If your cache only speeds up a few endpoints, your cache strategy is too narrow. That model doesn’t scale. It creates stale data, extra complexity, and more load on your database than you think. Modern systems treat cache differently. It’s seen as a real-time data layer that’s structured, queryable, and always in sync with source … Read More “How Datadog Redefined Data Replication” »
The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Hit reply and share it with me. Today, we cover: Is the FDE role becoming less desirable? Job postings for Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) have surged, but many professionals don’t want the role because … Read More “Is the FDE role becoming less desirable?” »
These days, it seems like every tech company and their corporate parent is looking to squeeze AI tools and features into their products, whether they’re wanted or not. So when files with names and functions referencing a “SteamGPT” appeared in a recent Steam client update, Valve watchers took quick notice. From the outside, it’s hard … Read More “What leaked “SteamGPT” files could mean for the PC gaming platform’s use of AI” »
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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Economist: Don’t worry about AI-driven unemployment, because people like paying for the ‘human touch’:…Even when you have the technology to automate something, you might still pick a human…Adam Ozimek, … Read More “Timing superintelligence; AIs solve frontier math proofs; a new ML research benchmark” »
Finding a radula, the chitinous, toothed, conveyor-belt-like tongue used by mollusks to scrape food, was the definitive proof that Pohlsepia was indeed a mollusk. A more precise answer came in the form of the teeth. The synchrotron scan was sharp enough to let researchers count the tiny, individual tooth impressions across the radula’s transverse rows. … Read More “Oldest octopus fossil found to not be an octopus” »
YouTube is raising subscription prices for YouTube Premium and YouTube Music in the U.S., the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday. The YouTube Premium individual plan is increasing from $13.99 to $15.99 per month, while the family plan is increasing from $22.99 to $26.99 per month. YouTube Premium Lite, which offers ad-free viewing for most … Read More “YouTube Premium and YouTube Music are getting more expensive” »
Pay with your wallet or your attention Unlike with most streaming services, those who can’t stomach YouTube’s latest price increase have an option. Free users can browse and stream as many YouTube videos as they want, but they’ll have to contend with ads. After earning more than $40 billion in ad revenue in 2025, the … Read More “YouTube increases Premium price again, says 90-second unskippable ads are a bug” »
A feature is deployed, and the database queries run well. The team is happy with the results. However, six months later, the main table has grown from 50,000 rows to 5 million, and the same query now takes eight seconds. Then, someone adds an index, and read latency drops to milliseconds, which seems like a … Read More “Database Performance Strategies and Their Hidden Costs” »
It was at Uber that I met one of the single best engineers I’ve had the fortune to work with; let’s call them “Sam” for this article. As engineers, we briefly worked together, and when I became a manager, Sam’s name regularly came up during performance calibrations as being among the company’s top 10% engineers. … Read More ““How to be a 10x engineer” – interview with a standout dev” »
