Nicolay Gerold

The what and why of Dagster#

Welcome to Dagster! If you’re here, you probably have questions about data, orchestration, Dagster, and how everything fits together.

Let’s start with the basics: What’s an orchestrator?

Orchestrators allow you to automatically execute a series of steps and track the results. They not only enable you and your team to see... See more

The choice of programming language is almost always irrelevant to an organization's commercial success. End-users don’t likely care about your programming language choice. You need to upskill your business sense if you’re trying to differentiate your product or service based on the underlying programming language or tech stack.

Menlo Ventures released a report on ‘The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise’ and found that adoption is trailing the hype. Details below:

Generative AI still represents less than 1% of cloud spend by surveyed enterprises, including just an 8% increase in 2023.

Safety and ROI continue to be prime concerns, and the tangible advantages of being... See more

Coding is a creative pursuit! Creativity thrives under constraints. Adding the “constraint” of a clear problem to solve allows engineers the freedom to explore and create a solution in the way they see fit.

The best engineers I know are product-minded: thinking about solving the problem for humans first and foremost, which leads to the next point.

What's New (October, 2023)

We are pleased to announce that this repository (formerly known as Microsoft Recommenders, https://github.com/microsoft/recommenders), has joined the Linux Foundation of AI and Data (LF AI & Data)! The new organization, recommenders-team , reflects this change.

We hope this move makes it easy for anyone to contribute! Our... See more

Production Cloud: We've built a cloud offering for browser extensions called Itero. Check it out if you want instant beta testing and more awesome features.

Plasmo Framework

The Plasmo Framework is a battery-packed browser extension SDK made by hackers for hackers. Build your product and stop worrying about config files and the odd peculiarities of... See more

A thread pool is a collection of pre-initialized threads that can be used to execute tasks. Instead of starting a new thread for each task (which can be resource-intensive), a thread from this pool is reused to perform the task. This approach is beneficial for handling multiple operations in parallel, especially when these operations are blocking... See more

What is Pingora

Pingora is a Rust framework to build fast, reliable and programmable networked systems.

Pingora is battle tested as it has been serving more than 40 million Internet requests per second for more than a few years.