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Feb 2023
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Stack Overflow's architecture, Lobsters'...

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Sahn Lam details Stack Overflow’s monolith/on-prem architecture, Hillel Wayne asks the Lobsters community for killer libraries, Linux 6.2 is ready to run on M1 Macs thanks to Asahi Linux, Johan Halse writes up what to expect from your web framework & Eli Bendersky on using GoatCounter for blog analytics.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - Stack Overflow's architecture
(01:16) - Lobsters' killer libraries
(02:46) - Linux is ready for M1 Macs
(03:58) - What to expect from your framework
(05:34) - GoatCounter web analytics
(06:49) - Outro

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