In today’s busy Kubernetes setups, downtime hits hard. A single hour of outage can cost big companies millions in lost sales and fixes. Traditional monitoring tools often leave teams scrambling, with mean time to recovery (MTTR) stretching to hours or even days in tangled microservices. You know the drill — alerts flood in, but the real problem hides in the noise. This article shows you how AI for
By default, identifiers in GBase 8s are case‑insensitive: uppercase letters are silently treated as lowercase. Setting the environment variable DELIMIDENT=Y changes how double‑quoted identifiers behave, enabling case‑sensitive table and column names. Here's a demonstration and a deep dive into the option, as used in a gbase database. With DELIMIDENT=y exported, execute the following statements: ex
If you've ever heard "I don't have enough context about your project" from an AI assistant, you know the frustration. Your AI writes perfectly reasonable code that would work great—in a completely different codebase with different conventions, dependencies, and patterns. The problem isn't the AI. It's that you're not giving it enough to work with. I used to paste in 3-4 files and hope for the best
Over the past few months I have been using pretty much every major AI tool available right now. Not for research and not for a project, but just as part of my daily student life. Assignments, coding, building apps, and asking questions. Normal usage. Across all of them, I noticed patterns. Things each one does well, and things each one consistently gets wrong. This is just what I found. Gemini — S
Most AI news tools try to solve information overload by summarizing more content, faster. That was not the product I wanted to build. I wanted something closer to a personal news radar: a system that could watch Hacker News, Reddit, RSS, GitHub, Telegram, and other sources for me, reduce the noise, connect the context, and still leave room for human judgment. So I built Horizon. Horizon is an ope
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You need a thumbnail from a video file. Maybe you're building a video gallery, generating preview images for a CMS, or creating social media cards from uploaded content. The usual advice is to install FFmpeg on your server and write extraction scripts. That works until you need it in production. FFmpeg can extract a single frame from any video using two fla
This section is the map for the rest of the book. The five stages introduced in the 1.1 chapter overview (parse, analyze/rewrite, plan, portal, execute) are traced here through the actual code: which functions implement each stage, and in what order they get called. The mechanics of each of the five stages are unpacked in later chapters. Here, only the skeleton matters: how a backend starts up, ho
A practical look at using tower as the middleware layer for Rust AWS Lambda functions, with examples that build up to a DynamoDB-backed per-IP rate limiter. It covers Service, Layer, stack ordering, short-circuiting, boxed async futures, and testing middleware without deploying a Lambda. Comments