Explores the massive and growing number of public APIs in the .NET ecosystem, analyzing counts across different versions of ASP.NET Core.
An introduction to building a minimal automatic differentiation package in Julia, focusing on explicit chain rules and the Julia AD ecosystem.
Explains how Apache Iceberg's design ensures data reliability, atomic operations, and serializable isolation for large-scale data lakehouses.
An investigation into unexpected high costs on Cloudflare Images, detailing billing discrepancies and confusing invoice structures for a small-scale project.
Explains how to use Azure Resource Explorer to manage large Access Control Lists (ACLs) directly via the ARM API, avoiding manual portal work.
Explains how to integrate Azure Digital Twins into an existing IoT solution for enhanced device modeling, insights, and control.
Reflects on the CrowdStrike outage to argue that software testing's core purpose is to uncover and report risk, not just find bugs.
Explores the common architectural components and implementation steps for building a scalable generative AI platform, from basic models to complex systems.
A detailed review of the updated Advantage360 Pro Signature Edition ergonomic mechanical keyboard, covering build quality, new features, and personal user experience.
A technical introduction to Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) in R, explaining its concepts, graphical models, and applications in research.
A tech leader discusses the challenges of navigating politics and personal beliefs in the workplace, especially during polarizing times, and argues for pragmatic leadership.
A guide to setting clear metrics and measurement strategies before implementing web performance optimizations to ensure measurable impact.
A guide exploring the reasons, benefits, and process of migrating from Terraform to the open-source fork, OpenTofu.
A technical guide on configuring web content filtering policies using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to block malicious or unwanted websites.
Explains how the C# compiler transforms async/await code into a state machine, detailing the process with a simplified example.
How eBPF technology can prevent system crashes like the massive July 2024 Windows outage caused by a faulty kernel driver update.
A tutorial on advanced text styling in R's ggplot2, including dynamic color adjustment and using the new {marquee} package for markdown formatting.
Explores recent research on instruction finetuning for LLMs, including a cost-effective method for generating synthetic training data from scratch.
Explores recent research on instruction finetuning for LLMs, including cost-effective data generation methods and an overview of new models like Gemma 2.
A list of upcoming tech talks and events by Alex Merced, focusing on Apache Iceberg, data lakehouses, and data engineering topics.
