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Architecture Notes Weekly: Trio out now! Why pgvector might not cut it in production How bloom filters fail at scale Why LLMs can’t replace hands-on learning Plus: slashing cloud costs and Postgres as a lakehouse system Join thousands of engineers! Don’t miss out 🚀
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Building GenAI infra isn’t theory—it’s hard-won experience. Learn from 60+ engineers who’ve scaled LLMs, vector stores & RAG pipelines at QCon SF 2025. What worked. What failed. What to avoid.
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Architecture Notes Weekly: Generator out now! How AWS serves 1 petabyte per second on old hard drives The 14-hour outage that killed Slack, Signal, and Premier League Building a key-value database from scratch with LSM trees Join thousands of engineers! Don't miss out! 🚀
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Selling to enterprises? Features like SSO, Directory Sync (SCIM), and Audit Logs are must-haves — but building them in-house is expensive and time-consuming let @WorkOS do the heavy lifting. Here is how they saved one company almost 8 million.
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Arc Notes Weekly #90: Halt is out now! 1.Lessons from Canva’s outage on resilience 2.uv: The package manager simplifying Python scripting 3.Building your own data center for personal projects 4.Test-driven development with LLMs Join 68,312 subscribers! Don’t miss out!
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Arc Notes Weekly #89: Land 1. Discover how Threads scaled for 300M+ users. 2. Master advanced Git commands. 3. Explore innovations making SQLite 100x faster for serverless and edge computing. Join 60K readers. Don’t miss out!
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Capture and share deep session replays, from frontend screens to backend traces, metrics, and logs with @trymultiplayer's new Platform Debugger.
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