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Flox mentions (8)

• Dagger Shell: Unix Pipeline Pattern for Typed API Objects

  Is the objective to get inside a container to do dev stuff? Reminds me of https://www.jetify.com/devbox and https://flox.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years

  I think it's a bad addition since it pushes people towards a worse solution to a common problem. Using "go tool" forces you to have a bunch of dependencies in your go.mod that can conflict with your software's real dependency requirements, when there's zero reason those matter. You shouldn't have to care if one of your developer tools depends on a different version of a library than you. It makes it so the tools... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts

  I think that's a bit reductive, but I get the intent. A lot of people see systemic problems in their development and turn to tools to reduce the cognitive load, busywork, or just otherwise automate a solution. For example "we always argue over formatting" -> use an automated formatter. That makes total sense as long as managing/interacting with the tool is less work, not just different work. With Nix I still think... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• UV has a killer feature you should know about

  Try flox [0]. It's an imperative frontend for Nix that I've been using. I don't know how to use nix-shell/flakes or whatever it is they do now, but flox makes it easy to just install stuff. [0]: https://flox.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Developing Inside a Virtual Machine

  If you like NixOs and virtual development environments, perhaps try https://www.jetify.com/devbox or https://flox.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Google Cloud Functions mentions (48)

• Top 10 Programming Trends and Languages to Watch in 2025

  Serverless architectures are revolutionizing software development by removing the need for server management. Cloud services like AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions allow developers to concentrate on writing code, as these platforms handle scaling automatically. - Source: dev.to / 5 days ago

• Exploring Serverless APIs: A Guide for Developers

  Google Cloud Functions bases pricing on Invocations, runtime, and memory with competitive free tier options. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• Get Started with Serverless Architectures: Top Tools You Need to Know

  Google Cloud Functions Google Cloud Functions is a scalable serverless execution environment for building and connecting cloud services. It provides triggers automatically, with out-of-the-box support for HTTP and event-driven triggers from GCP services. There are two types of Google Cloud Functions: API cloud functions and event-driven cloud functions. The API cloud functions are invoked from standard HTTP... - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• Stay Compliant, Mitigate Risks: Understanding AML/KYC as a technologist

  Ensure that the processing and throughput requirements of your AML/KYC solutions can handle appropriately sized volumes of data and transactions for your organization’s needs efficiently. A microservices architecture using tools like Docker or Kubernetes for proprietary systems can help to ensure scalability, allowing you to scale individual components as needed. Exploit load balancing and caching mechanisms to... - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

• Next.js Deployment: Vercel's Charm vs. GCP's Muscle

  Data-Driven Projects: Seamless integration with Google's data and AI/ML services (like Cloud Functions and Cloud SQL) streamlines development workflows for data-driven applications. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago