Newsletter - September 15th 2024

My newsletters are a handful of articles I’ve read that I think are interesting enough to share. Enjoy!

PostNL’s Serverless Journey - Luc van Donkersgoed

https://medium.com/postnl-engineering/business-overview-f7c8d8ebee2c

This comprehensive overview of rolling out a serverless architecture on AWS at PostNL is an excellent read. I’ve been on a similar journey, at a smaller scale, and wish I had some of this wisdom before I started.

Your Name In Landsat - NASA

https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html

This is such a simple and cool concept for a website.

Going Buildless - Max Böck

https://mxb.dev/blog/buildless/

There seems to be a growing movement that is a reaction to the ever-increasing complexity of frontend development. I am very much onboard with a new era of simplicity.

Modernizing a 1993 German CityEl electric car - bleeptrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=divOHGn2AhI

I’ve never seen a CityEl before but they have a similar aesthetic to the Sinclair C5’s of my childhood. bleeptrack walks us through the modernisation process of bring ing this amazing vehicle back to life. It reminds me I have to spend more time on maker Youtube.

ASIC experiment with Large Language Models - Australian Parliament

https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=b4fd6043-6626-4cbe-b8ee-a5c7319e94a0

ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission) partnered with AWS to run an experiment with Large Language Models. The results aren’t great but it’s an interesting look into government R&D.

Building LLM-powered applications in Go - Eli Bendersky

https://go.dev/blog/llmpowered

I’m still not entirely convinced with the utility of LLMs and if they live up to the marketing hype or not, but I’ve been dipping my toe in recently and running some tests for various use-cases. This post takes a look at the tools available in the Go ecosystem to get up and running.