Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

October 31, 2024

How to profile a performance issue using Spring Boot profiling tools
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A quick tour of the available tools to profile Spring Boot applications.

Vector Databases Are the Wrong Abstraction
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I definitely like the approach of having vectorisation in the RDBMS directly. This is one less moving part, less complexity at the application level to synchronize everything together. In this case it's a Postgres extension.

On Crafting Painterly Shaders
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Very nice deep dive into a post-processing shader to create a painted scene effect.

Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone

Time management and timezones are definitely complicated. In a way it's culture colliding with computers and localisation... it can't be simple.

Lessons learned from a successful Rust rewrite

This is a good view of what you're getting into with the "rewrite it in Rust" knee-jerk reaction.

the death of the architect
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Good explanation on how the agile movement scaled down about design over time in its literature. It's probably its biggest failure. The good thing is that the pendulum is starting to swing in the other direction a bit (that's probably why Beck is now working on a book series on software design).