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Geek Gossip
#Arattai - Arattai, led by Sridhar Vembu of Zoho fame, is reportedly facing a massive 100x surge in traffic, prompting emergency infrastructure scaling and code fixes. The team is scrambling after sign-ups skyrocketed from 3000 to 3 LAKH daily, ahead of a planned November release with new features and capacity boosts.
#ReelsOnlyUI - Instagram has chosen India and South Korea to test a new interface that displays the app’s Reels page first. The company first showed off a similar design when it launched its first iPad app earlier this month.
#OpenAI - Apparently, despite selecting which model you want to use with ChatGPT, OpenAI’s been secretly routing your prompts to other models - based on your prompt.
Latest Updates
X / Twitter Is Concerned About India's Secretive Online Takedown Portal
X expresses deep concern over a Karnataka court order enabling police content takedowns via the Sahyog portal, calling it unconstitutional and a threat to free speech, pledging an appeal.
Changelog
Google - Google gets a new logo! Well - not a brand new logo - just switched to a gradient "G" logo with blended colors, marking the company's first major logo change in 10 years. Weirdly, at the time of publishing this, their official blog that mentioned it (the links for which were being shared by all major news outlets) was returning a 404 - maybe an intern published it too early!
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Dayflow | Generate a timeline of your day, automatically
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Miscellaneous
Scaling From Zero To A Million Stores On Dukaan
The CTO Of Dukaan - India’s own Shopify - shared a new system design handbook for practical lessons on scaling applications, replication, observability, and resilience engineering for software engineers and startup founders. It’s FREE and open source.
Write The Stupid Code
A seasoned programmer shares their journey from struggling to find their passion in coding, and how they learned to overcome self-doubt and enjoy the process of writing code for personal projects.
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