EP180: Python vs Java
More than the main topic, loved the distinction between Load Balancers vs API Gateways vs Reverse Proxy.
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How DoorDash uses AI Models to Understand Restaurant Menus
What strikes me is the simplicity of the architecture. Interesting use of OCR + LLM to extract + structurize highly inconsistent restaurant menu data. Until multimodal LLMs came along that could do both tasks at once. Human-in-the-loop using their guardrails model is also intriguing.
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Help Us Raise $200k to Free JavaScript from Oracle | Deno
An important fight for the freedom of JS devs!
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How Grab Built An Authentication System for 180+ Million Users
Other than Grab’s specific context, the article provides a good primer on modern authentication and authorization. tl;dr Dex is a cool & open source OIDC-based authentication platform.
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EP179: Kubernetes Explained
Well, I was expecting a bit more detailed explanation for the titular topic.
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How Dropbox Built an AI Product Dash with RAG and AI Agents
While RAG is amazing with high-quality and contextual Q&A type queries, AI agents help with breaking down complex tasks and orchestrating them using plan-validate-execute approach.
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A simple, low-stakes method to practice influencing by leveraging multiple-stakeholder meetings to listen/summarize, build a well-reasoned opinion, and share it with others.
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A simple 3-step framework for getting shit done while giving you some breathing space. Nothing groundbreaking, but a good reminder.
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EP177: The Modern Software Stack
While there’s nothing groundbreaking about the titular infographic, the ones for concurrency vs. parallelism and JWT vs PASETO are intriguing!
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Takeaway mantra: be impatient with inputs (what you control) and patient with outputs (what you don’t control).