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+title: "Friday Hacks #246, October 13"
+date: 2023-10-09 12:25:15.5144
+author: Parth Gujar
+url: /2023/10/friday-hacks-246
+summary: On saving infrastracture costs by colocating and programming languages research
+---
+
+**Date/Time:** Friday, October 13 at 7:00pm SGT<br />
+**Venue:** [**Level 1 Auditorium** @ i3 Building](https://goo.gl/maps/AgrdhjKriqVQU9z56)<br />
+**Sign-up Link:** [Sign-up here](https://hckr.cc/links)<br />
+
+> **Food 🍕 will be served!**
+
+_If you are unable to come join us physically, you are welcome to join us [online](https://tr.ee/LQROP4Hwc8)!_
+
+<img src="/img/2023/fh/246.jpg" alt="Friday Hacks #246 Poster" /><br />
+
+## 1) How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years By Not Going To The Cloud
+
+The talk explains how cloud costs may be extremely high, through the Ahrefs data center in Singapore. Showing a practical approach to comparison of infrastructure costs in the cloud and colocation.
+
+### Speaker Profile
+
+Efim cares about IT infrastructure in data centers, and has worked on global projects in Yandex, Lazada, Acronis.
+
+## 2) What Programming Languages Research Can Do For You: A Hacker's Perspective
+
+Learn why PL is an exciting research area for hackers, with fun projects like building game engines using the meta-programming of the future, extending IDEs with support for the hottest languages (Rust, OCaml).
+
+### Speaker Profile
+
+Kiran is a PhD student at NUS. His research focuses on developing newer and better tools for automated formal verification.
+
+👋 See you there!
+
diff --git a/data/friday_hacks/friday_hacks_2324_1.yml b/data/friday_hacks/friday_hacks_2324_1.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ hacks:
   - venue: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/AgrdhjKriqVQU9z56">i3 Auditorium, NUS</a>
     topics:
       - speaker: Roc Zhang
-        title: From an idea to a product - how I made my first indie app 
+        title: From an idea to a product - how I made my first indie app
       - speaker: Ildar Iskhakov
         title: "From Zero to Thousands: Building a Tech Startup for DevOps and SREs and Joining Grafana"
         from: Grafana Labs
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   - nohack: true
   - venue: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/AgrdhjKriqVQU9z56">i3 Auditorium, NUS</a>
     topics:
-      - speaker: TBC
-        title: TBC
+      - speaker: Efim
+        title: How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years By Not Going To The Cloud
         from: Ahrefs
       - speaker: Kiran Gopinath
-        title: TBC
-    # blog_post: /2023/08/friday-hacks-247
+        title: "What Programming Languages Research Can Do For You: A Hacker's Perspective"
+    blog_post: /2023/10/friday-hacks-246
   - venue: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/AgrdhjKriqVQU9z56">i3 Auditorium, NUS</a>
     topics:
       - speaker: Leland Tran
         title: TBC
         from: momos
-      - speaker: Prof Ng Teck Khim
-        title: TBC
-        from: NUS
+      - speaker: Pierre Avital
+        title: "Rust: Fine, I'll Just Make My Own Stable ABI, with Compact sum-types and Stable rustc!"
+        from: ZettaScale
     # blog_post: /2023/08/friday-hacks-248
   - venue: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/AgrdhjKriqVQU9z56">i3 Auditorium, NUS</a>
     topics:

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