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Article: Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System

InfoQ

Adopting SMR technology and erasure codes, the system has extremely high durability guarantees but is cheaper than operating in the cloud. A horizontally scalable exabyte-scale blob storage system which operates out of multiple regions, Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data. By Facundo Agriel

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Designing Better Links For Websites And Emails: A Guideline

Smashing Magazine

Designing Better Links For Websites And Emails: A Guideline. Designing Better Links For Websites And Emails: A Guideline. In this article, I’ll explain popular wording and formatting mistakes and will show more accessible and informative alternatives. What is hidden behind it: a page or file, an article or web form?

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The Quality of Auto-Generated Code

O'Reilly

Kevlin Henney and I were riffing on some ideas about GitHub Copilot , the tool for automatically generating code base on GPT-3’s language model, trained on the body of code that’s in GitHub. This article poses some questions and (perhaps) some answers, without trying to present any conclusions. Things like that.

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Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition)

Smashing Magazine

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

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Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers

Smashing Magazine

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That’s why you need a good UI/UX designer. Nataliya Sambir. And vice versa.

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AI Prowess: Harnessing Docker for Streamlined Deployment and Scalability of Machine Learning Applications

DZone

This article proposes a technique using Docker, an open-source platform designed to automate application deployment, scaling, and management, as a solution to these challenges. The proposed methodology encapsulates the ML models and their environment into a standardized Docker container unit.

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domain-driven design (ddd) vs Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

Strategic Tech

Practically everybody is doing domain-driven design in some form. It was before my time, but my understanding is that reason Eric Evans wrote the Domain-Driven Design (DDD) book in the early 2000s was to encourage better domain-driven design (ddd) practices in that era. What is domain-driven design (ddd)?

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