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Deploying simple Streamlit apps

Mostly Python • 524 implied HN points • 06 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Deployment GitHub Open Source
  1. You can deploy Streamlit apps to Streamlit's Community Cloud hosting service with a straightforward process.
  2. Make sure to be aware of the privacy concerns when granting Streamlit permissions for GitHub repositories.
  3. Streamlit sets a web hook on the repository, so any changes pushed to the repository's main branch will automatically update the deployed project.

jDeploy vs jpackage

jDeploy Newsletter • 84 implied HN points • 27 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Programming Software Development Tools Deployment
  1. jpackage is an official tool for bundling Java apps, dependent on platform tools, and useful for creating app bundles for Mac, Windows, or Linux with embedded Java runtime.
  2. jDeploy is an open source tool that can build and deploy app bundles for all platforms from any platform, offering a smaller app bundle size, auto updates, and deployment through GitHub or npm.
  3. Use jpackage for app store distributions, while jDeploy is great for easy deployment, auto-updates, and quick distribution of internal utilities or PoC apps.

Any Cables Monthly 18+

AnyCable Broadcasts • 59 implied HN points • 07 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Software Frameworks Deployment
  1. Introducing AnyCable+, a Software-as-a-Service product that simplifies real-time features setup, with the option to run it on premise later.
  2. The Action Cable adapterization initiative aims to enhance the capabilities of Action Cable and open up new possibilities.
  3. Channels in Action Cable offer benefits like organizing communication logic, simplifying stream authorization, and enabling RPC capabilities.
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Release Management

Software Engineering Tidbits • 255 implied HN points • 26 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Software Engineering Deployment CI/CD
  1. Ensure all necessary steps are taken before landing a pull request to the main branch, such as passing all tests and code reviews.
  2. Deploy new software versions gradually to production, starting with a small number of machines first.
  3. Consider implementing CI/CD for continuous deployment to improve observability, but balance it with on-demand deployments to ensure all changes are attended to.

Power of Redis: A Deep Dive into Caching Systems

The ZenMode • 15 HN points • 10 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Caching Data Structures Performance Limitations Deployment
  1. Caching like Redis stores frequently used data for faster retrieval, improving response times, reducing database load, and leading to cost-effectiveness in running high-traffic applications.
  2. Redis is fast due to in-memory storage, optimized data structures, reduced I/O operations, single-threaded architecture, and event-driven design, but has limitations like limited capacity and issues with data persistence.
  3. Choosing the right caching system, like Redis, requires considering factors like data size, access patterns, consistency requirements, and fault tolerance for high availability and durability.

🤖 I Built a Customizable Chat-GPT Bot. Here’s How to Build Your Own (with screenshots)

Michael’s Newsletter • 216 implied HN points • 16 May 23
🕹 Technology AI Chatbot Development Deployment UI
  1. The AI chatbot can be customized by uploading PDF documents with custom context for different use-cases
  2. The process involves copying OpenAI API key, uploading PDF files, and inputting questions
  3. The app uses Python Flask server, Heroku for deployment, and Bubble as a no-code UI for building the chatbot

Embedding as a Service(EaaS) vs. Model as a Service(MaaS)

MLOps Newsletter • 58 implied HN points • 06 Aug 23
🕹 Technology AI Deployment Comparison
  1. Embedding as a Service (EaaS) provides access to pre-trained embeddings for tasks like NLP and is easy to use.
  2. Model as a Service (MaaS) offers pre-trained models for tasks like image classification and can be more accurate but may be more expensive.
  3. EaaS is cost-effective and offers flexibility, while MaaS provides models with higher accuracy and interpretability.

Azure AI Studio Tip: Deploying to an Existing Web App Generates a Newly Registered AAD App Every Time

Rod’s Blog • 39 implied HN points • 04 Aug 23
🕹 Technology AI Azure Deployment
  1. Deploying updates to an existing Web App in Azure AI Studio creates a new AAD App registration every time, making it harder to manage the app.
  2. Having additional App registrations may not have a clear cost or performance impact, but it adds complexity in tracking and managing the most recent one.
  3. Assigning a real domain to your Web App means you'll need to find and update redirect URLs in Authentication for each newly registered AAD App to ensure user login functionality.

