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Four short links: 30 April 2020

Microservices Problems, GNU Binary Editor, Open-Domain Chatbot, and CopyLeft Conf 2020 Videos

By Nat Torkington
April 30, 2020
Four Short Links
  1. To Microservices and Back Again: Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith — microservices came with increased operational overhead and problems around code reuse. … If microservices are implemented incorrectly or used as a band-aid without addressing some of the root flaws in your system, you’ll be unable to do new product development because you’re drowning in the complexity.
  2. GNU poke — interactive editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them. (via Kernel Recipes)

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  3. Blender — Facebook open sourced their open-domain (“can talk about anything!”) chatbot. Human evaluations show our best models are superior to existing approaches in multi-turn dialogue in terms of engagingness and humanness measurements.
  4. CopyLeft Conf 2020 Videos — the schedule has more info on each talk.
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