Programmer Weekly (Issue 191 February 1 2024)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 191

February 01, 2024

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 191 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

"All programming languages are sh*t. But the good ones fertilize your mind." - Reg Braithwaite

Reading List

Build a simple LSM-Tree storage engine in a week.

The provides a detailed explanation of the contents of the .git directory, including the purpose of various files and folders.

One weather site’s sudden struggles, and musings on why change isn’t always good.

The Eagle 7B model, based on the v5 Eagle 2T model, has achieved a significant milestone by processing 1 trillion tokens across 100+ languages, outperforming existing models and demonstrating its strength in multi-lingual benchmarks. The model's development is attributed to the support of various organizations, including StabilityAI and EleutherAI, and it represents a notable advancement in language processing capabilities.

Sometimes, improving your application CSS just takes a one-line upgrade or enhancement! Learn about 12 properties to start incorporating into your projects, and enjoy reducing technical debt, removing JavaScript, and scoring easy wins for user experience.

How We Enhanced Cassandra Fleet’s Efficiency and Performance

Kubernetes Operators are constructed from different parts and components. This cross-referenced guide will list components you need to know to get started developing operators using the Operator Framework.

You can use this guide to get up to speed with Kubernetes as a developer. From its very basics to more intermediate topics like Helm charts and how all of this affects you as a dev.

Watch and Listen

This video is a demonstration of how you can build a full-stack Scala 3 application with Typelevel libraries (Cats, Cats Effect, Doobie, Http4s) on the backend, and Tyrian on the frontend, starting from (almost) scratch.

Learn about GitHub and pass the GitHub Foundations exam!  Learn the core concepts of collaborating, contributing, and working on GitHub.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

AdonisJs is a fullstack Web framework with focus on ergonomics and speed . It takes care of much of the Web development hassles, offering you a clean and stable API to build Web apps and micro services.

Chat with your SQL database. Accurate Text-to-SQL Generation via LLMs using RAG.

Minimal Documentation Framework, powered by React + Vite.

Zero-downtime, reversible, schema migrations for Postgres.

Native Kubernetes desktop client.

Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications.

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