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Cloudflare is a cloud provider used by almost 20% of all websites. Developers new to Cloudflare can get started here.

Cloudflare recently launched Workers AI, an open, pay-as-you-go AI inference-as-a-service platform that lets developers run machine learning models on the Cloudflare network from their own code. Developers can get started here.

On a related note, read Ryan’s article exploring the infrastructure and code behind edge functions or check out his conversation with Vercel CTO Malte Ubl.

Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is a strategy that helps address both LLM hallucinations and out-of-date training data.

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Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Bamieh, whose answer to What does the function call app.use(cors()) do? earned them a Lifeboat badge.

Sana automates user enrollment, training reminders, and other manual/admin tasks associated with onboarding and learning. Sana AI, their AI assistant, is trained on a company’s data so employees can self-serve the knowledge they need.

On a related note, listen to our interview with Gašper Beguš, director of the Berkeley Speech and Computation Lab, about his research into how LLMs and humans acquire language.

You can also read about how Stack Overflow implemented semantic search.

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Stack Overflow user Donagh Hatton received a well-earned Lifeboat badge with their answer to Why is StringBuilder much faster than String?.

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Episode notes:

Chronosphere is introducing Lens, a cloud-native observability tool to view data flows between services. 

At Uber, Rob created M3, an open-source metrics engine compatible with Prometheus.  

Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner, ralf htp, for their answer to How to read an image in Python OpenCV. 

If you want to meet Rob and the Chronosphere team, they’ll be at AWS re:Invent  from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1.

ICYMI, listen to part one of this conversation.

Craig is the cofounder and CEO of Stacklok, which helps developers and open-source communities build safer software, secure the supply chain, and choose safer dependencies. Stacklok’s free-to-use service, Trusty, employs a statistical analysis of author/repo activity and a package’s source of origin to assess its trustworthiness.

Craig cofounded the Kubernetes project, an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Craig is on LinkedIn.

Stack Overflow user mprivat earned a well-deserved Lifeboat badge by answering Abstract class extending concrete classes.

Stacklok helps developers and open-source communities build safer software, secure the supply chain, and choose safer dependencies. Trusty is their free-to-use service that employs a statistical analysis of author/repo activity and a package’s source of origin to assess its trustworthiness.

Craig cofounded the Kubernetes project, an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

He is also the former VP of Research and Development at VMWare.

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Congrats to Stack Overflow user netcorefan, who earned a Lifeboat badge with their answer to Need a workaround to access ReadOnlySpan inside a function that returns an IEnumerable.

Sleuth helps engineering teams systematically improve efficiency by tracking speed and release quality, preventing slowdowns and bottlenecks, and removing toil and unnecessary friction. Try it for free or see how teams are using Sleuth. Interested in the automations they offer for teams, check out their public marketplace.

Dylan was an original architect on JIRA, so he’s not exactly new to issue- and project-tracking software.

DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) is a research program that tries to understand what drives successful software delivery and operations performance. 

According to Dylan, one thing the best development teams have in common is their culture of continuous learning.

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Tomasz is a general partner at Theory Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage software companies.

He coauthored the book Winning with Data, a deep dive into how big data has changed business best practices and organizational culture.

Find Tomasz’s writing here.

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In honor of Tomasz’s early career, we’re shouting out Johnny Hujol’s answer to What exactly is a container in J2EE and how does it help?.

Giamir is the tech lead for Stacks, Stack Overflow’s design system.

Svelte is a tool for building web apps. Delve into their docs or, if you’re brand-new to Svelte, start with this interactive tutorial.

More than 90,000 devs responded to our 2023 Developer Survey where Svelte was ranked the second-most admired web framework.  

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Today we’re shouting out a topical question asked by Félix Paradis, who (like 73,000 others) wanted to know How to pass parameters to on:click in Svelte?.

Alex and cofounder/CTO Paul Querna started ConductorOne because they saw that traditional identity governance (IGA) and privileged access management (PAM) needed to be rethought for cloud-forward companies.

Before he cofounded Conductor One, Alev Bovee was a senior director of product management for zero trust and security at Okta.

Read Ben’s article about how Computers are learning to decode the language of our minds.

Would you trade an iris scan for some crypto? Sure, what could go wrong?

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Stack Overflow user Matthew Watson earned a Lifeboat badge for helping more than 32,000 people by answering Checking if an array is null or empty.

Find out why others have joined Shell. 

Wondering what it’s like to be a developer at one of the world’s biggest energy companies? They’re hiring.

Behavior-driven development is a conceptual approach to software development that calls for collaboration and alignment between developers, testers, and domain experts.

One of the new technologies James and Tristan helped introduce at Shell is Kafka, an open-source distributed event streaming platform. Check out their docs here.

Engineering teams at Shell use Stack Overflow for Teams to capture and share information. Get started for free here.

Congratulations to David Snabel, winner of a Stellar Question badge for How do I see which version of Swift I’m using?.