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Apple Developer News

Apple Entrepreneur Camp applications are now open

Apple Entrepreneur Camp supports underrepresented founders and developers, and encourages the pipeline and longevity of these entrepreneurs in technology. Attendees benefit from one-on-one code-level guidance, receive unprecedented access to Apple engineers and experts, and become part of the extended global network of Apple Entrepreneur Camp alumni. Applications are now open for female,* Black, Hispanic/Latinx, and Indigenous founders and developers. And this year we’re thrilled to bring back o

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OpenAI News

Introducing SWE-bench Verified

We’re releasing a human-validated subset of SWE-bench that more reliably evaluates AI models’ ability to solve real-world software issues.

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PlanetScale Blog

Zero downtime migrations at petabyte scale

Scaling challenges, frequent maintenance tasks, constant fear of when it's going to all fall over, and quickly rising costs — these are all common issues that teams will put up with just to avoid the task of migrating a database that has outgrown its home. And with good reason. There is a lot of risk in moving from one database server or system to another: extended downtime, data loss, version incompatibilities, and errors no one could have even predicted. But what if I told you it doesn't have

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Vercel Blog

How to build scalable AI applications

In today's AI-driven landscape, your business's competitive edge lies in how effectively you integrate AI into your product and workflows. This guide focuses on three critical aspects of building scalable AI applications: Read more

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Vercel Blog

Update regarding Vercel service disruption on August 7, 2024

On August 7, 2024, Vercel's Edge Middleware and Edge Functions experienced a significant outage affecting many customers. We sincerely apologize for the service disruption. Vercel’s platform is designed to . As standard practice, we use staggered rollouts for both code and configuration changes. Every aspect of our infrastructure is designed to gracefully fail over to the next available region in the event of an incident, and ensures no single point of failure across infrastructure components. H

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