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Developer Experience Redefined: Prisma & Cloudflare Lead the Way to Data DX
Prisma introduces Data DX and announces a partnership with Cloudflare
Practical 3D Asset Generation: A Step-by-Step Guide
Open-sourcing Knowledge Distillation Code and Weights of SD-Small and SD-Tiny
Engineering a site at the speed of breaking news
Many Vercel and Next.js users deal with large swaths of data. But few wrangle data in the way The Washington Post Elections Engineering team does. Knowing their platform must be fast and visually compelling—all while handling constant updates from thousands of federal, state, and local elections—The Post moved to Next.js and Vercel for the 2022 US midterm elections. Read more
Improved performance for Vercel Postgres from Edge Functions
The has significantly improved performance for Postgres queries from Vercel Edge Functions.Vercel Postgres SDK The package has been updated to use the latest version of Neon’s Serverless driver which adds support for SQL-over-HTTP when you use the . Simple queries that do not require transactions now complete in —up to .@vercel/postgres template literal tagsql~10msa 40% speed increase You do not need to make any changes to your queries to see these improvements, you only need to update to to
Stable Diffusion XL on Mac with Advanced Core ML Quantization
How PlanetScale unlocks developer productivity
You and your team have worked tirelessly on finding and hiring the best software engineers around, but are they as productive as they want to be? More and more organizations are focusing on how to improve developer productivity, and we believe it starts with your database. This guide will walk through what slows developers down, why it matters, and how a better database can unlock developer productivity — and ergo, innovation — for your organization. What slows developers down? You can hire the
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