The Daily Index — Thursday, April 4, 2024 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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WHY IS OBSERVABILITY SO EXPENSIVE?

Observability costs are on top of mind for many organizations. This post covers a brief history of modern observability, how the industry arrived at its current observability cost crisis, and a new way of thinking about observability costs and pricing models. Over the past few decades, infrastructure-as-a-service providers and open source have made it easy to produce voluminous amounts of telemetry, while little regard has been given to the cost or storage of the telemetry output, causing a cost crisis in observability tooling. One solution may be to not send any observability data by default.

mattklein123.dev · 11 min

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A FIRST LOOK AT EUROPE’S ALTERNATIVE IPHONE APP STORES

There is currently only one third-party iOS app store live in Europe. Other app stores have been announced and some are in the review process. One reason for the lack of alternative app stores is due to Apple's Core Technology Fee, which requires developers to pay Apple 50 euro cents for every annual app install over one million, with third-party app store developers paying the fee for every first annual install of their app marketplace. Apple has also made installing third-party marketplaces a hassle, requiring around a dozen screen interactions to install each store.

theverge.com · 12 min

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STARTUPS ARE ALL ABOUT TRANSPARENCY

One topic in the startup world is extremely opaque: founders' salaries. This causes founders to make all kinds of mistakes, like paying themselves too early, too late, too little, or too much. Founders don't get rich with their salaries: most of the money comes from IPOs, secondaries, and acquisitions. Being a founder means having to learn to deal with financial uncertainty.

twitter.com · 7 min

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AMAZON CUTS HUNDREDS OF JOBS IN CLOUD COMPUTING UNIT

AWS has seen its sales growth decelerate in recent quarters.

cnbc.com · 2 min

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INTRODUCING JPEGLI: A NEW JPEG CODING LIBRARY

Jpegli is an advanced JPEG coding library that maintains high backward compatibility, enhanced capabilities, and a 35% compression ratio improvement at high quality compression settings.

opensource.googleblog.com · 4 min

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‘HR IS NOT YOUR FRIEND’: WHY FRUSTRATED WORKERS ARE HIRING REPS OF THEIR OWN

Independent human resources consulting firms listen to complaints workers don't feel comfortable sharing with their own employers' HR representatives.

theguardian.com · 9 min

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STABILITY AI’S AUDIO GENERATOR CAN NOW CRANK OUT 3 MINUTE ‘SONGS’

Stable Audio 2.0 can create up to three minutes of audio via a text prompt - the tool is free and publicly available through the company's website.

engadget.com · 3 min

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WAYMO SELF-DRIVING CARS ARE DELIVERING UBER EATS ORDERS FOR FIRST TIME

Uber Eats customers in the Phoenix metropolitan area will receive some food deliveries via Waymo's Jaguar I-PACE electric vehicles.

cnbc.com · 2 min

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THE STATE OF GENERATIVE AI, 2024

The generative AI industry looks like it is facing many issues, but there is still a lot of hype, many people have found a use case for the technology and are using it, and research continues to push the field further at a fast pace.

thealgorithmicbridge.com · 11 min