This week
- A database permissions change ended up knocking Cloudflare’s proxy offline. Pinpointing the root cause was tricky – but Cloudflare shared a detailed postmortem. Also: announcing The Pragmatic Summit...
About a month ago
- Deep dive into blobd, an object store designed for constant low latency reads using async Rust, io_uring and atomic writes...
- Learn how to deploy n8n on Google Cloud Run with PostgreSQL and create an AI Agent using Google Gemini 2.5....
about 1 month ago
- Earlier this week, I was having a lot of trouble understanding how to get Dev Containers working. Dev Containers are the required way to enable Github Codespaces, which was my actual goal. I finally got to something that works, so I want to document what I learned. Dev...
- The paper “MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems” (2023) by Charles Packer, Sarah Wooders, Kevin Lin, Vivian Fang, Shishir G. Patil, and Joseph E. Gonzalez introduces a memory management system for LLMs. To enable using context beyond limited context windows, we propose...
about 2 months ago
- I had not encountered the grib2 format before, but it is popular for this kind of data. A brief web search reveals the wgrib2 command-line tool might be helpful. Let’s see, is that in nixpkgs?… Nope. But we can add it. It’s a straightforward CMake build process with no required...
2 months ago
- Self-host Pulumi state with an S3 Bucket, an IAM User, and the Pulumi CLI....
- Seven Years of Firecracker Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. Back at re:Invent 2018, we shared Firecracker with the world. Firecracker is open source software that makes it easy to create and manage small virtual machines. At the time, we talked about...
3 months ago
- I’ve been using Playwright to automate browser tests for ages. I also like to keep my dependencies up to date, so I dutifully ensure Playwright has a working browser installed before I run the tests. Today, I hit a wall where the latest updates just wouldn’t complete the...
- I've been using multiple instances of Claude Code and Codex CLI almost every day. But I've gotten frustrated enough to build something that solidifies my workf...
4 months ago
- Code Sandbox MCP is a simple, self-hosted code interpreter for your AI agents. It allows you to execute code snippets in containerized environments....
5 months ago
- Arlo, Murray, and Ellis are in the breakout room having drinks. Ellis seems stressed, and Murray looks a little vacant. Arlo decides to break the awkward silence. “Did you see that really well-balanced research report on coding assistants?” Arlo asks. Murray and Ellis both...
6 months ago
7 months ago
- While performing some routine maintenance of my Ubuntu server, $ docker compose pull $ docker compose up -d I ran into an interesting situation where nginx-proxy-manager failed to serve my blog properly, I wasn't sure what the issue was but these types of issues are usually...
- A simpler way to create ephemeral environments with Neon and Docker. The term ephemeral gets thrown around a lot in the database world, but what does it actuall......
- A practical guide to Neon Local with JavaScript and Docker Compose for local and production setups ICYMI we recently launched Neon Local. What is Neon Local? Ne......
- Use Docker environments to connect to Neon and manage branches automatically Neon Local is a proxy service that creates a local interface to your Neon cloud dat......
- GPU Compilation with MLIR Continuing on from last time, now that we have our transformer primitives that we need to optimize, let's look at how we can translate high-level tensor operations (like softmax, attention, etc) expressed in MLIR down to low-level code that can run in...
9 months ago
- A better way to build: spin up a Neon Twin and keep production untouched. Your traditional database is rock-solid for handling production workloads—reliable, re......
- Taking ownership of your data and services...
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