Update (October 2024): In response to numerous requests from external developers, we have open-sourced a version of our Enzyme to React Testing Library (RTL) conversion tool. You can now find it on npm, along with detailed instructions on how to integrate and use it in your projects. In the world of frontend development, one thing remains…
Companies Join Forces to Enrich OpenAI’s Generative AI Products and Platforms with Premium Journalism
Introduction In this article, we are going to see how we can use the PostgreSQL COPY command to export a large result set to an external file. ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) When implementing an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process, you might have to extract a large result set from a relational database in order to transform it according to some…
In this course you will learn the Kotlin programming language from the ground. It is a comprehensive overview of the language as well as an overview of best object-oriented programming practices.
Learning to write code is easy, but learning to write “good” code is a different story entirely. In this course, developers will learn best practices when writing object-oriented code as well as be introduced to design patterns.
I worked at Stripe for about seven years, from 2012 to 2019. Over that time, I used and contributed to many generations of Stripe’s developer environment – the tools that engineers used daily to write and test code. I think Stripe did a pretty good job designing and building that developer experience, and since leaving, I’ve found myself repeatedly describing…
How to use PubNub's Channel Monitor and Access Manager to create a secure and moderated chat application
I do not enjoy exercise, but I'm at that age where I can see far enough into my future that I would like to remain mobile and healthy well into my later years. So I exercise. I'm not into sports and I find it relatively boring, but this is what is working for me. In the average week I do…
Artificial general intelligence has the potential to benefit nearly every aspect of our lives—so it must be developed and deployed responsibly.
LLMs summarize well, but summaries hinder deep learning. For engineers, relying solely on them creates a surface-level understanding.
In this interview, Ivo Dimitrov, Distributed Data Systems VP of Engineering, describes the engineering career that led him to Datadog and his committment to helping build out our core backend platforms.
Introducing Instant Bank Pay: quick, card-free payments for sports clubs!
We know that successful and safe payments are at the heart of any business
How we handle memory usage in our .NET continuous profiler.
How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen We worked with industry-leading casting and directing professionals to narrow down over 400 submissions before selecting the 5 voices.
Steven Clontz informed me of an effort he’s involved in called code4math. It’s described as a professional organization for the advancement of mathematical research through building non-research software infrastructure. By that he means, for example, writing software packages like Macaulay2 or databases of mathematical objects that other researchers can use to do their research. Clontz recently gave a talk on…
Explore the enhanced scalability features of MongooseIM 6.2.1 with its improved CETS in-memory storage backend, offering flexible solutions for managing unpredictable XMPP server traffic. The post Instant Scalability with MongooseIM and CETS appeared first on Erlang Solutions.
Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT Interact with tables and charts and add files directly from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive.
OpenAI and Reddit Partnership We’re bringing Reddit’s unique content to ChatGPT and our products.
Canva is a visual communication platform, enjoyed by more than 175 million people monthly to make presentations, videos, documents, websites, social media graphics and more. A majority of the world’s knowledge workers lack design training, but Canva’s combination of an easy-to-use interface, vast libraries, and time-saving tools allows anyone to create visually compelling content.
Learn how to improve the monetization and balancing for your game in real time with Illuminate
Today the extensions platform becomes generally available in the development version of Blender.
Coming from TypeScript, the difference between behaviours and protocols in elixir might not be immediately obvious. Both of them look pretty much like an interface from two different angles. We’ll go into detail to try and clear up how they are different in this post, and also how they are similar. Key Points Behaviours: Behaviours […] The post Elixir Protocols…
Introduction In this article, we are going to analyze the PostgreSQL plan_cache_mode setting and see when it’s useful to override a given generic plan using the the force_custom_plan strategy. Domain Model Let’s assume we have the following post table: The post_status type is an Enum that was created like this: We have 100,000 post records in our database that have…
Prologue This is the fourth and final instalment of our series. In this piece, we’ll dive into our experiences and insights gained while tackling this project at Housing.com . Previous Chapter: CLS: Changing the perspective (Vol.3) Over the years we have tried a lot of approaches, some approaches required design inputs while on the other hand some ideas were tech…
Join us May 21st and discover the future of live streaming and live interactions utilizing PubNub and Livepeer technologies.
In today's healthcare industry, data is the lifeline driving advancements and improving patient outcomes. However, the true value of this data is realized only when it is accessible and interoperable across systems. The post The Golden Age of Data Transformation in Healthcare appeared first on Erlang Solutions.
