Laura Draghici

Today I have applied for the participation in Junction 2024 - back offline hackathon. It’s me, Igor Vernichenko and Aarni Pavlidi who will try to come up with something super exciting for the second time. Or have just fun as we did last time. #junction2024 #helsinkievents #backoffline #hackathon2024 #junction #hackathon

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Here are the slides for my GopherCon.EU talk: How to Win Frames and Influence Pointers https://lnkd.in/d7byRQfu #gopherconEU #golang

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I gave a talk at the most recent London Ruby User Group (#LRUG) on how experienced programmers solve problems, and what that means about how we think and communicate as human beings: https://lnkd.in/eBzTM53t I am really proud of this talk and care deeply about this subject; I'd love if you could give it a watch! (slides available here: https://lnkd.in/eXX89qXe)

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The policies being driven forward by Thierry Breton around the EU AI Act have been utmost damaging for the European tech industry, and they need to be revised as soon as possible. We need to better balance driving European innovation through data collection and modeling with conflicting needs such as data protection and safety. We need to ensure we can turn these developments into businesses that can be the pillar of the next generation of companies that provide productivity growth in Europe. We have no other choice - either we do this here, or we will have to take over products developed in the US and in China, as it already happened with search engines, cell phones, and social networks. We wouldn't want to let this happen with AI applications in robotics or digital assistants. #euacc #euaiact #aiact

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🚀 Ever felt overwhelmed by the sheer number of tech tools out there? 😅 You’re not alone! I have been getting a lot of questions about how I approach learning new technologies, and I realized it’s time to share my insights! ✍️ In my latest article, I outlined my personal strategies for mastering new tech tools efficiently. 💡 https://lnkd.in/dxDTwA-C Whether you are a seasoned developer or just starting out, these tips can help streamline your learning process and boost your productivity. 📈Curious about my journey? 🌟 Check it out and let’s discuss how you tackle learning in this fast-paced tech world! 🤔💬 #Learning #TechTools #DeveloperJourney 

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Want to come and work with me? We're hiring for a mid-level, a senior and a tech lead software engineer here in Manchester. We are a Scala shop so experience there would be great, but we're also honestly open to smart people with experience in other languages. * Mid-level https://lnkd.in/etE2_err * Senior https://lnkd.in/ehdGirbx * Lead https://lnkd.in/emh_R3Gx Update 2024-04-29: sorry, no visa sponsorship available for these roles. No agencies. Look, I mean it. I know there are arguments both ways but it's not my decision and if you think telling me how good your agency is will change anything, you misunderstand how enterprise companies work.

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This is an excellent blog comparing the streaming ingest of row-level operation comparison among the LakeHouse formats. https://lnkd.in/dsCN66_5

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One thing I’ve learned in my first 10 months at Meta… Don’t ask a senior eng what to do or how to do something. Instead, explore different approaches and ask the senior eng which they would recommend. For example, when devising the tech plan for a new feature that requires storing and retrieving new data, don’t simply ask what data solution you should use. Instead, scour internal wikis, existing code patterns, etc, to learn about the data storage solutions available. Then list out the pros and cons specific to your use case in terms of latency cost, capacity usage, reliability, implementation complexity, etc. Sending that breakdown to the senior eng (along with your own proposal for what you think the best choice is) will not only make their lives easier, but prove to them that you’re capable of working at the next level. Of course, there are exceptions. For example, if there’s a quick question that a senior engineer could answer in 30 seconds, but would take you 2 hours to figure out on your own, it makes sense to ask. What do others think? What types of questions should you ask senior eng and how should you decide whether to ask a question or figure it out on your own? #softwareengineer

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Over the past couple of years, I've really enjoyed learning Gradle and moving our build from Maven to Gradle has provided a massive improvement to our build times - from 90 minutes to 20 minutes. If you are new to Gradle, I've put together a series of blog posts on core Gradle topics: https://lnkd.in/e6qcD3mG

