My favorite game is bridge. It’s an excellent test of cooperation and strategy. I’m in a discord chat devoted mostly to the game and folks often share interesting bridge hands with one another. I decided it would be fun to build a program that parsed a simply-formatted bridge hand and produced a plain text bridge diagram.
Source: Parsing Permutations, an article by Drew Olson.
When I started using containers back in 2015, my initial understanding was that they were just lightweight virtual machines with a subsecond startup time. With such a rough idea in my head, it was easy to follow tutorials from the Internet on how to put a Python or a Node.js application into a container. But pretty quickly, I realized that thinking of containers as of VMs is a risky oversimplification that doesn't allow me to judge:
- What's doable with containers and what's not
- What's an idiomatic use of containers and what's not
- What's safe to run in containers and what's not.
Source: Learning Containers From The Bottom Up, an article by Ivan Velichko.
This post is an attempt to explain directly how modern transformers work, and why, without some of the historical baggage.
Source: Transformers from scratch, an article by Peter Bloem.