Programmer Weekly (Issue 168 August 17 2023)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 168

August 17, 2023

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 168 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

"Code never lies, comments sometimes do." - Ron Jeffries

Reading List

The article outlines how Red Planet Labs achieved a remarkable 100x reduction in the cost of building a Twitter-like platform at Twitter-scale, employing innovative architectural changes, efficient resource utilization, and advanced caching techniques, resulting in substantial cost savings while maintaining performance and functionality. It provides insights into the specific strategies employed to optimize infrastructure expenses and enhance scalability in a large-scale social media application.

The article discusses how Meta AI has used machine learning to improve the scalability and performance of the Explore recommendations system. The system uses a variety of techniques, including task-specific domain-specific language (DSL) and a multi-stage approach to ranking, to ensure that users see relevant content as quickly as possible.

The authors explains how he built dumpster, an cycle-detecting garbage collector for Rust. It detects unreachable allocations and automatically frees them.

This white paper provides a comprehensive overview of classical and distributed transactions and explains how data distribution affects their implementation in cloud-based environments.

Optimizing the performance of eBay's sites and apps for a faster user experience.

If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.

The article goes into more detail on the different factors that contribute to cost inefficiency in scaleups, as well as the specific steps that can be taken to address them.

Cloud automation isn’t just about infrastructure anymore. This also affects automation language design.

Watch and Listen

This course from Harvard University explores the concepts and algorithms at the foundation of modern artificial intelligence, diving into the ideas that give rise to technologies like large language models, game-playing engines, handwriting recognition, and machine translation. 

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

A monotonic indexer to speed up grepping by >10x.

pixi is a cross-platform, multi-language package manager and workflow tool build on the shoulders of the conda ecosystem. pixi supports Python, R, C/C++, Rust, Ruby, and many other languages.

Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the edge 

A comprehensive PHP Generative AI Framework using OpenAI GPT 4. Inspired by Langchain and LLamaIndex.

Typograms (typographic diagrams) is a lightweight image format (text/typogram) useful for defining simple diagrams in technical documentation.

Layerform helps engineers create reusable environment stacks using plain `.tf` files. 

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