An Ode to Software Engineers
A love letter to my fellow problem solvers and tinkerers.Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on UnsplashWe are an odd bunch.We spend our days staring into screens, or sometimes into nothingness trying to understand a problem we’re trying to solve. We also spend our days trying to convince other humans that the problems we’re
Read moreHow to Get Started With Iac for Google Cloud
Your step-by-step guide for a secure Terraform setupContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreJourney to the cloud part I: Migrating Stack Overflow Teams to Azure
Stack Overflow for Team's journey to the cloud started with a new name.
Read moreFirst time seeing a rare event
Suppose you’ve been monitoring a rare event for a long time, then you see your first occurrence on the Nth observation. Now what would you say about the event’s probability? For example, suppose you’re wondering whether dogs ever have two tails. You observe thousands of dogs and never see two
Read moreExploring TipKit: Creating Your First Tip
Learn how to craft and display your first user-friendly tip in your SwiftUI app using Apple’s new TipKit framework.Photo by Rob Hampson on UnsplashTipKit is a framework to help you easily present helpful tips and educational cues to users, guiding them through the features of an app at the right moment.
Read moreExploring End-to-End Evaluation of RAG Pipelines
Evaluation comparison between DevSecOps RAG pipelines with and without recursive document agentsContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreCrafting Targeted Email Campaigns with Mailchimp and Drupal
Learn how to build a targeted audience in marketing by combining Mailchimp and Drupal to create effective email marketing campaigns. Continue reading Crafting Targeted Email Campaigns with Mailchimp and Drupal on SitePoint.
Read moreStellar magnitude
Imagine the following dialog. “Logarithms are usually taken to integer bases, like 2 or 10.” “What about e?” “OK, that’s an example of an irrational base, but it’s the only one.” “Decibels are logarithms to base 101/10.” “Really?!” “Yeah, you can read about this here.” “That’s weird. But logarithms are always
Read moreBYOC: Build Your Own Community
Working for yourself in a post-pandemic worldPhoto by Hannah Busing on UnsplashThere are many things to like about fractional work as a parent. But what you gain in flexibility and freedom, you lose in socialization and connection.When the world started opening up again after the pandemic, the data all pointed toward
Read moreUsing Google BigQuery OMNI to Query Data In-place From AWS S3
The most modern mechanism for shifting your data from one cloud to another for analytics and insights might be to not move it at allFrom AWS to GCP via the route of magic. No, not really. It’s BigQuery OMNI.The facts of data analyticsIf you’ve been following the trends around data and analytics
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