tech/webdev magazine

April 27, 2023

Jira Anti-Patterns

Thursday, April 27, 2023 Teklinks

If you ask people to come up with popular attributes for “Agile” or “agility,” Scrum and Jira will likely be among the top ten featured. Moreover, in any discussion about the topic, someone will mention that using Scrum running on top of Jira does not make an organization agile.

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Why Grafana Needs OpenTelemetry

Thursday, April 27, 2023 Teklinks

Grafana is often considered to be the hands-down most popular observability platform for data visualization. OpenTelemetry has emerged as a key open source component to lend compatibility among the different observability platforms.

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April 26, 2023

Socket Supply wants to replace the cloud with peer-to-peer apps

Wednesday, April 26, 2023 Teklinks

Socket Supply Co. is launching Socket Runtime, an open-source runtime that aims to replace cloud datacenters and servers with peer-to-peer apps. It sounds like something the character Richard Hendriks would tout in HBO’s Silicon Valley show — I just watched its full six seasons. And hopefully this turns out better than Pied Piper, though it seems like Socket Supply is no less ambitious as a startup. It also sounds like the blather around Web3, but it’s not.

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Exploring The Potential Of Web Workers For Multithreading On The Web

Wednesday, April 26, 2023 Teklinks

Multithreading is an important technique used in modern software development to enhance the performance and responsiveness of applications. However, it’s not a common practice on the web due to the single-threaded nature of JavaScript. To overcome this limitation, Web Workers were introduced as a way to enable this technique in web applications.

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Custom Training of Large Language Models (LLMs): A Detailed Guide With Code Samples

Wednesday, April 26, 2023 Teklinks

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 have gained significant attention due to their incredible capabilities in natural language understanding and generation. However, to tailor an LLM to specific tasks or domains, custom training is necessary. This article offers a detailed, step-by-step guide on custom training LLMs, complete with code samples and examples.

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April 24, 2023

Why You Don't Need Signals in React

Monday, April 24, 2023 Teklinks

In the world of web frontend development, signals have become a popular topic. At their core, signals are used to represent changes in state over time. Some developers have discussed the potential of using signals in conjunction with React.

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