It’s been a good week, even though I’ve been under the weather. I’ve got a chance to rest up over this weekend and most of next week. I hope you also take a chance to recharge!
[article] American Airlines is deploying new tech to shame boarding line cutters. Fully endorsed. Now if we can also somehow electrocute people who don’t return shopping carts, I’ll be thrilled.
[article] In The Context Of Long Context. Here’s a wonderful post from Steven (who’s part of the NotebookLM effort) about the magic and importance of long context for LLMs.
[article] The case against living in the Bay Area, for ambitious tech people. Forrest brings the heat, and receipts in this great post.
[article] Auditors blast Pentagon over insecure, “antiquated” IT systems. Even when high-profile audits result in embarrassing findings, it’s hard to modernize the offending legacy systems. I can’t imagine how hard it is when the findings aren’t on the front page.
[blog] Leveling Up Fuzzing: Finding more vulnerabilities with AI. Very cool. We’re finding software vulnerabilities in open source projects by using AI to generate fuzz tests.
[blog] What’s new in Spring Modulith 1.3? I’ve been keeping an eye on this “modular monolith” framework from the Spring team. It’s making good progress.
[article] DHH Wants To Make Web Dev Easy Again, With Ruby on Rails. Lots of hot takes in here, but you can always count on some pointed perspectives from DHH.
[article] New York Times and AWS dispel three mainframe to cloud migration myths. Oh, so moving from mainframe to the cloud doesn’t HAVE to impact staffing, performance, or reliability? Great to see.
[blog] Never rewrite code? I’m giving you all sorts of whiplash opinions today. Derek says to think twice before rewriting a system from scratch.
[blog] Boost your Continuous Delivery pipeline with Generative AI. Here’s a neat example of using AI to generate commentary and release notes for every source code change.
[blog] Building a User Signals Platform at Airbnb. I always enjoy these types of posts where companies go deep into their architectures. This one looks at a stream processing system.
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