The Pin type (and the concept of pinning in general) is a foundational building block on which the rest of the the Rust async ecosystem stands. Unfortunately, it has also been one of the least accessible and most misunderstood elements of async Rust. This post…
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss how situations like the CrowdStrike outage can reinforce our safe deployment practices.
AI is cheaper than ever with OpenAI's latest announcement of gpt4-o mini. AI is so cheap now, that it's cheaper than the average ad impression.
Accidental blowouts in oil and gas wells can result in large and prolonged methane emissions, which are often unreported when happening in remote places. The rapid advancement of space-based methods for detecting and quantifying methane plumes provides an esse…
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I don’t want to alarm you, but there’s a new arms race underway. On one side, says academic and Youtuber Dr Andrew Stapleton, are artificial intelligence (AI) content creation tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, JasperAI and OwlyWriter AI; on the other are AI cont…
It barely pays attention to the polls. And its results just don't make a lot of sense.
System integration testing is the perfect testing approach for modular monoliths. It's an approach to testing the interactions between various modules within a single system.
👋🏼 This is part of series on concurrency, parallelism and asynchronous programming in Ruby. It’s a deep dive, so it’s divided into 10 main parts: Your Ruby programs are always multi-threaded: Part 1 Your Ruby programs are always multi-threaded: Part 2 Cons…
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Prompt engineering, the skill of effectively communicating with AI, is becoming essential for everyone from non-technical users to software and ML engineers. This article explores how prompt engineering enhances productivity across various domains and its role…
At Val Town we spawn a lot of processes. We're working on making it faster
The post-pandemic return-to-office (RTO) mandates are still the subjects of intense debate about working in the office or remotely, with ...
Summary The main idea behind this post is to describe the approach I used to identify the unknow driver's DriverEntry and its dispatch routines, using the BlackCat driver as an example. Environment Tools used during the analysis: Visual Studio 2019 Communi…
It is becoming more common for companies to come out with stories on the downsides of distributed microservice architectures1(Kolny 2023; Ghemawat et al. 2023). Instead of hopping in this bandwagon, as tempting as this might be, I want to suggest how could one…
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Crowdstrike and Microsoft brought the world down today. Is that the final straw before society cracks down on us?