In Q3 2024, our 12-person platform team slashed log ingestion spend by 35% in 90 days, moving from a brittle Elasticsearch-based pipeline to a tuned Vector 0.30 and Loki 3.0 stack—without losing a single log or breaking our 99.95% SLA. GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay (279 points) Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym (144 points) Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test (15
We Cut Compliance Costs by 40% Using Pulumi 3.140 and Chef 18 for Multi-Cloud AWS and GCP Modern multi-cloud environments offer unmatched flexibility, but they also introduce complex compliance challenges. For our team managing hybrid infrastructure across AWS and GCP, manual policy enforcement and fragmented tooling were driving up compliance costs by 22% year-over-year. By integrating Pulumi 3
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In Q3 2024, our 12-person platform engineering team reduced confirmed security incidents by 41.7% (from 72 to 42 per quarter) after rolling out Trivy 0.50 for pre-deployment scanning and Falco 0.40 for runtime detection across 142 production microservices. We didn’t rewrite our CI/CD pipeline, we didn’t hire a dedicated security team, and we didn’t spend a dime on enterprise security tools. Here’s
A some time ago I shipped a desktop app to generate LLM fine-tuning datasets. It worked: my Qwen2.5-Coder-7B fine-tune jumped from 55.5% → 72.3% on HumanEval. Whole pipeline ran on OpenRouter — pick a model, click Generate, get JSONL. v1.0.3-beta ships multi-provider LLM support — Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, or any custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint, plus the original OpenRouter. Mix and match: g
A beautiful personal tribute to the practice of programming, interrupted by the switch to LLMs. Comments
Most of my team got laid off because "AI can do their jobs now." I'm probably the last one standing. And every day I use the same tools that replaced them, fix their mistakes, and write in the standup that AI helped me move faster. Nobody was being honest about this. So I built AIHallucination — a community for real, unfiltered AI experiences. The fails, the wins, the absurd outputs, the expectati