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"SELECT to Ship: MariaDB for Application Developers" is now available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle editions (both with a 20% discount and free for Kindle+ members). Keep learning and keep shipping!
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ALT Amazon page for the book "SELECT to Ship: MariaDB for Application Developers" by Alejandro Duarte. Available in paperback and Kindle editions.
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🚨 Nightmare day for cybersecurity
Multiple major security incidents, active exploits, supply chain compromises...
If you run production systems, start patching NOW.
PHP: Two critical unauthenticated RCEs. Attackers already exploiting them. Patch NOW
LiteLLM: v1.107.0 on PyPI and Docker is BACKDOORED. Steals cloud, SSH, and AI credentials. Pin 1.106.2. Rotate secrets.
eMudhra: A certificate authority's keys were crackable. Update your browsers, systems, and trust stores.
Node.js / Next.js / React: Security releases for Brotli RCE, TLS bypasses, and TWO critical Next.js RCEs.
TiDB Cloud: PingCAP breached through stolen credentials. Customer information and other sensitive data exfiltrated. Read the attacker's release, fun stuff.
Plex2Shell: Weaponized within HOURS of the PoC. Attackers already deploying cryptominers and proxy backdoors.
BeyondTrust / Ivanti: Actively exploited zero-days added to CISA's KEV catalog. BeyondTrust attacks linked to a China-nexus campaign.
And that's not even the full list.
Patch. Audit. Rotate. NOW.
What studying neural networks in machine learning looks like. Partial derivatives for backpropagation in gradient descent.
#ml #MachineLearning
Use it or lose it. I got back to video production and live coding. It feels great! This time C and Machine Learning.
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I like to think about my book "SELECT to Ship" as a tiny contribution to the software industry and application developers in particular. Link in 🧵👇
While studying database systems, I found that not many books are tailored to app developers but DBAs and sysadmins. That's why I decided to write "SELECT to Ship". A book to give developers the tools they actually need when creating applications.
👉 selecttoship.com
Please make sure you have a solid foundation on databases and SQL. If are using or planning to use MariaDB and you want a fun-to-read book that is not reference-like, consider my book or any of the books from authors like D. Bartholomew and F. Razzoli.
👉 selecttoship.com
SQL is looking strong in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey. Not a surprise since data powers decision-making systems big and small, from ad-hoc bespoke ML Jupyter notebooks to frontier AI models running on distributed HPC hardware.
A bunch of robots destroyed in #Finland by melting 🔥
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A name for someone who just copy-pastes AI output to people's questions:
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😍 Cover design ready! Also, #MariaDB for #Developers is now SELECT to Ship. Going to the printers soon. Check it out!
👉selecttoship.com
ALT Cover for the book "SELECT to Ship" by Alejandro Duarte.
Actual developer productivity gains from AI are around 13% not 2x, not 5x, not 10x.
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"Several vulnerabilities" in the Linux kernel lwn.net/Articles/1097401/
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We are about 3 months away from someone coming clean with this story:
We spent $4m in tokens to port our 2.7m LoC enterprise Java application to Rust.
- P99 performance increased by 0.3%
- RAM usage decreased by 2%
- Full compile times increased by 437x and required 279GB of disk.
- Incremental compile times increased by 9853x and required 279GB of disk.
- Average developer salary increased by 24%
- No one understands the code
- We are super hip again!!
I wonder if #OpenSource contributions will eventually become #AI prompts rather than actual code 🤔