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Next week, I will be in #Berlin at LeadDev, speaking about #NeurodiversityInTech which is a topic I care deeply about. I will also attend many other great talks, so I am giving a shoutout to some of the talks I am most excited to see. Ice, confusion, and the 38,000ft crash - Nickolas Means Level up the whole party, not just the hero - Denise Yu How to talk to everyone: Connecting with your reporting chain - Najla Elmachtoub

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What does playing a game like Elden Ring add to your on-call game? It teaches you to be resilient and more importantly the fundamentals of understanding the patterns in front of you to be well prepared and make quick decisions. I share a first person experience of leveling up on the field, how to deploy Node.js on Kubernetes and why great observability is important: https://lnkd.in/dsq4Km7W

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What a honour to take part in building resources to teach primary school students about AI! 🦾 Well done to the Code for Life team!! Resources are available for all primary teachers and you can find out more below ☺️ Here’s a teaser: https://lnkd.in/eeAvt3C9

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Hello Everyone, Welcome to Part 2 of our series on Building a Cache Iteratively. In this instalment, we'll delve into the concept of introducing threads into the equation, understanding the challenges of concurrent access, and devising a solution within a data structure. We'll tackle these issues in the most basic yet effective manner, gradually building a reliable system. You can find the detailed discussion in the following Medium article: https://lnkd.in/gsKYTyzN For those interested in exploring the code base, it's available on GitHub: https://lnkd.in/gp-dTVdU Feel free to dive in, explore, and share your thoughts! #LRUCache #Cache #LLD

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Being an #engineering #team #lead is a challenging and exciting, yet sometimes lonely role. What could be better than having a community of TLs to help & support each other, learn, and grow together 🤟 ? This is why we established the Wix Server TL Forum. The Wix IL Server TL community has existed for over a decade (Yes! a decade!), but in the last 6 months, we've completely transformed it: We meet biweekly, with each meetup focused on a preselected topic. A sub-team of TLs creates and drives the sessions and discussion groups, allowing the entire forum to share experiences, best practices, and improve together. In the last 6 months, we've covered many hot topics: 🔥 TL role expectations 🔥 Quality! (including reliability, bugs & performance) - how to measure, achieve, and balance with progression 🔥 Effective Code Reviews 🔥 Effective On-Call Practices 🔥 Milestone Planning and Executions 🔥 Mapping & Overcoming Velocity Killers 🔥 Effective Knowledge Sharing Coming soon: 🔥 Product <-> Dev Collaboration 🔥 TL <-> HR Collaboration Looking forward to more leadership learning and fun! 🤩 We’re always on the lookout for talented TLs, so check out our open TL and non-TL positions: https://lnkd.in/duFHZBKU #Leadership #Engineering #TeamLead #Wix #KnowledgeSharing #CareerOpportunities

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This is a great blog from Gian Marco Iodice . Arm and Meta have a fabulous collaboration to empower developers to deploy quantized Llama models on Arm CPUs with ExecuTorch and KleidiAI. That's 4 great areas of progress in one sentence: quantization improvements, new Llama models, ExecuTorch beta release, and the great and growing KleidiAI backend. Whether you're one of over 20 millions developers targeting Arm, or one of the billions of users of Arm-powered devices, discover how you can leverage this powerful and innovative collaboration for mobile! Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/eepURWdX

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When reviewing code, I spend about 80% of my time on the contract: - the protocol buffer structure - GRPC method definitions - CRD's in our K8s Operator - DTO's in any REST API's 19% is spent on performance and security. Everything else doesn't matter since the customer only cares about: - Ease of use - Performance - Security - Capabilities.

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Falling back in with a side-quest Colab about LLM evals (high level) - its not just about prompting. Including my absolute favorite: Cosine Similarity. I love this algorithm (or is it technically just a function? ratio? idk/care). This colab is a bridge to some concepts I'm hoping to get to soon: like how to automate quality evals, and auto-reject outputs that do not closely follow the prompt instructions. These are things that really should be handled by code when creating LLM-backed services for production purposes. Again, this is using the smallest Llama 3.2 1B model, and there's no training step this time, so you can run it on just a CPU runtime without much fuss. LMK what you find (anyone who runs this should get different results, and those results are probably always going to be interesting)

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