Programmer Weekly (Issue 124 September 29 2022)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 124

September 29, 2022

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 124 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

"Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don't do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don't do it yet. ” - Michael A. Jackson

News

Code-generating systems like DeepMind’s AlphaCode, Amazon’s CodeWhisperer and OpenAI’s Codex, which powers GitHub’s Copilot service, provide a tantalizing look at what’s possible with AI today within the realm of computer programming. But so far, only a handful of such AI systems have been made freely available to the public and open sourced — reflecting the commercial incentives of the companies building them. In a bid to change that, AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, ServiceNow’s R&D division, has launched BigCode, a new project that aims to develop “state-of-the-art” AI systems for code in an “open and responsible” way. 

Lossy compression bypasses text-to-image portions of Stable Diffusion with interesting results.

Reading List

How our Publishing Pipeline team is harnessing the power of defaults to make the right path the easy path for tenants of our shared platform.

Demystifying zero trust and its implications on enterprise people, process, and technology.

Take a look at a data sharding scenario in which DistSQL's flexibility allows you to create a distributed database.

Guix is a fantastic developer productivity tool that can easily automate development environment creation and pre-release build testing and you should give it a try but if you like what you already use then that's fine, too.

How exactly would you design an optimizing compiler? Or more specifically, how do you design and implement the actual optimizations? Trying to do it all at once is really overwhelming and probably impossible.

An in-depth explanation of differentiable programming, for programmers.

An in-depth post on how to interview engineers to assess proven ability to deliver impact. Written by Metaview CEO and Co-Founder, Siadhal Magos.

We’re currently refurbishing our authentication stack at Back Market, and we need to onboard our developers and teams to various OAuth2 concepts. Here’s our take on OAuth2.

Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads.

This post shares Airbnb’s experience upgrading Data Warehouse infrastructure to Spark and Iceberg.

This post provides an overview of Venice and some of its use cases, divided across three sections: Writing to Venice, Reading from Venice and Operating Venice at scale.

We can use Make and a couple of short shell scripts to implement file content-based caching and read/write that cache to remote storage, such as S3.

Data is as much part as your apps as the code. Database management must only happen through CI/CD. Manual data changes are a big no-no.

Watch and Listen

Learn Machine Learning in a way that is accessible to absolute beginners. You will learn the basics of Machine Learning and how to use TensorFlow to implement many different concepts.

In this episode, we talk about how to get into Web3 development, with Nader Dabit, developer relations engineer at Celestia and founder of Developer DAO. Nader talks about how Web3 differs from Web2, when it makes sense to build something as a Web3 app, and what are the tools and concepts a developer needs to know in order to build an app for Web3.

What happens when a leader returns to the trenches? Not just for a day, a sprint, or a month. They commit to operating in one of their earliest roles again for numerous months. Josh is doing just that. Listen and find out why this would be a good move for you to try.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Open Source resource for learning Data Structures & Algorithms and their implementation in any Programming Language.

An awesome list of OSS developer-first security tools.

LeanQt is a stripped-down Qt version easy to build from source and to integrate with an application.

Tigris is a modern, scalable backend for building real-time websites and apps.

An open-source link shortener with built-in analytics + free custom domains.

The database client every command line junkie deserves.

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