Programmer Weekly (Issue 19 September 3 2020)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 19

September 03, 2020

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 19 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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Quote of the Week

 

"Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges and it causes end-user and administrator frustration." — Ray Ozzie

News

Bottlerocket is designed to improve security and operations of your containerized infrastructure. Its built-in security hardening helps simplify security compliance, and its transactional update mechanism enables the use of container orchestrators to automate operating system (OS) updates and decrease operational costs. Bottlerocket is developed as an open source project on

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Microsoft announced two new technologies to help battle disinformation – Newsguard, which will allow users to check the accuracy of the content they are reading, and Video Authenticator, which can detect deepfakes and other synthetic meda – as part of our Defending Democracy Program.

GitHub Container Registry introduces easy sharing across organizations, fine-grained permissions, and free, anonymous access for public container images.

Reading List

Learn more about this critical infrastructure, which you likely use for hours every day.

Leaders at Adobe, Airbnb, Kong, and PubNub talk API design, documentation, and development.

This post looks at how Shard Manager is fully integrated in Facebook's infrastructure ecosystem and provides a holistic, end-to-end solution supporting basic shard failover as well as sophisticated load balancing, shard scaling, and operational safety.

A first in a series of posts where we talk about the motivations and architecture of our tracing system at Slack.

In many PostgreSQL databases, you never have to think or worry about tuning autovacuum. It runs automatically in the background and cleans up without getting in your way. But sometimes the default configuration is not good enough, and you have to tune autovacuum to make it work properly. This article presents some typical problem scenarios and describes what to do in these cases.

In this article introduces you to various concepts to helping you understand how computers are able to parse and understand common programming languages and process the instructions you pass to it.

Let's take a look at how applications like Authy work. We'll look at the code behind the time-based one-time password algorithm and more.

Rust macros allow cursed chimeric languages to exist.

You can infer a lot from what people write.

This post will talk about how something we thought was a good thing, but ended up to be not as great as we thought: CPU limits.

When developers speak about the Single Responsibility Principle, nobody seems to agree. What means the SRP? Should we still use it?

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In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to make your own Baka Mitai/Dame Da Ne meme from start to finish. We’ll be using a code script to create the deepfake and our free online editor called Kapwing to prepare and finish up the meme. 

Josh Evans spent 19 years at Netflix and now serves as CTO at Datazoom. In today’s episode Josh shares: the sequence of jobs that led him from artwork to software engineering, what the software economy for jobs looked like as he considered making the career change, some of the trials and context of riding the waves of technological change to the present day.

AWS SysOps Administrator Associate (SO1-C01) is intended for individuals who are pursuing a career in DevOps. This course covers DevOps topics relating to configuration, automation, patching and monitoring cloud services and virtual servers. By the end of this full course taught by an expert trainer, you will be ready to take the AWS SysOps Administrator Associate  - and pass!

Diane Hosfelt is a research engineer and the security and privacy lead for Mozilla's Mixed Reality (VR/MR) project. She and Scott talk about the considerations that need to be taken to enable Mixed and Virtual Reality to be a trustworthy and private experience for users. How does Mozilla plan to take all the different pieces - technology, legal and social concerns, user education, incentivization - and create a cohesive solution.

While you may not need to seamlessly manage your Kubernetes containers across multiple cloud providers, there are a lot of lessons to be learned from understanding the challenges of doing so. Our guest Joe Stevens walks us through the steps his company Ascend had to work through in order to support customers across AWS, Azure and GCP..

Books

A book for learning the Vim editor the smart way.

A book created by WebRTC implementers to share their hard-earned knowledge with the world. It is all about protocols and APIs, and will not be talking about any software in particular. It attempts to summarize RFCs and get all undocumented knowledge into one place. 

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Turning Smartphones into Robots.

This is htop, a cross-platform interactive process viewer. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. 

An open hardware reading device.

An extension for VS Code that visualizes data during debugging.

Beating Google ReCaptcha and the funCaptcha using AWS Rekognition.

A programming language to make concurrent programs easy to write.

A fast HTTP enumerator that allows you to execute a large number of HTTP requests, filter the responses and display them in real-time.

Futuristic Sci-Fi and Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework for Web Apps.

The modern styling library. Near-zero runtime, server-side rendering, multi-variant support, and a best-in-class developer experience.

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