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
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A hands-on dev review focused on i18n, date/number formatting, and non-ASCII edge cases. Why I Tested TestSprite for Locale Handling Specifically Most AI testing tools get reviewed for their core functionality — does it find bugs, does it write good test code, does it integrate with CI/CD. Those reviews exist. What I couldn't find was a focused review on how TestSprite handles locale-specific edge
Power BI is a powerful business analytics service developed by Microsoft that empowers users to visualise data and share interactive dashboards across their organisation. While Power BI can handle data from various sources, its true potential is unleashed when connected to robust data sources like SQL databases. SQL databases—such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server—are the industry standard for
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