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Building an Idempotent Job Queue in Node. js That Never Runs the Same Task Twice

Today, in modern backends, you probably have those distributed job queues for everything, including sending emails, processing payments, generating reports, and syncing data to third parties. As soon as you add retries to handle transient failures, however, you inherit a hard problem: how do you ensure that when the network, worker, or broker can fail at any point, your job runs exactly once? The short answer is: "exactly once delivery" is a great concept, but in practice it's mostly fiction giv

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AWS Security Blog

Designing for the inevitable: System prompt leakage and mitigations in generative AI applications

System prompts form the foundation of generative AI applications. A system prompt is a collection of instructions and operational context provided to a large language model (LLM) that shapes how the model behaves and interacts with users and tools. System prompts often contain proprietary information, including role definitions, behavioral guidelines, tool descriptions and usage instructions, […]

Advanced (300)Amazon Bedrock GuardrailsArtificial Intelligence
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The Verge Tech

Microsoft’s Xbox reset is pivoting Obsidian to make Fallout instead of Avowed

As part of Microsoft's big Xbox "reset," which includes layoffs affecting 3,200 staffers, jettisoning studios, and shifting investments to focus on "higher priority projects," Obsidian Entertainment is changing its plans. The studio, behind games like Grounded and The Outer Worlds, is starting work on a new Fallout title and has canceled "multiple projects," including a sequel to last year's Avowed, according to Bloomberg. Despite the success of the Fallout TV show, which is getting a third seas

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