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Development

How to Use Multiple GitHub Accounts

Git is a popular tool for version control in software development. It is not uncommon to use multiple Git accounts. Correctly configuring and switching Git accounts is challenging. In this article, we show what Git provides for account configuration, its limitations, and the solution to switch accounts automatically based on a project parent directory location.

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Architecture & Design

Polyglot Programming with WebAssembly: A Practical Approach

WebAssembly has expanded its scope from browsers to other domains like cloud and edge computing. It uses the WebAssembly Component Model (WCM) to enable seamless interaction between libraries from different programming languages, such as Rust, Python, and JavaScript, promoting a true polyglot programming environment.

AI, ML & Data Engineering

Modern Compute Stack for Scaling Large AI/ML/LLM Workloads

Jules Damji discusses which infrastructure should be used for distributed fine-tuning and training, how to scale ML workloads, how to accommodate large models, and how CPUs and GPUs can be utilized.

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Culture & Methods

Developer Experience Influenced by Open Source Culture

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Kyle Carberry about the importance of developer experience and how it is changing with the rise of tools like Copilot.

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DevOps

Global Capacity Management through Strategic Demand Allocation

Ranjith Kumar discusses abstractions and guarantees presented to service owners with global capacity, the design and implementation for managing workloads across 10s of regions, categorizing & modeling different demands, and achieving global capacity management by shifting demand across different regions.