It's been over a decade since I last updated my article for new users to the Mac, so time for a new one that I can point people too. This article is intended to give a quick and easy introduction to some key things that I think you should know when you move to using macOS. Basics There’s one menu…
Elixir vs. Java – which one is better for your business? Discover key differences in performance, scalability, and ease of development of these two languages. The post Comparing Elixir vs Java appeared first on Erlang Solutions.
I joined Materialize’s Quality Assurance (QA) development team over a year ago. Since our team is small, we have to be conscious about focusing our time on the most impactful testing and test tooling. Our goal is to find issues in Materialize as early and as efficiently as possible, ideally before a pull request even lands. Despite our small team,…
Follow this step-by-step how-to on getting presence up and running in your PubNub portal
Remembering the WiFi password when on a guest network is never easy. Even worse is when it’s no longer posted and someone else is asking you for it. Luckily there’s a built in Windows command to recover the password of a given WiFi network. The Shell Code Open cmd and execute the following command: The result of the command, assuming…
We’re announcing GPT-4 Omni, our new flagship model which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time.
Introducing GPT-4o and making more capabilities available for free in ChatGPT.
Introducing GPT-4o and more tools to ChatGPT free users We are launching our newest flagship model and making more capabilities available for free in ChatGPT.
POSSE stands for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. I first heard about it from Cory Doctorow. I’m experimenting with automation to convert posts tagged shortform into Mastodon threads (I’m mathstodon.xyz/@j2kun). I’m using Hugo as a static site generator, with the source a (private) GitHub repository, and Netlify for deployments. After a deployment, Netlify calls a serverless function that…
A look into the potential impact of generative AI tools in the creative industry Video Killed the Radio Star The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” highlights some concerns regarding the rise of technology within the creative industry. Released back in 1979, the hit ironically proceeded to become MTV’s first music video. The lyrics “rewritten by machine on new technology”…
The FDA's Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and Traceability Rules has made it necessary to implement stricter tracking on food supply chains.
Happy mother’s day! This will be probably the last minor v1 release of GoReleaser. V2 will not be a big update, rather, it’ll be the same as v1.26, but removing all the deprecated stuff. That said, let’s see what’s new on this version!
The CSS Anchor Positioning API is a game-changer in web development because it lets you natively position elements.
I’m in the process of retiring, and although I will not be settling back in my rocking chair—I have lots of writing I want to do—I’m no longer teaching. On April 30, I gave a farewell talk. If you’re interested, the video is here and the slides are here. (And you can always find both on my "Talks" web page.)
Advantages and disadvantages of Ruby and Elixir, as well as their optimal use cases and other key characteristics, providing you with a clearer insight into both languages. The post Elixir vs Ruby: A Comprehensive Guide appeared first on Erlang Solutions.
The Data Engineering team is responsible for Slack’s data lake, analytics dashboards, and other data services. The team’s mission is to empower users to leverage data to make decisions quickly, accurately, and easily. Slack’s data lake grew in size from sub-petabyte to over 100 petabytes in recent years and it now spans millions of tables.…
Introduction In this article, we are going to see how you can override the FetchType.EAGER strategy using the fetchgraph query hint. While this feature has been available in the JPA specification since version 2.1, Hibernate has only supported this feature since version 5.5. JPA FetchType.EAGER and FetchType.LAZY strategies The fetching strategy can be specified either at the entity mapping level…
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the Data Wrangler extension for Visual Studio Code! Data Wrangler is a free extension that offers data viewing and cleaning that is directly integrated into VS Code and the Jupyter extension. It provides a rich user interface to view and analyze your data, show insightful […] The post Announcing Data…
One of GitHub’s core values is Diverse and Inclusive. It is a guiding thought for how we operate, reminding us that GitHub serves a developer community that spans a wide range of geography and ability. Putting diversity and inclusivity into practice means incorporating a wide range of perspectives into our work. To that point, disability and accessibility are an integral…
I've always been a huge fan of the command line and have been using the gh command line tool to access GitHub for a while. My current client uses GitLab and I was delighted to discover that there is a glab CLI tool. As you can imagine, both tools do essentially the same thing: operate on GitHub/GitLab from the command…
AI Usage # AI tools are used in my content for two purposes: Generating featured images for certain blog posts. Proofreading certain sections of my writing for spelling and grammatical errors. I have no intention/interest in using AI tools to generate written content for this blog. All thoughts, opinions, musings, and ideas expressed here are entirely from my own noggin.
