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Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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Vercel has released Vercel Drains, a system for exporting observability data from its platform into external services. The feature unifies logs, distributed traces, web analytics events, and performance metrics into a single streaming mechanism.
By Daniel DominguezAWS has recently launched two new Mac instances (M4 and M4 Pro) built on Apple's latest M4 silicon. The new EC2 instances provide faster CPU performance, enhanced graphics, and increased memory for building iOS and macOS applications.
By Renato LosioAgoda started utilizing ChatGPT to optimize SQL stored procedures (SP) as part of their CI/CD process. After introducing the automated LLM-assisted step, the company observed shortened stored procedure optimization times, which lightened the load on DB developers. Agora works on making ChatGPT more accessible for SP optimization outside of the CI/CD pipeline.
By Rafal GancarzSophie Beaumont shares how the BBC's web design system supports over 10 brands and 25 engineering teams, handling 4.8 billion requests monthly. She explains their federated contribution model, which combines automation, mandatory ownership, and a collaborative gardening approach to create a scalable, maintainable, and highly accessible system.
By Sophie BeaumontAnthropic recently published a postmortem revealing that three distinct infrastructure bugs intermittently degraded the output quality of its Claude models in recent weeks. While the company states it has now resolved those issues and is modifying its internal processes to prevent similar disruptions, the community highlights the challenges of running the service across three hardware platforms.
By Renato Losio
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