Learning Containers From The Bottom Up

Je Ne Sais Quoi - Falcons over the Horizon

Overengineering can kill your product

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Hello Here is today's issue! ==================================================================== Learning Containers From The Bottom Up Published: 14 November 2021 Tags: containers Understanding how something works on the lowest level gives you the best chance of knowing its limitations and when it's appropriate to use or not. Ivan Velichko's article, although not the deepest of dives, acts as "a front-page for [his] multi-year study of the domain", as it provides a detailed enough outline and further resources to keep you going. ==================================================================== Je Ne Sais Quoi - Falcons over the Horizon Published: 19 November 2021 Tags: hardware, c "Falcon stands for FAst Logic CONtroller and is a proprietary microprocessor developed by Nvidia". Its first use was in GPUs from the G98 series, but has since been repurposed and reused for other series too. Mike Heskin and Michael have written a super in-depth article on hacking the Falcon. It really has everything you'd want to know, so check it out. ==================================================================== Overengineering can kill your product Published: 16 November 2021 Tags: philosophy When you're developing a product, you might be inclined to add features or extra code to handle things in the future. You might spend a lot of time doing it, only to find out later that you're not even going to use it, because your users don't want to use it. Simón Muñoz's article illuminates this issue and the general problem of overengineering, going through the what, why, and how to avoid it. Want to help? Thank you for reading! If you enjoy the newsletter, I would really appreciate you helping me spread the word by forwarding this to your friends and colleagues! If you want to discuss or comment on this issue, head on over to this page at A Byte of Coding. You can also subscribe there if you're new! Have comments or feedback? Just reply to this email or hit me up on Twitter @AByteOfCoding. Email landed in your promotions tab? Please move it over to primary so you don't miss the latest issues in the future. Thanks for your Support!  Thanks to sponsors and supporters like Євген Грицай, Scott Munro, zturak, pek, Emil Hannesbo, and Joe Hill this newsletter is provided to you for free. If you'd like to also show your support and buy me a monthly meal, you can donate on the Patreon page. It's not necessary, but it lets me know that I'm doing a good job and that you're finding value in the content.

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