A few weeks back, we released pg_embedding, a new extension for Postgres and LangChain which introduced Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) indexes for vector similarity search. This new indexing method resulted in 20x faster queries at a 99% accuracy compared to traditional IVFFlat indexing....

Increase performance in pgvector by using embedding vectors with fewer dimensions

As you may know, this summer I am leading the design of the inaugural State of HTML survey. Naturally, I am also exploring ways to improve both survey UX, as well as all questions. Shaine Madala, a data scientist working on the survey design team proposed using numerical inputs instead of brackets f...

Low-code and no-code approaches emphasize visual development tools and prebuilt components to streamline development.

User presence is an important feature to include when building an engaging, real-time virtual experience.

Low-code and no-code approaches emphasize visual development tools and prebuilt components to streamline development.

User presence is an important feature to include when building an engaging, real-time virtual experience.

Hacker Summer Camp, as it is colloquially known, is three security conferences that are all next week in Las Vegas. The three conferences that makeup Security Summer Camp are: While preparing for these conferences, I dug through their schedules and picked out the talks I was most interested in catch...

For anyone that has been paying attention, the 30M and now 46M funding rounds for Neon seems like an awful lot of money for a two year old company of just over 50 people. Funding is great and we are great believers in “raise it when you can not when you have to” but as […]

Our Frontend Feud game show series forces me to survey JS Party listeners frequently to get their thoughts on software, development, life, and software development life. Each question has to be accompanied by an <input type=text> because providing choices ruins the entire point of the game. So, befo...

Launch Week 8 is coming - but we still shipped some goodies during July

As cyber attacks have become ever more sophisticated, the means of protecting against cyber attacks have had to become more stringent. With zero trust security, the model has changed from “trust but verify” to “never trust, always verify.”  Joining D2iQ VP of Product Dan Ciruli for an in-depth discu...

Learn how to implement authentication and file upload in a React Native app.

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We are pleased to announce the results of the migration of the shared data pipeline service from Python 2 to Python 3.

SNS is a fully managed messaging service that enables developers to send notifications to various endpoints or distributed systems

We are pleased to announce the results of the migration of the shared data pipeline service from Python 2 to Python 3.

SNS is a fully managed messaging service that enables developers to send notifications to various endpoints or distributed systems

In a psychologically safe working environment, people feel included and respected, and able to share their ideas, questions or concerns without fearing repercussions for any mistakes or failures.  The post Creating a Culture of Psychological Safety in Engineering Teams appeared first on Novoda.

Large Screen Devices - The New Frontier SoundCloud large screen optimized Recently, the Android team at SoundCloud took on a project to…

This blog post is a response to Mark Dominus’ “The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace”.I’ve been working on a shell for Unix-like systems called rc, which draws heavily from the Plan 9 shell of the same name. When I saw Mark’s post about the perils of whitespace in POSIX shells (or derived ...

This blog post is a response to Mark Dominus’ “The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace”. I’ve been working on a shell for Unix-like systems called rc, which draws heavily from the Plan 9 shell of the same name. When I saw Mark’s post about the perils of whitespace in POSIX shells (or derived...

Large Screen Devices - The New Frontier SoundCloud large screen optimized Recently, the Android team at SoundCloud took on a project to…

Insights is a valuable tool for understanding your data, but analyzing the data and deciding what actions to take can be harder, which is where “Analyze with AI” can help, allowing you to ask questions about your data in plain English.

Insights is a valuable tool for understanding your data, but analyzing the data and deciding what actions to take can be harder, which is where “Analyze with AI” can help, allowing you to ask questions about your data in plain English.

Exploring everything you need to consider when it comes to the benefits and disadvantages of serverless computing.

Exploring everything you need to consider when it comes to the benefits and disadvantages of serverless computing.