Programmer Weekly (Issue 164 July 20 2023)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 164

July 20, 2023

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 164 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

“When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.” – Martin Fowler.

Reading List

A DNS mystery at Adevinta; A failover causing an outage at GitHub; The challenge whether to do a rollback at Reddit; and the difference between public and internal postmortems.

The article presents a detailed explanation of Instacart's approach to achieving zero-downtime PostgreSQL cutovers, focusing on their strategies for minimizing disruption and ensuring seamless transitions in two lines.

Prompt engineering is the art of communicating with a generative AI model. In this article, we’ll cover how we approach prompt engineering at GitHub, and how you can use it to build your own LLM-based application. 

A series of hands-on tutorials on how to build a GPU-based GUI library in Odin.

Even modest improvements to build times are helpful. 

This post tries to summarize all the choices and paths you could take to implement your next programming language, more specifically the frontend for your language. 

In this tutorial, we show how to build an interpreter for a general-purpose quantum programming language, capable of executing most kinds of quantum circuits found in literature. It is presented economically, allowing its implementation to take fewer than 150 lines of self-contained Common Lisp code. The language is very simple to extend, making the interpreter ripe for testing different kinds of behavior, such as noise models.

Explore gRPC: a scalable, high-performance framework for efficient distributed systems, ideal for microservices and real-time apps.

How high-quality data impacts every aspect of the LLM training pipeline.

Watch and Listen

Learn how to use Postman to write and automate API tests.

Video demonstrates generating, running and editing code to control LEDs and servos connected to GPIO pins, as well as generating Python code to control a Raspberry Pi camera. But the method shown will work for any type of program, subject to the capabilities of ChatGPT.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

The next generation of Meta's open source large language model. Llama 2 is available for free for research and commercial use.

LazyVim is a Neovim setup powered by lazy.nvim to make it easy to customize and extend your config.

The next-generation Rest API Framework.

A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database.

An open-source plotting library for statistical data.

Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) algorithm for vector similarity search in PostgreSQL.

duct tape for your unix pipes.

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