Programmer Weekly (Issue 190 January 25 2024)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 190

January 25, 2024

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 190 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

"Tests are the Programmer’s stone, transmuting fear into boredom." - Kent Beck

Reading List

The article explores the differences between monolithic, microservices, and serverless architectures, emphasizing that microservices excel in scalability and agile iteration, particularly in cloud environments. It notes that serverless, based on functions, is closely related to microservices, but with the distinction that a function in serverless has a lifecycle—triggered, executed, and terminated—unlike the permanent availability of services in microservices.

How Stripe built Smart Retries, which predicts the optimal time to retry a failed payment using machine learning algorithms trained on billions of data points across the Stripe network.

Learn Datalog Today is an interactive tutorial designed to teach you the Datomic dialect of Datalog. Datalog is a declarative database query language with roots in logic programming. Datalog has similar expressive power as SQL.

The article from Slack Engineering discusses the fear of breaking production that holds many teams back from automating their deployments. It emphasizes the importance of understanding how deployment monitoring differs from normal monitoring and the iterative approach taken to ease these fears, ultimately leading to successful automated deployments. The article provides insights into the challenges and benefits of automating deployment processes, addressing the fear and concerns associated with automated systems in various domains, including cybersecurity and application deployment.

GOV.UK Notify recently migrated our production database. Find out how we did it with the least possible disruption to our users.

Unraveling the Complexities of Project Estimation with Jordan Cutler.

This post discusses DoorDash's transition from restaurant deliveries to a diverse business portfolio, facilitated by a robust logistics platform. The platform enables self-service configuration, empowering teams to efficiently manage and scale their logistics operations, reflecting DoorDash's evolution and expansion beyond its original focus on restaurant deliveries.

Watch and Listen

Linus Torvalds explores the profound impact of Artificial Intelligence on coding, discussing the evolution of programming languages, improvements in development workflows driven by machine learning, and offering predictions for the future of software development shaped by AI integration. The key topics include the transformative influence of AI on coding practices and the evolving landscape of programming languages.

Dive into the dynamic world of Event Driven Architecture (EDA) with this comprehensive course!

Books

The Concise TypeScript Book provides a comprehensive and succinct overview of TypeScript's capabilities. It offers clear explanations covering all aspects found in the latest version of the language, from its powerful type system to advanced features. 

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Tart is a virtualization toolset to build, run and manage macOS and Linux virtual machines on Apple Silicon. 

Code auditing and profiling tool based on gcc for C programs to adhere to NASA's JPL Rule of 10.

Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile!

Time Travel Visual Debugger for Rust.

A protocol for peer-to-peer data stores. The best parts? Fine-grained permissions, a keen approach to privacy, destructive edits, and a dainty bandwidth and memory footprint.

Private AI-powered personal knowledge management tool with a focus on running models locally.

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