Programmer Weekly (Issue 178 October 26 2023)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 178

October 26, 2023

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 178 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

"Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind." – Donald Knuth

Reading List

XFaaS is Meta's internal platform for "Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions." They claim its more efficient than AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions.

A primer on GPU architecture and computing.

DoorDash’s microservices architecture has grown, leading to increased interservice traffic. They streamlined caching through a Kotlin library, offering backend developers a fast, safe, and efficient way to introduce new caches.

Becoming a good engineer is about collecting experience. Each project, even small ones, is a chance to add new techniques and tools to your toolbox. Where this delivers even more value is when you can solve problems by pairing techniques learned on one project with tools learned working on another. It all adds up.

This article discusses what tools and equipment are needed to build a hardware hacking lab, and provides specific recommendations for each tool.

Learn SQL with simple, interactive exercises.

To investigate the potential of voice analysis as a prescreening or monitoring tool for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) by examining the differences in voice recordings between nondiabetic and T2DM individuals.

This article discusses the creation of a streaming SQL engine, emphasizing the technical steps and considerations involved in building a real-time data processing system.

Get ready to rumble! Join us on a quest to find the best authorization policy model in an epic battle royale: RBAC vs. ABAC vs. ReBAC.

Watch and Listen

Evan Czaplicki he discusses the economics of programming languages and how they are created by people who seemingly have no direct economic function. He examines specific organizations that create programming languages and how salaries for compiler engineers are funded. The post also explores how the economics work for people outside of major tech corporations 

Learn what technologies you should learn first to become a front end web developer.

This video delves into testing techniques with KUTTL, a testing tool for Kubernetes. Demystify Kubernetes by exploring how KUTTL simplifies testing processes, enhances reliability, and ensures seamless deployment of applications on Kubernetes clusters.

Books

Essential skills and best practices for high performing engineering teams.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Voyager is a library for performing fast approximate nearest-neighbor searches on an in-memory collection of vectors.

Orbital automates integration between data sources (APIs, Databases, Queues and Functions). BFF's, API Composition and ETL pipelines that adapt as your specs change.

Effortlessly discover API behaviour with a Chrome extension that automatically generates OpenAPI specifications in real time for any app or website.

A simple, distributed task scheduler and runner with a web based UI. 

Explain complex systems using visuals and simple terms.

The Open Source Survey & Experience Management solution for fast growing companies.

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