Just over a year after launching ChatGPT, AI is changing how we live, work and learn. It’s also raised important conversations about data in the age of AI. More on our approach, a new Media Manager for creators and content owners, and where we’re headed.
Today we’re introducing new technology to help researchers identify content created by our tools and joining the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity Steering Committee to promote industry standards.
Following the previous post about creating an Application Layer Load Balancer, today I'm going to share my journey about another challenge I took and completed: Create a simple…
I’ve been learning recently about how to approximate functions by low-degree polynomials. This is useful in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) in the context of “arithmetic FHE” (see my FHE overview article), where the computational model makes low-degree polynomials cheap to evaluate and non-polynomial functions expensive or impossible. In browsing the state of the art I came across two interesting things.…
Bazaarvoice has thousands of clients including brands and retailers. Bazaarvoice has billions of records of product catalog and User Generated Content(UGC)from Bazaarvoice clients. When a shopper visits a brand or retailer site/app powered by Bazaarvoice, our APIs are triggered. In 2023,Bazaarvoice UGC APIs recorded peak traffic of over 3+ billion calls per day with zero […]
Ace your system design interview! Learn a structured 5-step approach to tackle open-ended questions and showcase your engineering skills.
API Partnership with Stack Overflow Stack Overflow and OpenAI today announced a new API partnership that will empower developers with the collective strengths of the world’s leading knowledge platform for highly technical content with the world’s most popular LLM models for AI development.
About two years ago, I switched teams at Google to focus on fully homomorphic encryption (abbreviated FHE, or sometimes HE). Since then I’ve got to work on a lot of interesting projects, learning along the way about post-quantum cryptography, compiler design, and the ins and outs of fully homomorphic encryption. If you’ve heard about FHE and you’re a software person,…
The May 2024 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include a new Pylance code action and setting, removal of debugpy from the Python extension, socket disablement for testing scenarios, and Pylance performance updates. Keep reading to learn more! The post Python in Visual Studio Code – May 2024 Release…
Let’s explore the updates brought by Node.js 22, which promises enhancements in performance and development flexibility. Direct download links are available here. Here’s a rundown of the key features and improvements in the latest release. Stable WebSocket Support: Node.js 22 now offers stable WebSocket support, which was previously experimental. This means we can use the […] The post Node.js 22…
Manage the stresses of complex problem-solving, tight deadlines, and high-pressure situations at work with integrity and emotional intelligence. A few years ago, I discovered Don Miguel Ruiz’s renowned book, The Four Agreements, which provides four simple yet profound principles for personal growth and self-improvement. Since then, I’ve found myself frequently applying its principles to navigate workplace challenges, such as communicating…
With PubNub Illuminate, you can effortlessly aggregate data from your systems in real time and set up decision rules that trigger immediate actions
By Jun Yang , Zhenyin Yang , and Srinivasan Manoharan , based on the AI/ML modernization journey taken by the PayPal Cosmos.AI Platform team in the past three years. Source: Dall-E 3 AI is a transformative technology that PayPal has been investing in as a company for over a decade. Across the enterprise, we leverage AI/ML responsibly to address a…
Tee Teoh explores the importance naming your programming daemons and how to effectively label your Elixir processes for clearer code. The post Naming your Daemons appeared first on Erlang Solutions.
Introduction Welcome to a new issue of the High-Performance Java Persistence Newsletter in which we share articles, videos, workshops, and StackOverflow answers that are very relevant to any developer who interacts with a database system using Java. Articles The pick of this week is this article which describes how bandwidth, latency, IOPS, and jitter works in a relational database system.…
This past weekend I had the opportunity to be what every father wants, if only for a moment: the “cool dad”. My wife was out of town and my youngest son wanted to play PUBG. I caved in, taught him the basic FPS key binds, and he was having a great time. While he was fragging out, he pressed a…
Alexis Lucio, Catherine McNally, and Lindsey Wild‘s axe-con 2024 talk, “Establishing a Scalable A11y Education Ecosystem,” which laid the foundation for this blog post. Free registration required. Laying the foundation In today’s digital world, accessibility isn’t merely a checkbox—it’s the cornerstone of creating an inclusive experience for all users. At GitHub, we recognize this fundamental truth. That’s why we’ve embarked…
life. As “We stand on the brink… we peer into the abyss…” (Poe, 2022).we peer into the abyss,1 many grow sick with emergent This is not to say that these diseases are naturally occurring facts, nor that these diseases do not exist. They are really experienced diseases that are contingent upon existing conditions of neoliberal capitalism.social diseases—anxiety, depression, exhaustion, and…
Learn how we used DDSketch to enhance our heatmap visualizations, allowing us to represent and analyze high cardinality data distributions at scale.
