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Yeah, hard disagree on that one, based on recent surveys, 80-90% of developers globally use IDEs over CLIs for their day-to-day work. I was pretty worried about Cursor's business u…

DevCycle | Senior/Staff Full Stack | Full-time | Toronto (Hybrid / Remote) | $150k - $180k | https://devcycle.com We are looking for a Senior-level engineer to help us build out an…

Also, once you are on Enterprise, they will not bug/charge you for contracted overages very often (like once a year) and will forgive significant overages if you resolve them quick…

Pete is a great guy, also on the OpenFeature governance board :)

Actually, M4 is reportedly on a more cost-efficient TSMC N3E node, where Apple was apparently the only customer on the more expensive TSMC N3B node; I'd expect Apple to move away f…

Owner of the purposefully controversial opinion here :) Looks like its proven to be very controversial, which was the stated goal of the podcast segment :) For context, I had just …

Happy to provide more details on this. In most cases, our server SDKs use a common WASM library to make all user bucketing and segmentation decisions locally. We have been impresse…

We certainly see workflows where defining everything as code can be powerful. As we've been chatting about this internally today, we have ideas of how you could define all your fea…

You can use a git-based workflow for feature flags, that's likely how most teams will start using flags in their code with environment variables and infrastructure state. However, …

Really interesting take on your experience with experimentation / feature flags and wanting it to be more stateful in code. I assume that follows the more Terraform-like infrastruc…

(DevCycle Co-Founder & CTO here) The truth of the Feature Flagging market is the vast majority of engineering teams aren't using a third-party tool for Feature Flagging. Most teams…

AWS Spot instance prices are going wild: https://twitter.com/jonathannorris/status/164072721401353011...

But Stocks and Currencies aren't technically a digital good, they are partial ownership of a company or a hard currency. A NFT is exactly the definition of a digital only good, see…

We are finding that Next.js + Nest.JS to be a really strong combo so far.

Roku and Google (Chromecast) have always been subsidizing their hardware. Their business is: selling your data, showing you ads, and selling you subscriptions, it was a race to the…

I get all the doom and gloom about this announcement, but it's exactly what I would be doing if I ran Stadia. Don't waste money trying to build first-party games when you don't hav…

This seems like a larger system outage, we are seeing issues with Kinesis and Cloudwatch.

We've been working with an amazing group of Doctors and Volunteers for the past week to prototype and produce a flat-packable plastic box to protect medical workers while intubatin…

Yea it's bad, Alberta has been trying and failing to diversify their economy for 50 years: https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/after-...

A lot more of those things work than you might expect. I was able to get a very large node app working on their ARM instances very quickly... Docker support is also there from as f…

The problem he is describing is solved with a Mono-repo, not a Monolith. We've seen great success with a Mono-repo that enables the sharing of code across Micro-services, and enfor…

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