Programmer Weekly (Issue 113 July 14 2022)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 113

July 14, 2022

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 113 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

"Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function." - John Carmack

News

AI researchers at Facebook-owner Meta have created a translation tool that works between 200 different languages. The company is open-sourcing the project to encourage others to build on their efforts.

Federal agency reveals the first group of winners from its six-year competition.

EC2 Mac M1 instances are now generally available.

Reading List

Learn how NVIDIA researchers use AI to design better arithmetic circuits that power our AI chips.

Like tidying up a house before a total renovation, preparing your monolith is the first step towards transitioning to microservices.

Scrum Teams are generally great at managing themselves. But they are restricted by the organization in many ways. Let’s dive into a couple of examples.

Find average developer salaries in the United States, European Union, India, and many more. We compared data from over a dozen countries where software engineering is growing and thriving. 

Learn how to use GPT-3 as a tool for explaining how code works.

A case study demonstrates how eBay's Notification Engineering team optimizes a streaming system in a microservice architecture to support high-throughput broadcast notifications.

Wix handles huge traffic with more than 500 billion HTTP requests and 30 billion Kafka events messages daily with over 2500 microservices all across multiple data centers all over the globe. And these numbers continue to grow. On this scale, caching is not “nice to have” anymore - it’s a must. This post describes how Wix built an internal caching solution as part of their server infrastructure. 

Most people who use Kubernetes know that you can scale applications using Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) based on their CPU or memory usage. There are however many more features of HPA that you can use to customize scaling behaviour of your application, such as scaling using custom application metrics or external metrics, as well as alpha/beta features like "scaling to zero" or container metrics scaling. In this article we will explore all of these options so that we can take full advantage of all available features of HPA and to get a head start on the features that are coming in future Kubernetes releases.

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble — well, sometimes it is.

This article is the first of a two-part series. It will discuss theoretical guidelines and goals regarding the monorepo and its usages at Escape. The second article will focus on the concrete realization of these goals.

Watch and Listen

Susanne Kaiser brought together Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping, and Team Topologies into a conversation about helping teams adopt a fast flow of change. In this podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with Susanne about why she feels these three approaches to dealing with software complexity are so complementary. The two then work through some of the patterns she’s seen in her consulting work and discuss how to get started, sequencing, and the effect of overall team size in applying these patterns.

OpenStack is an open source software that provides cloud infrastructure for virtual machines, bare metal, and containers. In this course you will gain a core understanding of what OpenStack is and you will learn the basics of setting up and administering OpenStack using the OpenMetal platform.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Open Source realtime backend in 1 file.

Color conversion & manipulation library by the editors of the CSS Color specifications.

Multi-cloud, multi-prem application deployments for kubernetes in minutes.

Logto helps you build the sign-in experience and user identity within minutes.

GPU accelerated Neural networks in JavaScript for Browsers and Node.js.

Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, transpiler and package manager – all in one.

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