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August 9, 2021

Move Fast, Break Things & Win: How Facebook Builds Software

Founder, professional poker player, podcaster and author, Jeff Meyerson, "broke his brain" to bring you the inside-story of Facebook.

Interviewing more than two dozen Facebook engineers, Jeff spent two and a half years writing his new book Move Fast: How Facebook Builds Software. Written from Facebook's own view of their software strategy and tactics, Move Fast explores the product strategy, cultural principles, and technologies that made Facebook the dominant social networking company.

June 14, 2019

DevOps Table Stakes: The Minimum Amount Required to Play the Game

Ever play poker? Table stakes, or the ante, is the minimum amount to play the game. So let's take a look today at DevOps table stakes — what's necessary to even come to the table and play the game these days.

The idea here is to get you to think a little differently about your approach to DevOps and DevSecOps.

Packages for Store Routines in MariaDB 11.4
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MariaDB 11.4 introduced many advanced features. One that grabbed my attention is the general support of packages for stored routines. Although this was previously available by activating the Oracle compatibility mode, now the feature is available gener... […]
Maintain Chat History in Generative AI Apps With Valkey
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A while back I wrote up a blog post on how to use Redis as a chat history component with LangChain. Since LangChain already had Redis chat history available as a component, it was quite convenient to write a client application. But, that's not the same... […]
Knowledge Graph Enlightenment, AI, and RAG
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In the previous edition of the YotG newsletter, the wave of Generative AI hype was probably at its all-time high. Today, while Generative AI is still talked about and trialed, the hype is subsiding. Skepticism is settling in, and for good reason. Repor... […]
Building an Effective Zero Trust Security Strategy for End-To-End Cyber Risk Management
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You've probably heard a lot about zero-trust security lately, and for good reason. As we move more of our applications and data to the cloud, the traditional castle-and-moat approach to security just doesn't cut it anymore. This makes me come... […]
Phased Approach to Data Warehouse Modernization
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A modernized database will help you focus on building innovative solutions rather than investing your time and effort in managing these legacy systems. Based on the scale of your existing data warehouse processes or jobs, it can be an enormous task to ... […]