Full Context Development Newsletter - Astro 2.0 review

Full Context Development • 39 implied HN points • 13 Feb 23
🕹 Technology Programming Frontend Deployment
  1. Newsletter focuses on objective analysis of programming tools and trends to help tech decision-making and career growth.
  2. Astro 2.0 release offers benefits like Content Collection API for error prevention and Hybrid Rendering for flexibility in rendering strategies.
  3. Developers can benefit from tools like Astro 2.0 that improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance customer experience.

Migrating ArgoCD PVCs from One Cluster to Another

Ops Sorry • 19 implied HN points • 26 Jun 23
🕹 Technology Software Deployment Migration Management
  1. Migrating PVCs with ArgoCD can lead to sync issues due to certain parameters becoming immutable.
  2. Modifying PVCs after creation is not possible, so consider letting ArgoCD handle PVC creation and modifying the bound PV instead.
  3. To resolve PVC migration issues with ArgoCD, delete the bound PV, update the PV manifest with new PVC values, and verify the status updates back to 'Bound.'

Local Llama and much more!

ScaleDown • 7 implied HN points • 15 Aug 23
🕹 Technology AI ML Deployment Open Source
  1. The newsletter focuses on deploying LLMs locally, offering tips and expert answers.
  2. It includes a comprehensive guide on local deployment of LLMs, combining reliable methods with innovation.
  3. The newsletter addresses top LLM questions, covering topics like overfitting, customization, and linguistic diversity.

How to Deploy a Node.js Application on Heroku

Implementing • 0 implied HN points • 15 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Deployment Node.js Software Engineering Web Development
  1. Deployment is crucial to make your application accessible to end users in a production environment, allowing realistic testing conditions and optimizing performance and scalability.
  2. Heroku is a user-friendly platform for deploying applications, abstracting away technical details and offering configurable add-ons like logging and databases.
  3. Steps to deploy a Node.js app on Heroku include creating an account, connecting to GitHub, setting up environment variables, and testing the deployed application.

Real-time magic, no elixirs: optimizing Sera with AnyCable

AnyCable Broadcasts • 0 implied HN points • 01 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Infrastructure Monitoring Testing Deployment CI/CD
  1. The project successfully migrated a critical GPS tracking service from Elixir to AnyCable, enabling real-time features and smoother maintenance.
  2. The team optimized the infrastructure using AWS ECS, Fargate, and CloudFormation, delivering improvements in performance, scalability, and resource management.
  3. AnyCable deployment was streamlined within the project's infrastructure, bringing in monitoring features and helping speed up the CI/CD pipeline.

Any Cables Monthly #5

AnyCable Broadcasts • 0 implied HN points • 02 Dec 22
🕹 Technology Web Development Frameworks Deployment Websockets
  1. Action Cable in Rails 7.1 can now gracefully handle Redis connection disruption, useful for applications on platforms like Fly.io.
  2. Stimulus v3.2.0 brings hotkeys support for actions and an Outlets API for building atomic controllers.
  3. Consider optimizing HTML payloads over WebSockets through compression methods like permessage-deflate, balancing resource usage.

Learn to Fly.io with AnyCable

AnyCable Broadcasts • 0 implied HN points • 06 Sep 22
🕹 Technology Programming Deployment Performance Metrics Guides
  1. The benchmark results showed that AnyCable (RPC-less) handled 2700 concurrent connections, consuming only half of the available RAM (~120MB).
  2. Fly.io deployment guide for AnyCable and Real-time stress: AnyCable, k6, WebSockets, and Yabeda are helpful resources for developers.
  3. Issues like getting an app's Ruby version from the Gemfile have been fixed in recent 'flyctl' versions, and termination of Redis connections is intentional according to Fly docs.