EKS Node Autoscaling With Large Container Images and a Warm Pool, a Tragedy in Three Parts
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Read moreWhat To Do If Your Employee Isn’t Reaching Their Full Potential
Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselvesContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreChris Corner: The Tao of Demos¹
CodePen is a place where you can make demos. A Pen can be anything (a painting, a game, a landing page), but by and large, Pens today are demos. Why would you make a demo? Fam, why wouldn’t you make a demo? Demos are one of the most powerful tools
Read moreHigh-leverage Activities for Engineering Managers
Photo by Annie Spratt on UnsplashEvery manager has the same number of hours in a day, yet some consistently achieve better results, foster innovation, and cultivate teams that are both happy and highly productive. What sets these managers apart? The secret often lies in their commitment to high-leverage activities.As you navigate
Read moreMastodon account
I have an account on Mastodon: johndcook@mathstodon.xyz. Note that’s @math… and not @mast… One advantage to Mastodon is that you can browse content there without logging, while Twitter is becoming more of a walled garden. You can browse my account, for example, by going to the URL https://mathstodon.xyz/@johndcook There’s hardly
Read moreFake primes
Someone asked on Math Overflow about the distribution of digits in primes. It seems 0 is the least common digit and 1 the most common digit. Dan Piponi replies “this is probably just a combination of general properties of sets of numbers with a density similar to the primes and
Read moreData Preprocessing: Exploring the Keys to Data Preparation
Learn what data preprocessing is, why it's important, and techniques for cleaning, transforming, integrating and reducing your data. Continue reading Data Preprocessing: Exploring the Keys to Data Preparation on SitePoint.
Read moreHibernate is not so evil
You just don’t know it well enoughPhoto from my presentation about Hibernate at Warsaw IT DaysA few years ago, when I was a Junior Backend Developer, I was really frustrated at Hibernate. Every time I made any change in the persistence layer designed by my older colleagues, I had serious problems with
Read moreThe AI Collaborator: How I Teamed Up with GPT to Create W’kid Smaaht
W’kid Smaaht (logo by Dall E 2)Recently, I did what many other engineers have been doing: putting ChatGPT inside Slack. And although there are many great examples on GitHub, this version is different in at least two ways:Practical: Easy to deploy in your organization’s AWS accountNovelty: It has a Bostonian personality ;-)Meet W’kid Smaaht
Read moreTesting Out Llama Cpp Grammar Constraint-based Sampling
A promising new sampling methodPhoto by Element5 Digital on UnsplashSome weeks ago I heard of an innovative work going in the llama-cpp repository that would add grammar constraint-based sampling to the repository.What does that mean? In summary, this new feature would give us a huge potential for generating complex structural output, such
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