Tech Blogs Digest 10.11 - 16.11
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This week
🏗️ Architecture - Production-grade Kafka setup, a cache buster trap, and the journey from an Excel report to a data platform
🤖 LLMs in production - LLM agent memory, dynamic prefix bucketing, and reducing token consumption by 87%
📊 Data science - Automating electoral districting, tracking responses to changes at Netflix, and predicting the owner of a medieval manuscript
💻 AI-assisted coding - Detecting search in Windows kernel mode drivers, and using generative AI coding assistants
⚙️ DevOps - A centralized configuration layer using ConfigHub
👥 Engineering management - A documentation writing technique
🛡️ Security - Analyzing a .NET loader infection and the PureLog Stealer from an LNK file
🐹 Go - Custom memory allocators
🟩 Node.js - Analyzing application runtime behavior to investigate issues
🏗️ ARCHITECTURE
Beyond Kafka 101: Mastering Consistency, Throughput & Fault Tolerance in Production — Chapter one | 14 min read
Uncover why a standard Apache Kafka setup falters under real-world load and the three critical patterns that turn it production-ready
