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

ARTICLES & TUTORIALS

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TLDR Web Dev

YOUR BAD LCP SCORE MIGHT BE A BACKEND ISSUE

A poor Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) score can often be caused by backend issues. While tools like Page Speed Insights and Google Lighthouse are helpful for frontend analysis, tracing user journeys and examining spans help uncover more issues. By doing so, developers can pinpoint problematic database queries or other backend operations that contribute to slow LCP scores.

blog.sentry.io · 8 min

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YOUR COMPANY'S PROBLEM IS HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

Teams should focus on fewer tasks and allow for more downtime, which counterintuitively leads to faster feature delivery and increased value. When working on too many things at once, teams may actually deliver things slower because there are too many things that are in a work-in-progress state. Smaller, faster completions keep momentum going.

mdalmijn.com · 8 min

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WHY I SWITCHED TEAMS

This author switched teams to AI/ML Training Infra due to the fast growth and opportunities in the AI space. They were also motivated by curiosity about the technical challenges in AI compute efficiency and the opportunity to work with talented engineers.

developing.dev · 3 min

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THE SAD STATE OF PROPERTY-BASED TESTING LIBRARIES

Property-based testing is a technique that originated from academic research. It has seen widespread adoption in various programming languages. However, most current libraries lack advanced features like stateful and parallel testing, which were established as state-of-the-art fifteen years ago. This lack of progress is due to the perception that pure function testing is more valuable, the need for specialized training for stateful modeling, and the success of closed-source solutions in industry adoption.

stevana.github.io · 90 min

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STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO CHOOSING THE BEST EMBEDDING MODEL FOR YOUR APPLICATION

Choosing the right embedding model for search and RAG applications requires considering your specific needs and evaluating different models on your own data. The MTEB Leaderboard is a helpful starting point, but validation on your own use case is necessary for the best results.

weaviate.io · 10 min

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HOW WE BUILD EXPERIMENTS IN-HOUSE

Canva's experimentation analysis platform started with a data scientist-focused Python package and a command-line interface. It then transitioned to an interface that could be used by all employees and a separate microservice for analysis components. This allowed it to manage experiments much easier in-house.

canva.dev · 5 min

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HOW TO SEE AND STOP PROJECT FAILURE BEFORE THE EFFORT STARTS

Projects fail due to resource scarcity, multitasking, and siloed teams.

jrothman.com · 3 min