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Project Sauron: building a two-tower retrieval model for personalized recommendations at daily.dev

Discover how daily.dev uses Project Sauron, a powerful two-tower retrieval model, to deliver personalized content to over half a million developers. Learn how this innovative recommendation system leverages deep learning to improve user engagement and enrich developer experience with relevant and diverse posts.

Why we are discontinuing company sources and moving forward with squads

Why we are discontinuing company sources and moving forward with squads

Learn why daily.dev is discontinuing company sources and how squads offer a superior way for companies to engage with the developer community and gain organic exposure.

Highlights from the 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

Highlights from the 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

The 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey gathered insights from over 65,000 developers across 185 countries. Key highlights include the continued dominance of JavaScript, the rise of Rust and PostgreSQL, high AI tool adoption, and the growing trend of hybrid work models.

How we reduced our React monorepo CI time by 70%

How we reduced our React monorepo CI time by 70%

Under the Hood: Collections of Similar Articles

Under the Hood: Collections of Similar Articles

How we won April Fools 24 (because it’s a competition)

How we won April Fools 24 (because it’s a competition)

Optimizing our post page performance

Optimizing our post page performance

Latest posts

Adding the daily.dev DevCard to your GitHub profile

In this article, we will cover two ways of showing your reading interests through your GitHub profile: manually adding your DevCard by copying the code and automatically updating DevCard by leveraging GitHub actions.

February 20, 2024

2023 is finally over, let’s wrap it up!

2023 is finally over, let’s wrap it up!

Discover how daily.dev revolutionized the developer experience in 2023 with the launch of Squads, an AI-based Search tool, and numerous other features. Explore our community-centric Squads, join the AI-driven future of dev research, and experience our enhanced platform functionalities. Celebrate a year of innovation and progress with us at daily.dev.

December 20, 2023

Under the Hood: daily.dev weekly digest

Under the Hood: daily.dev weekly digest

Explore the technical journey of daily.dev in creating the "Weekly Digest" - a personalized weekly email feature. This detailed blog post covers challenges in sending over a million emails, user-specific content curation, scheduling complexities, and the use of technologies like GraphQL and Sendgrid. Perfect for developers and tech enthusiasts interested in email system implementation and personalized content delivery.

December 19, 2023

Exploring the Archipelago Architecture

Exploring the Archipelago Architecture

Discover the Archipelago Architecture in software development with daily.dev. Explore how it balances monolithic and microservices models, offering scalable, manageable solutions. Learn about its deployment units, infrastructure as code, and benefits in this insightful blog post.

November 20, 2023

Moving back to React

Moving back to React

Discover the story behind daily.dev's transition from Preact to React for frontend development. This post explores the challenges, solutions, and benefits of migrating to React, enhancing our web app's performance and development experience.

November 13, 2023

Scaling a side project: The story of daily.dev

Scaling a side project: The story of daily.dev

How we scaled daily.dev from its first moments to hundreds of thousands of users. Technical decisions, hiring the first engineers and more.

October 16, 2023

Error logging with Sentry on Fastify

Error logging with Sentry on Fastify

Fastify is one of the fastest Node js web frameworks out there. It was inspired by Express and Hapi but outperforms them when it comes to speed. Fastify is also open-sourced and focused on providing a better experience to developers with lower overhead.

September 23, 2021

Using Vue.js DevTools for Better DX

Using Vue.js DevTools for Better DX

Vue.js DevTools is available as a Chrome extension, Firefox extension, and stand-alone electron application. It allows developers to monitor and edit component data, handle routing, time-travelling through states, performance monitoring, etc. This article will discuss the usage of Vue.js DevTools to perform these activities in detail.

Chameera Dulanga

September 20, 2021

Five Leadership Lessons I Learned From Microsoft, Netflix, Stack Overflow, GitLab, & Equinix

Five Leadership Lessons I Learned From Microsoft, Netflix, Stack Overflow, GitLab, & Equinix

After a Year Interviewing The Best Engineers in Tech, This Is What I’ve Learned - (Lessons from Microsoft, Netflix, Stack Overflow, GitLab, & Equinix)

September 17, 2021

Building A Registration Form With Reactive Validation Using Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS

Building A Registration Form With Reactive Validation Using Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS

Alpine.js is a tiny JavaScript framework with no build steps but it provides all the tools needed to build a user interface. Alpine.js allows us to write declarative codes and with a size of about 6kb, it can be seen as a modern replacement for jQuery.

Lawrence Eagles

September 16, 2021

How to implement authentication in Next.js

How to implement authentication in Next.js

In this post, we will discuss how we can authenticate a Nextjs app. Authentication is quite broad and there are different ways to achieve it, but we will talk about the most common methods.

September 13, 2021

🚀 Scale to millions events every as a single developer. The production tales of daily.dev. [Podcast]

🚀 Scale to millions events every as a single developer. The production tales of daily.dev. [Podcast]

Liran Haimovitch from Rookout and I met the other day to discuss our experience founding daily.dev

September 6, 2021

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A comprehensive guide to competitive programming for beginners, covering essential concepts, learning resources, practice strategies, participating in contests, and advancing to the next level.

JavaScript Translator Best Practices for Developers

Learn about JavaScript translator best practices, tools, implementation steps, and special cases for successful localization. Discover how to integrate translation into popular frameworks like React and Angular.

Tag Manager Extension Basics

Discover how tag manager extensions simplify tracking user interactions and enhance online presence without technical expertise. Learn about popular options like Google Tag Manager and Tealium iQ.

Warp: a new AI-based terminal you should try out

Discover Warp, the AI-based terminal changing the game for developers. Explore AI-powered suggestions, reusable workflows, customization, collaboration tools, and more. Try Warp today!

Array TS Basics for Beginners

Learn the basics of arrays in TypeScript, including type safety, manipulation methods, accessing elements, iterating over arrays, and working with complex data. Simplifying arrays in TypeScript for beginners.

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