Bookmarks for May 2024: 11 links - How to be an amateur polyglot — LessWrong; App Modernisation — Just Do It. As a consu..., and more.
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash A simple guide on how to connect Snowflake data in Power BI to create reports, publish them, and schedule refreshes. Pre-requisites Well, since you’ve already reached this page, I’m assuming that you know of, and have access to both the tools — Snowflake as well as Power BI. In case you do not have…
I wanted to stash just the unstaged changes in my git repo. There's a git stash --staged which will stash the staged files, but I didn't see an equivalent to stash just the unstaged ones. Obviously, this is a common problem so a minute or two of googling will find the Git stash uncached: how to put away all unstaged…
At a time when it's increasingly hard to save, how can you make saving easier?
OpenMapTiles 3.15, the open-source vector tiles map-generation tool, is out now. It enhances the road network, improves water features, and better cartography.
We will also collaborate on new AI experiences for FT readers.
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When Mozilla’s Innovation group first launched the llamafile project late last year, we were thrilled by the immediate positive response from open source AI developers. It’s become one of Mozilla’s top three most-favorited repositories on GitHub, attracting a number of contributors, some excellent PRs, and a growing community on our Discord server. The post Llamafile’s progress, four months in appeared…
At first glance, it may sound absurd. Here we have technical debt, a purely engineering problem, as technical as it can get, and another area,... The post Technical debt and HR – what do they have in common? appeared first on Erlang Solutions.
Popover provides so many great developer affordances for building layered interfaces like tooltips, menus, teaching UIs, and more.
Check out the easy-to-understand guide on how API secret codes allow developers to access and use certain features or services provided by an app
PubNub Functions JavaScript issues HTTP requests to communicate with the HuggingFace API, sending text inputs and receiving AI results.
Bazaarvoice notification system stands as a testament to cutting-edge technology, designed to seamlessly dispatch transactional email messages (post-interaction email or PIE) on behalf of our clients. The heartbeat of our system lies in the constant influx of new content, driven by active content solicitations. Equipped with an array of tools, including email message styling, default […]
Introduction In this article, we are going to see what is the best way we can use OneToOne optional attribute so that we can avoid N+1 query issues. One-To-One table relationship As I explained in this article, in a one-to-one table relationship, the parent and the child tables share the Primary Key column values because the child table Primary Key…
Accelerating the development of life-saving treatments.
GPT-3.5 Turbo, DALL·E and Whisper APIs are also generally available, and we are releasing a deprecation plan for older models of the Completions API, which will retire at the beginning of 2024.
This course provides a solid foundation in Swift programming, along with hands-on experience in utilizing Xcode and Version Control tools.
Ready for next-gen low-latency communication? Discover how WebTransport API that can transform real-time apps with seamless, fast data streaming!
In this blog post, we delve into the motivations for choosing Rust for our crash reporter, outline the unique challenges of designing an application that operates when the main browser has failed, and discuss the new architecture we've implemented. We also share insights into the technical nuances of the implementation, demonstrating how Rust's features are leveraged to handle crashes more…
While reading Alex Chan's post about experimenting with the Flickr API, I noticed the call out to keyring by Jason Coombs for accessing the macOS Keychain. The built-in app: security The built-in way to access the keychain from the command line is /usr/bin/security: To create a password: $ security add-generic-password -s FlickrAPI -a rodeo -w redacted-key Note that you need…
Increasing enterprise support with more security features and controls, updates to our Assistants API, and tools to better manage costs.
Earlier this year, we updated our API Guide to let developers know that SoundCloud authentication is now operating on the OAuth 2.1 protocol…
How we've collaborated with peers to create a stepping stone to a VRP MLA
Today's LLMs are susceptible to prompt injections, jailbreaks, and other attacks that allow adversaries to overwrite a model's original instructions with their own malicious prompts.
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