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Inside the Vercel intern experience

The best way to learn is by shipping product to users in production, and that's why we don’t treat our interns as temporary guests. Every intern at Vercel is expected to operate like a core part of our engineering team from day one. This past winter, we welcomed a small cohort of those interns to our headquarters in San Francisco. Over an intense four months, they contributed to some of our most important products: the CDN, v0, financial infrastructure, AI Gateway, and more. They shipped feature

Pause All Laravel Queues During a Deploy

Laravel 13.25 adds queue:pause --all and Queue::pauseAll() to stop job processing on every connection without putting the app in maintenance mode. The post Pause All Laravel Queues During a Deploy appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

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Using Gemma4 with Ollama - Testing File Hash Analysis and Recommendations with AI, (Wed, Aug 12th)

In the past few weeks, I have been using Gemma4 as a Large Language Model (LLM) to see how useful it can be to analyze some of the malware hashes uploaded to the DShield sensor over the past 30 days and figure out how its recommendation can be considered useful about the activity my DShield sensor is collecting and tracking. The model I use for this testing is gemma4:e4b [2] using two sites to compare the data against VirusTotal and CyberGordon.

Reducing Text2SQL latency with parameterized query templates

Learn how parameterized query templates reduced Text2SQL latency by 80% and cut token consumption by over 50%. This post covers the architecture behind an intelligent caching layer that uses semantic similarity to match user questions to SQL templates, bypassing expensive LLM calls.

Laravel Image Responses: Serve Resized Images From Routes

Laravel 13.25 lets you return an Image straight from a route. Build on-the-fly resize endpoints with fromStream, toFormat, and cache headers. The post Laravel Image Responses: Serve Resized Images From Routes appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

Adobe Firefly: Simplified observability with Amazon Managed Prometheus

Learn how Adobe Firefly achieved 28x faster GPU metric queries by migrating from self-managed Prometheus to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, with improvements in query performance, infrastructure reliability, and operational efficiency.