Architecture • Randy Shoup • YOW! 2022
Randy Shoup, former VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at eBay, gave a talk on minimal viable architecture, highlighting that there is no one perfect architecture for all scales, phases of evolutio...
Bytes Are All You Need: Transformers Operating Directly On File Bytes
This paper investigates the possibility of performing deep learning classification directly on file bytes without the need for decoding files at inference time. The authors demonstrate ByteFormer, a m...
Implementing Dapr State Management in ASP.NET Core Web APIs
Learn how Daprs State Management API simplifies handling state in distributed architectures, enabling you to store state across a variety of data stores. With the ability to configure the level of dat...
KNet: A New Way to Use Apache Kafka from .NET
KNet offers a new approach for using Apache Kafka from .NET by executing the Java code of the validated Apache Kafka distribution directly, rewriting APIs only. With KNet, users have access to the sam...
KNet: the Apache Kafka .NET suite
KNet is a comprehensive .NET suite for Apache Kafka APIs providing all features: Producer, Consumer, Admin, Streams, Connect, backends (ZooKeeper and Kafka). This project aims to create a set of libra...
Datadog Creates Scalable Data Ingestion Architecture
Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture with event-driven architecture (EDA) offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. The architecture of Husky se...
Dapr v1.11 Release Highlights and Local Development of Cloud-Native Apps with Dapr and Testcontainers
The Dapr maintainers released version 1.11 of the distributed application runtime, with new features and upgrades for building microservices reliably and quickly. The Configuration building block is n...
GPT Engineer: AI that builds your codebase based on a prompt
GPT Engineer is an AI tool that generates an entire codebase by asking for clarification on what you want it to build. It is flexible and easy to adapt, allowing you to create your own AI steps and ev...
How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours
In this article, the author explains how they crawled 250,113,669 webpages in 39 hours and 25 minutes using 20 Amazon EC2 machine instances for just under 580 dollars. They also discuss the challenges...
Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development
Sequence diagrams shine when documenting parts of a system and how they interact, mapping messages and operations. They can even model conditional and divergent flows. UML, which introduced sequence d...
Insights from Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023
In May 2023, Stack Overflow conducted their annual survey and received responses from over 90,000 developers. This report delves into developer education, learning to code, experience, roles, territor...