Programmer Weekly (Issue 118 August 18 2022)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 118

August 18, 2022

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 118 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

"The most secure code in the world is code which is never written." - Colin Percival

News

Startup Stability AI now announced the release of Stable Diffusion, another DALL-E 2-like system that will initially be gradually made available to new researchers and other groups via a Discord server. After a testing phase, Stable Diffusion will then be released for free – the code and a trained model will be published as open source. There will also be a hosted version with a web interface for users to test the system.

Microsoft Dev Box is a managed service that enables developers to create on-demand, high-performance, secure, ready-to-code, project-specific workstations in the cloud.

Reading List

At Wix we have been gradually migrating our growing set of microservices (currently at 2300) from the request-reply pattern to event driven architecture over the last few years. Below there are 5 pitfalls that Wix engineers have encountered during our experimentation with event driven architecture.

sqlite-http is a new SQLite extension that allows you to create HTTP requests in SQLite. Think of fetch(), requests.get(), or curl, but entirely in SQL!

As machine learning moves towards real-time, streaming technology is becoming increasingly important for data scientists. With luck, as a data scientist, you shouldn’t have to build or maintain a streaming system yourself. Your company should have infrastructure to help you with this. However, understanding where streaming is useful and why streaming is hard could help you evaluate the right tools and allocate sufficient resources for your needs.

A general approach to rasterization and how we can ask for help from GPU when rendering vector paths.

Platform as a product is becoming an increasingly popular approach to building internal platforms in engineering organisations. While software-driven companies are competing for market share, there is another, more subtle competition on the rise: who can enable their engineers to ship new features fastest; who has the most effective internal platform? In this post, we will share our approach to building out KPI trees for our platform engineering teams at Wise (formerly TransferWise). 

Many know GPT-3 as a tool for robust text generation. But a newer, lesser discussed feature that OpenAI allows is finetuning GPT-3 on data you provide. If I provide GPT-3 with a large dataset of good titles, can I use that to tell me if one of my blog post titles are good? Let’s give it a try.

Watch and Listen

Exploring how neural networks learn by programming one from scratch in C#, and then attempting to teach it to recognize various doodles and images.

What is Infrastructure as Code, Why do we need to follow certain practices to automate our application infrastructure, these are some of the questions that were answered in this discussion.

Randy Shoup of eBay discusses the evolution of eBay’s tech stack, eBay’s origins as a single C++ class with an Oracle database, a five-year migration to multiple Java services, sharing a database between the old and new systems, building a distributed tracing system, working with bare metal, why most companies should stick to cloud, why individual services should own their own data storage, how scale has caused solutions to change, rejoining a former company, choosing what to work on first, the Accelerate Book, and improving delivery time.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

56 Code Smells, of which 15 are original propositions. Each smell was classified according to taxonomy, synonyms, type of problem it causes, relations, etc. 

A small statically-linked linux system.

Learn how to identify and fix linguistic antipatterns in your code.

A design system for building retro Apple interfaces.

Fast and beautiful interactive component playgrounds, powered by Vite.

A Python-compatible statically typed language.

Remote development environments on your infrastructure provisioned with Terraform

Teach your PostgreSQL database how to speak MongoDB Wire Protocol 

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