Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 175 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"Make it hard to ignore error conditions. Don't bury error codes in return values." - Steve Maguire

News

Introducing secret scanning validity checks for major cloud services

GitHub announced that secret scanning now performs validity checks for select AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Slack tokens. These account for some of the most common types of secrets detected across repositories on GitHub. 

The Raspberry Pi 5 is finally here

Four years since the launch of the Raspberry Pi 4, the Raspberry Pi 5 has arrived with a performance boost and in-house silicon that adds support for PCIe 2.0.

Reading List

You Don't Need a Dedicated Cache Service - PostgreSQL as a Cache

Why maintain a Redis or Memcached instances when you can just use PostgreSQL as a cache?

LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

LLMs demand we modify our behavior and tooling in ways that will benefit even ordinary, deterministic software development. Find out why.

Storage challenges in the evolution of database architecture

Learn how Postman engineers solved a physical storage issue in the database layer of the service behind Postman Collections.

Lost in the network

A deep dive into the intriguing world of network packets.

An easy-to-implement, arena-friendly hash map

My last article had tips for for arena allocation. This next article demonstrates a technique for building bespoke hash maps that compose nicely with arena allocation. 

How to Build a SaaS Product with Next.js App Router, Clerk, AWS DynamoDB and Stripe

Learn how to build a complete SaaS product from start to finish using Next.js App Router, AWS DynamoDB as well as Clerk for authentication and Stripe!

Intercepting and modifying Linux system calls with ptrace

The article explores using the ptrace system call in Linux to intercept and modify system calls, offering insights into the mechanics of syscall interception and its practical applications for debugging and security analysis.

Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech

This article compares working at startups and big tech companies, highlighting the pros and cons of each. Ultimately, the best choice depends on individual preferences.

Watch and Listen

VS Code Tutorial – Become More Productive

In this full Visual Studio Code course, you will learn how to use built-in features, the best settings/extensions, and workflows to make yourself more productive.

Astro Web Framework Crash Course

Learn to use Astro in this beginner's tutorial. Astro is an all-in-one web framework for building fast, content-focused websites like landing pages, blogs, technical documentation, and more.

Books

The Internals of Deno

The one and only book in market covering the internals of Deno.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Crux

Cross-platform app development in Rust.

Carton

Run any ML model from any programming language.

Bruno

Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing Api's (lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia).

gokrazy

With gokrazy, you can deploy your Go programs as appliances to a Raspberry Pi or PC.

Pattycake

Pattycake is an optimizing compiler for ts-pattern that lets you have your cake (expressive pattern matching), and eat it too (zero runtime overhead).

Valibot

The modular and type safe schema library for validating structural data.

Nap

Nap is a FAST, file-based framework for creating and running integration tests over HTTP. 

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