DevToolsDigest: Issue #324
This week's digest includes news and resources from Baz, CodeYam, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
MySQL At Uber
Uber operates an extensive MySQL fleet, consisting of over 2,300 independent clusters. Building a control plane to manage this fleet at such a massive scale, while ensuring zero downtime and no data loss, is among the most challenging problems in the industry.
Let's Build a Web App for Pinecone
In this post, Raymond Camden takes a look into what it would take to build a "real" application around Pinecone's service by whipping up a quick Flask application. Follow along as he builds a web app that begins with a prompt, runs server-side code to integrate with Pinecone, and renders the results in a web page.
Ordering Files for AI-Assisted Development
Code grammar serves as the GPS of software development. It includes universal language rules and project-specific conventions, such as naming standards, formatting, dependency structures, and file organization. In this deep dive, explore whether optimizing file ordering can help LLMs better understand code diffs.
Industry Research
Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters
As we enter into an era where agents will interact with our products autonomously, and build with our platforms while consuming our content and experiences on the web and beyond, we need to start focusing on AX or “agent experience” — the holistic experience AI agents will have as the user of a product or platform.
Software Development with AI: Isolation and Abstraction
A fundamental reason why AI struggles to navigate software as it becomes more complex is context. If you want to explore other ways to approach complexity without simply relying on larger amounts of information, then we don’t have much of a choice than figure out how to work with less information. We need to be able to isolate specific aspects within a complex environment.
Developer Venture News
Why DeepSeek Sent Nvidia, Other Tech Stocks Tumbling
The AI chatbot from DeepSeek, a Chinese company, rocketed to the top of US app stores over the weekend — and sent US tech shares plummeting Monday morning. The US has been trying to choke off China’s access to cutting-edge AI chips, but DeepSeek claims it’s still managed to develop tech that rivals ChatGPT and its competitors at a fraction of the cost.