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3D Asset Generation: AI for Game Development #3
Improving readability with React Wrap Balancer
Titles and headings on websites play a crucial role in helping users understand the content and context of a webpage. Unfortunately, these elements can often be difficult to read due to typographical anti-patterns, such as a single hanging word on the last line. To tidy up these "widows and orphans," reduces the content wrapper to the minimum possible width before an extra line break is required. As a result, the lines of text stay balanced and legible, especially when the content is lengthy.Re
Universal Image Segmentation with Mask2Former and OneFormer
Why metrics, logs, and traces aren’t enough
The increasing complexity of cloud-native environments has led to a growing need for unified observability solutions. And metrics, logs, and traces are not enough. Learn why continuous profiling signals are a must-have in your observability toolbox.
Changes to Vercel Image Optimization
Today, we resumed charging for Image Optimization overages at a lower rate of $5 per 1,000 images for Pro and Enterprise teams. Optimizing images improves the end-user experience of your site and decreases bandwidth. Teams only incur overages after the included limits have been reached. For example, Pro plans include 5,000 source images per billing period. Source image usage reset to zero at 9am Pacific Time on January 18th, 2023. You can view your current source image count in your usage dashbo
What is the N+1 Query Problem and How to Solve it?
Have you ever been working on an app, staring at your screen waiting for it to load, wondering what on Earth is going on? There are a lot of reasons why you could be experiencing performance issues, but a classic cause of performance issues in database-driven applications is the dreaded N+1 query problem. If you're wondering if you have an N+1 problem, you can sign up for a PlanetScale account to access our Insights query monitoring dashboard. More information about identifying N+1s with Insigh
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