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How Relational Databases Work. This post talks about how indexes and transactions work on the inside of relational databases. https://t.co/ffTuHF7SgL

[Mahdi Yusuf @myusuf3]

At what point do we stop calling them javascript vulnerabilities and start calling javascript itself a feature-rich remote code execution platform.

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The Speed Tax.

https://t.co/IISea9JJEk

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As many of you know every week we send out newsletter and each one has a new image the top each week, this takes a bit of time to design and create with @LumaLabsAI. I am about to produce this in the fraction of the time with tons of artistic control.

https://t.co/opdyYRE87o

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Uni-1 feels like a shift from prompting to actually collaborating.

Multimodal + native pixel generation opens up a lot creatively and allows for fast iteration and storytelling accurately.

Curious what people build 👀 https://t.co/opdyYRE87o

[Luma @LumaLabsAI]

Uni-1 is here! A new kind of model that thinks and generates pixels simultaneously. Less artificial. More intelligent.

[Mahdi Yusuf @myusuf3]

America outsourced manufacturing, then the skills to design what gets manufactured. Software is next.

https://t.co/ZtjdwzixkS

[Mahdi Yusuf @myusuf3]

I built more with AI agents in two months than the previous year. I used almost none of it. The real productivity gain isn't building—it's using.

https://t.co/30n2LXjXzL

[Mahdi Yusuf @myusuf3]

Why your coding agent keeps undoing your architecture
https://t.co/lzZXQqcB07

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Wrote something about the importance of the code generation and library use in the context of agents.

https://t.co/dfUE5lj4nY

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Building GenAI infra isn’t theory—it’s hard-won experience.

Learn from 60+ engineers who’ve scaled LLMs, vector stores & RAG pipelines at QCon SF 2025.

What worked. What failed. What to avoid.

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Architecture Notes Weekly: Trio out now!

Why pgvector might not cut it in production
How bloom filters fail at scale
Why LLMs can’t replace hands-on learning
Plus: slashing cloud costs and Postgres as a lakehouse system

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[Architecture Notes @arcnotes]

Building GenAI infra isn’t theory—it’s hard-won experience.

Learn from 60+ engineers who’ve scaled LLMs, vector stores & RAG pipelines at QCon SF 2025.

What worked. What failed. What to avoid.

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Architecture Notes Weekly: Generator out now!

How AWS serves 1 petabyte per second on old hard drives

The 14-hour outage that killed Slack, Signal, and Premier League

Building a key-value database from scratch with LSM trees

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Methodologies

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Goodbye, Fingerspitzengefühl? https://t.co/9wmQuUQKNd

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