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Fly.ioFly.io

A love letter to React

The blogpost discusses the impact of React on the frontend and backend world, focusing on its reactive component system, colocating markup in the app code, and the use of HTML-aware components as extensible building blocks.

11/2/2022
Two SigmaTwo Sigma

On the Road: Meet Our Engineers at Upcoming Tech Conferences

Meet our engineers at upcoming tech conferences

11/1/2022
DoorDashDoorDash

How to Boost Code Coverage with Functional Testing

Introducing a functional testing approach that helps catch and reproduce bugs, reduces debugging time, and boosts code coverage without manual setup.

11/1/2022
Fly.ioFly.io

Logbook: October 21 to 28, 2022

This blogpost summarizes the changes and updates at Fly.io for the week of October 21 to 28, 2022, including improvements to Postgres docs, a PSA about Fly Postgres not being fully managed, integrating the Elastic Stack into a Laravel app, shutting down an idle Phoenix app, an explanation of Fly Apps v1 and v2, and colorblind-friendly dashboard improvements.

10/31/2022
Ink and SwitchInk and Switch

Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software

Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications

10/31/2022
The New York TimesThe New York Times

How We Recreated the Dixie Wildfire’s Plume from Radar and Satellite Data

Recreating the Dixie Wildfire’s plume using radar and satellite data, a team of engineers and wildfire experts visualized how fires create their own weather patterns.

10/28/2022
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Bar Raiser Interview

Changing the interview process during remote working to improve recruiting

10/25/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Digital transformation with Google Cloud

Exploring AI projects in document understanding, wind energy, and AlphaFold in partnership with Google Cloud.

10/20/2022
OpenAIOpenAI

Scaling laws for reward model overoptimization

Exploring scaling laws in reward model overoptimization

10/19/2022
OpenAIOpenAI

Scaling laws for reward model overoptimization

Understanding the scaling laws involved in overoptimization of reward models.

10/19/2022
DoorDash MLDoorDash ML

Augmenting Fuzzy Matching with Human Review to Maximize Precision and Recall

Using human review in combination with a classification model to improve precision and recall in fuzzy matching

10/18/2022
SoundCloudSoundCloud

What's New with SoundCloud, October 2022

Updates to the SoundCloud iOS and Android apps to improve user experience based on user feedback.

10/17/2022