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It’s often very useful to provide inline performance information in a query response, for example when debugging a slow query. The GraphQL specification allows servers to include additional information as part of the response under an extensions key. This is incredibly useful for metadata like tracing information (e.g. in Apollo)

Production Ready GraphQL

Marc-Andre Giroux

GPT-3/4 is like a Meeseeks box for computer and internet tasks. Keep your task simple, and it will quickly and happily solve it for you before ceasing to exist. (Well, that’s how I use it via the API, at least. ChatGPT will preserve the state, but of course the context window is still limited anyway.)

https://youtu.be/qUYvIAP3qQk

ycombinator.com

When asked for IC career advice the first thing I always say is: YOU grow your career and influence. Not management, not the company, YOU. This means constantly advocating for ways to grow: subjects to learn, projects with increased scope, and sometimes new teams or companies.

Matt Klein on Twitter: "Last Week I Sat for an Internal Interview About My Career Progression to High Level IC Engineer, With a Focus on How I've Never Felt I Needed to Become a Manager to Gain Influence. I Thought I Would Share Some of My Career Advice for Aspiring IC "Lifers." Thread!" / Twitter

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