I first played with GPT-2 back in 2019, when OpenAI released the 1558M parameter model and the whole NLP world lost its mind. I ran it in a Colab notebook, typed in a prompt about Montevideo, and watched it hallucinate streets that don't exist. It was messy, it
Every day, millions of developers run git add, git commit, and git push without a second thought. But have you ever wondered what actually happens inside the .git directory? Understanding Git's internals isn't just academic curiosity — it makes you a more effective developer, helps you recover
Every production system eventually faces the same uncomfortable truth: things fail. Networks partition, services crash, databases timeout, and disk space runs out at 3 AM. The difference between a system that survives these events and one that doesn't comes down to one word: resilience. Why Resilience Matters Imagine
When I first heard about "cloud computing" I thought it was just marketing nonsense. Servers in someone else's building, accessible over the internet — how is that different from hosting? Well, it turns out there's a bit more to it, and after years of working
JavaScript has become one of the most widely used programming languages, powering applications across various domains. With the advent of cloud computing, developers now have a multitude of options for deploying JavaScript applications in the cloud. In this article, we will explore different deployment options and popular cloud providers for
Cloud-native development has revolutionized the way we build and deploy applications, enabling scalability, resilience, and flexibility. As JavaScript continues to dominate the web development landscape, it's essential to understand and apply cloud-native best practices to JavaScript applications. In this article, we will explore some of the key practices
I went through a serverless phase a while back. You know how it is — you read a few blog posts, watch a conference talk, and suddenly you want to put everything in Lambda functions. I'm here to tell you that's a bad idea, but also that
I've been building web applications with JavaScript for more than 10 years now, and at some point you realise that writing the code is only half the battle. The other half is making sure the thing doesn't fall over when actual people start using it. At
Docker compose is awesome, especially if you need to spin up your local development environment. the following is the docker-compose I use at home. version: '2.1' services: zoo1: image: zookeeper:3.4.9 restart: unless-stopped hostname: zoo1 ports: - "2181:2181" environment: ZOO_MY_ID:
Here is a list of some docker snippets that I use daily. Create a tagged image from Dockerfile docker build -t tag_name /path/to/ Run a docker image in detached mode docker run -p local_port:remote_port -d tag_name Remove stopped containers docker rm $(docker ps -a