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The Difficulty of Assessing AI Models with Ankur Goyal

Evaluations are critical for assessing the quality, performance, and effectiveness of software during development. Common evaluation methods include code reviews and automated testing, and can help identify bugs, ensure compliance with requirements, and measure software reliability. However, evaluating LLMs presents unique challenges due to their complexity, versatility, and potential for unpredictable behavior. Ankur Goyal is

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The Future of Frontend: Insights from Tanner Linsley and TanStack

TanStack is an open-source collection of high-performance libraries for JavaScript and TypeScript applications, primarily focused on state management, data fetching, and table utilities. It includes popular libraries like TanStack Query, TanStack Table, and TanStack Router. These libraries emphasize declarative APIs, optimized performance, and developer-friendly features, and they are increasingly popular for modern frontend development. Tanner

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Corporate Espionage, Postgres, and the Unconventional Lives of Developers Today

Welcome back to SED News, a podcast series from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the latest stories in software engineering, Silicon Valley, and wider tech world. In this episode, Gregor and Sean unpack what’s going with Deel and Rippling, explore why Databricks and Snowflake are making big bets

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Emulating Retro Games on Modern Consoles with Robin Lavallée and Bill Litshauer

Emulating retro games on modern consoles is a growing trend, and allows players to experience classic titles with improved performance, enhanced resolution, and added features like save states and rewinding. However, this process raises many challenging technical questions related to hardware compatibility, performance optimization, rendering, and state management. Implicit Conversions is a company focused on

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CodeRabbit and RAG: Code Review with Harjot Gill

One of the most immediate and high-impact applications of LLMs has been in software development. The models can significantly accelerate code writing, but with that increased velocity comes a greater need for thoughtful, scalable approaches to codereview. Integrating AI into the development workflow requires rethinking how to ensure quality,security, and maintainability at scale. CodeRabbit is

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ByteDance’s Container Networking Stack with Chen Tang

ByteDance is a global technology company operating a wide range of content platforms around the world, and is best known for creating TikTok. The company operates at a massive scale, which naturally presents challenges in ensuring performance and stability across its data centers. It has over a million servers running containerized applications, and this required

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Silicon Valley Has Lost Touch with Everyday People’s Needs

One of the most mortifying things about knowing a lot of techies is listening to them tell me excitedly about some very important discovery that they believe they have made. Recently, I ran into an acquaintance of mine, who began talking my ear off about an amazing discovery he’d made with LLMs. Knowledge, it turns […]

How Amazon’s Alleged Price Fixing Supposedly Increased Prices Everywhere

On Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta revealed the evidence of alleged price-fixing by Amazon. The state filed a request to the Supreme Court in February for a preliminary injunction to stop Amazon’s behavior while the lawsuit it originally filed in 2022 proceeds, and is now making that 16-page document available, “largely unredacted.” It lays […]

Apple Music Encounters Second Outage Within a Fortnight

### Apple Music Encounters Second Disruption in a Week

In the wake of last week’s difficulty, Apple Music is facing issues once more, as indicated by Apple’s System Status page. The most recent disruption was recorded at 2:38 p.m. ET, implying that some users “may be experiencing intermittent issues.”

#### Overview of Recent Disruptions

A week ago, Apple Music underwent a notable outage that commenced at 5:00 p.m. ET on Thursday and continued intermittently until 12:00 p.m. ET on Friday. The current scenario seems to be an extension of these troubles, though reports on Downdetector reveal that the outage appears to be lessening, suggesting a possible return to normal operations.

#### Present Condition

As of now, the origin of the issues remains ambiguous. Users trying to connect to the service may have been uncertain whether the difficulties were linked to their own internet connection or Apple’s system. It appears that the latter is true for many.

Apple Music requires an active subscription, priced at $10.99 per month, along with a one-month free trial for new subscribers.

#### Community Input

Users are invited to express their experiences with Apple Music in the comments. The situation will be observed closely, and updates will be given once Apple addresses the issues or provides additional information.