The blog discusses the immaturity of software as a discipline, highlighted by incidents like the CrowdStrike fiasco, which demonstrate the risks of highly centralized software systems. Unlike well-established fields like civil engineering or medicine, software is still in its early stages and faces unpredictable failures due to its complexity and...
Writebook
Writebook is a free tool that allows users to independently publish books online without needing a publisher. It supports adding text, images, and sections, and allows for easy collaboration and reorganization, with the final book being instantly publishable on the web. Read about it here The biggest-ever global outage: lessons...
How does ChatGPT work? As explained by the ChatGPT team
ChatGPT works by converting text input into tokens, creating embeddings for each token, and using a massive weight matrix to predict the next likely token. This process involves pretraining on extensive datasets and applying gradient descent for optimization. The result is a language model that generates coherent, human-like responses based...
Why Engineers Should Study Philosophy
We think it is about the yin and the yang. Every good engineer is a good philosopher. Read it here A Short History of Chatbots If you are into conversational AI, you might want to look at the history and evolution here Interesting Battle There is an interesting battle behind...
What is Security Engineering?
What is Security Engineering? Is security engineering exclusive or should it be part of the dev lifecycle? Take a look here 15 Open-Source Projects That Changed the World We score 14/15. How about you? Take a look here ThoughtWorks Radar Some of our decisions are biased based on what the...
Essential Steps for Successful Product Development: Mastering Needs, Validating, and Pivoting
Exciting news ahead! Introducing TechPulse, a new podcast delving into the dynamic spheres of tech, business, and innovation. Join us for expert interviews and actionable insights to enhance your projects and ventures. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/zunderlekshmanan_techpulse-productdevelopment-customerfirst-activity-7188506235690770435-wOtK?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
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Moving a Billion Postgres Rows on a $100 Budget
An interesting read on how to move large data sets at low cost and less pain. Read it here Champion Building - How to successfully adopt a developer tool In our decades of programming, we just go back to a few. How about you and how possibly you should add...
Measuring Developer Productivity: Real-World Examples
Developer Productivity - Do you measure or Should you measure? Here is an article on how various company measures developer productivity The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence Should AI be feared or adoption should be slowed down or it should be merged into activities that...
Nibble Gems
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