Programmer Weekly (Issue 17 August 20 2020)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 17

August 20, 2020

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 17 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

It can be better to copy a little code than to pull in a big library for one function. Dependency hygiene trumps code reuse. - Rob Pike

News

Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI) that may be protected with industry-standard security while in an entity’s secure environment lose that protection when a developer exposes login credentials in public GitHub repositories. In this report, we describe nine data leak incidents that potentially impacted an estimated 150,000 - 200,000 patients, and possibly many more.

Classes previously only available to Amazon employees will now be available to the community.

Oracle announced the availability of Autonomous JSON Database—a new cloud service built for developers who are looking for an easy to use, cost-effective JSON database with simple NoSQL API's. Autonomous JSON Database provides all the core capabilities of MongoDB along with high performance, simple elasticity, full ACID support and complete SQL functionality.

The Rust Core Team and Mozilla are happy to announce plans to create a Rust foundation. The Rust Core Team's goal is to have the first iteration of the foundation up and running by the end of the year.

Microsoft launches site dedicated to their Open Source projects, programs, and tools.

Reading List

In this article, we will go through the different phases of the evolution of Uber’s API gateway that powers Uber products. We will walk through history to understand the evolution of architectural patterns that occurred alongside this breakneck growth phase. We will speak of this evolution over three generations of the gateway systems, exploring their challenges and their responsibilities. 

The Telltale application health model yields intelligent monitoring and intelligent alerting. Netflix service owners get alerts they can trust with little configuration and no need for constant tuning. When health problems strike, Telltale presents only the most relevant context and suggests possible causes.

Ergonomics & settling in for the long haul.

How to ship your app faster, more reliably and make your team unstoppable with good testing practices and automation.

How could an organization that had its hand in so many world-changing technologies fail to thrive?

With these tricks, you can be much more productive in git branching.

The history of all the languages which almost became CSS.

From someone that has used Roam Research and countless task/note management apps

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Watch and Listen

This short video shows the steps to write, compile, and run a simple "Hello World!" program on an SEL 810A computer, released in 1967. The code is in mnemonic assembler, or mnembler as it was called by SEL. 

The 2020 AIMI Symposium covers everything from a survey of the latest machine learning approaches, many use cases in depth, unique metrics to healthcare, important challenges and pitfalls, and best practices for designing building and evaluating machine learning in healthcare applications.  

A talk on OpenBSD for beginners.

Hyperapp is a tiny framework for building hypertext applications. It is a great way to build functional, feature-rich web application in JavaScript. It's ultra ultra-lightweight Virtual DOM, highly-optimized diff algorithm, and state management library obsessed with minimalism, all in the size of a favicon.

Learn the PERN stack by building a Yelp clone. The PERN stack includes PostgreSQL, Express, React, and Node. You will learn all the basics including installation, creating databases/tables, making queries, adding entries, establishing relationship between tables, SQL joins, and more

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Hosted API's with 24 * 7 availability to develop your app for free.

ct.js makes learning programming fun and game development easy by its visual tools, good docs and flexible, modular library.

Storybook is an open source tool for developing UI components in isolation for React, Vue, Angular, and more. It makes building stunning UIs organized and efficient.

Kapow lets us easily turn shell commands into HTTP APIs.

A web browser engine for the space age.

Get an overview of a directory, even a big one.

An idiomatic, modern, lean, fast, safe & pure rust implementation of git.

Archivy is a self-hosted knowledge repository that allows you to safely preserve useful content that contributes to your knowledge bank. 

SpaceSiren is a honey token manager and alert system for AWS. With this fully serverless application, you can create and manage honey tokens at scale -- up to 10,000 per SpaceSiren instance  -- at close to no cost.

Github action that checks the toxicity level of comments and PR reviews to help make repos safe spaces. 

A free video streaming service that runs on a ESP32.

2,000,000+ Unsplash images made available for research and machine learning.

A Java Virtual Machine written in 100% JavaScript.

Music Streaming and Downloading app made in Flutter.

danfo.js is an open source, JavaScript library providing high performance, intuitive, and easy to use data structures for manipulating and processing structured data.

Pomerium is an identity-aware access proxy.

Upcoming Events 

80+ speakers from 20+ industries presenting over 8+ tracks: All for free. Belong to a community of people passionate about DevOps.

Kafka Summit 2020 is now a worldwide, virtual event! On August 25-26, learn all things Apache Kafka, stream processing, and real-time data technologies.

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