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According to Marijn Huizenveld, discipline is key to preventing accumulating technical debt. In order to be disciplined you should make it difficult to ignore the debt. Heuristics like fixing small issues immediately, agreeing on a timebox for improvement, and making messy things look messy, can help tame technical debt.
By Ben LindersElon Musk announced that xAI would make its AI chatbot Grok open source, and now the release is accessible on GitHub and Hugging Face. This move enables researchers and developers to expand upon the model, influencing how xAI evolves Grok in the face of competition from tech giants like OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others.
By Daniel DominguezWilliam Chen discusses the importance of trimming your computational graph, storing data in multiple formats, leveraging open source, and considering multiple dimensions of modularization.
By William ChenRedis has recently announced a change in their license by transitioning from the open-source BSD to the more restrictive Server Side Public License (SSPLv1). The move has promptly led to a fork initiated by former maintainers and reignited discussions surrounding the sustainability of open-source initiatives.
By Renato LosioDigitalOcean has launched automatic horizontal scaling for its App Platform PaaS, aiming to free developers from the burden of scaling services up or down based on CPU load all by themselves.
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