Viral Patel

Tech Architect 👨‍💻 Life long learner 🔭
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[Viral Patel @viralpatelnet]

Compilers are a different game. They work in a world where both source and destination are deterministic. The pure function nature of this means if you understand the left side the right side will never surprise you.

LLMs on the other hand.. not sure 😊

[solst/ICE of Astarte @IceSolst]

Interesting article on treating agent output like compiler output (and why)

https://t.co/UHV1V1PzN1

[Viral Patel @viralpatelnet]

@elbruno Issue with this chart though is we don't know the scale. What's the number on the left? Without which it's just a clever cropping from a real chart that may not show the exponential curve

[Viral Patel @viralpatelnet]

@karpathy Indeed RSS is the best way to keep up with tech companies engineering blogs. Tons of useful information here with zero slop

[Viral Patel @viralpatelnet]

@championswimmer @rakyll The problem of legacy remained due to the fact that migration was hard. Agentic AI is changing this. Having a fleet of background agents that are always progressing your stack means we don't have to go through painful migrations ever again. Keeping the stack evergreen.

[Viral Patel @viralpatelnet]

@springrod @springboot @java @sivalabs Hi Rod, Any good reference to use Embabel with Bedrock without using openai or Anthropic keys? I tried a sample from James's GitHub but didn't have much success

[Viral Patel @viralpatelnet]

@kentcdodds

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[Viral Patel @viralpatelnet]

@starbuxman Single Backstage instance in Prod (with multiple pods) with single Catalog for all microservices.

The Backstage connects to multiple k8s clusters and shows the state of services running across different clusters. This way we have a single view across all clusters.

[Viral Patel @viralpatelnet]

Americans will do anything to avoid the Metric System 🤦
https://t.co/rANkzJVfQ3

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

BREAKING 🚨: An asteroid the size of about 69 American alligators will pass by Earth on Tuesday

via NASA asteroid tracker

[Viral Patel @viralpatelnet]

@gunnarmorling 💯 spot on. Enums in responses are difficult to handle. Especially for languages such as Java where they are closed by design. One way to handle this is using `x-extebsible-enum` custom attribute how Zalando has defined here https://t.co/lcqaZiNYn1

[Viral Patel @viralpatelnet]

If you are managing simple Apps, MRSK seems like a great option to manage deployment. Simple, elegant and serves the purpose ✨

[Viral Patel @viralpatelnet]

@leeerob @housecor @nextjs Agree 💯
NextJS team has done a great job making sure 13 is compatible with 12. It's just /app makes things a bit awkward for v12 Prod apps. E.g. considering template/layout reusability between pages and apps.

[Viral Patel @viralpatelnet]

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[Sam Newman @samnewman]

Blaming Jira for your shitty software development process is like blaming oxygen for forest fires.

[Jake Williams @MalwareJake]

Technical debt illustrated...

[Viral Patel @viralpatelnet]

Kubernetes is great. Everyone loves it and a lot uses it. However it doesn't harm sometime to step back and see if you really need it.

As always a great post from @dhh

https://t.co/gEPXQqIuh9

[Viral Patel @viralpatelnet]

SQLite has been getting a lot of traction recently.

Litestream - Syncs SQLite to another file or S3.

https://t.co/HZWmniGvDO

[Viral Patel @viralpatelnet]

Well, who needs REST/GraphQL APIs when you can just ship the database and run it in browser 🤷‍♂️

SQLite Wasm in the browser backed by the Origin Private File System https://t.co/Pk7z64Lk4c

[Abraham Marín-Pérez @AbrahamMarin]

Many people disregard E2E tests because "test environments are notoriously unstable". But I'll ask you: if you can't create a stable test environment, what makes you think you can create a stable production environment?