Weekly tech - 27th of January 2025
Rewriting SQLite, the french LLM and its flaws, handling requests properly thanks to the kernel and the PHP "experience", yes, this week was a good one, ready?
Welcome everyone, hope you’re all fine?
New week, new weekly tech and to be fair, this week, it’s a pretty heavy one, I volountary mixed very fresh news along with older ones (a few days / weeks) as some of them required more times to be tested / explored, well, again, I’m talking too much, time to start?
Let’s start with the database and Turso that officially announced that a huge part of their developers are now focusing on rewriting SQLite as an “full open-source” project (as I told you recently), let’s wait until the first release is here but the project has my full attention from now.
Base de données
Let’s dive into the “cloud” via an article exploring how our kernel handles incoming requests (mostly websockets here but the process still the same for other ones), I also discovered Hyperlight, a VMM that can be embedded easily in our applications.
Cloud computing
As always, let’s dive a bit into the machine learning part of the current developer ecosystem, this week, let’s talk about Lucie, the french model built to help the french students that failed miserably (let’s be honest, that was a true disaster) during its launching phase, you can explore the dataset used to trained it (a lot of things can be explained thanks to the dataset), apart from Lucie, you can also explore LMCache, a “proxy” for your LLMs applications that aim to reduce the TTFT and dive into how Deepseek was built and how it “think” and ingest data thanks to Huggingface.
Machine learning
Lucie 7B is out from the French LLM Community and it looks like a disaster
LMCache, a “LLM serving engine” (aka cache) to improve the Time To First Token
Last topic with PHP and a Deepseek client along with a “back to basics” article explaining how the garbage collector works and why you should care about it, last part is the process of bringing the pipe operator / directive into PHP using a “non-native” approach.
PHP
That’s all for this week, do not hesitate to comment / like if you liked this weekly tech, as promised, the first “podcast” version of the weekly tech will be published very soon (in french, sorry, the english version in under work), until it’s published, let’s meet next week, same place, same day for a new weekly tech.
See you next Friday!