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The 10 best software podcast episodes I ever heard

Highly recommended listens from a podcast addict.

Larval stage support engineering: great at what doesn’t scale

The three core mantras of early support engineering success.

"A Foundational Result in Machine Learning"

Diving into single-layer perceptrons and basic information theory.

Gray’s ‘5 minute rule’ in the cloud era

If an item is accessed frequently enough, it should be main memory resident. For 1987 technology, “frequently enough” means about every five minutes.

Aussie engineers, get to The States!

The E3 is for you and me.

More Than DNS: The 14 hour AWS us-east-1 outage

A thorough review of a major cloud outage.

You should have private evals

Everybody should have a personal set of test prompts to try on LLMs.

The First LLM

Jeremy Howard and Sebastian Ruder created the first LLM.

Zen of Slack, Part 2: Against DMs

If it's not private, it goes in a channel.

Me and Brendan Gregg vs. the 1 billion row challenge: a worklog (Part 1)

Is one book and a can-do attitude all you need to write fast code?

Why does an NVIDIA H100 80GB card offer 85.52 GB?

Digging into the memory capacity of NVIDIA GPUs.

Memory Snapshots: Checkpoint/Restore for Sub-second Startup

Andrew Morton tried to warn us, but we’ve sided with the Russians and gone a bit mad.

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