Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 141 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t matter how fast it doesn’t work." - Mich Ravera

News

Experts warn of steep increase in Java costs under changes to Oracle license regime

As per employee model replaces old subscription, user bills could soar.

Github SHA256 change broke many package managers

Reading List

Forking Chrome to render in a terminal

Carbonyl is a Chromium based browser built to run in a terminal. It supports pretty much all Web APIs including WebGL, WebGPU, audio and video playback, animations, etc. It's snappy, starts in less than a second, runs at 60 FPS, and idles at 0% CPU usage. It does not require a window server (i.e. works in a safe-mode console), and even runs through SSH.

Powering Millions of Real-Time Decisions with LyftLearn Serving

LyftLearn Serving is a robust, performant, and decentralized system for deploying and serving ML models; it can be used by any team at Lyft to easily infer models online through network calls. LyftLearn Serving is closely coupled with our ML development/prototyping environment, LyftLearn. In this post, we describe major components and important design decisions for LyftLearn Serving. Following this deep dive, we share a summary of the key ideas, learnings, and next steps.

A Framework for Prioritizing Tech Debt

Leverage is a powerful tool that applies to many things, including the code we write. However, tech debt like all leverage, comes with interest payments. How do we know when to start spending bandwidth on addressing it? We'll look at a framework that can help us ensure we don't reach a point of insolvency with our codebase.

K8s ASA: The Storage Interface

Like most API servers, a, if not the, primary function of the Kubernetes API Server is to ingest data, store it, then return it when requested. In this post, we are going to be focusing on how the API Server stores data.

Accelerating our A/B experiments with machine learning

Examples of problems with integers

How to add a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) to your containers with GitHub Actions

Watch and Listen

Full HTTP Networking Course – Fetch and REST APIs in JavaScript

Master the HTTP networking protocol by completing over 80 coding exercises and quizzes in JavaScript. Once you’ve learned it all, we’ll build a real web crawler using Node.js to put all the concepts into practice.

How to Create an AWS VPC with Public and Private Subnets

VPCs or Virtual Private Clouds are an important tool to ensure your cloud infrastructure stays protected. In this video, I walk you through the process of creating a public and private subnet in the AWS console. 

Books

Build Your Own Redis with C/C++

Learn network programming and data structures by coding from scratch.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Automatisch

The open source Zapier alternative. Build workflow automation without spending time and money.

MusicLM

Generating Music From Text.

precloud

An open source command line interface that runs checks on infrastructure as code to catch potential deployment issues before deploying. 

OTF

An open source alternative to terraform enterprise.

kysely

A type-safe typescript SQL query builder.

GraphGPT

Extrapolating knowledge graphs from unstructured text using GPT-3.

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