Programmer Weekly (Issue 218 August 15 2024)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 218

August 15, 2024

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 218 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

"Get out of the way of your developers or lose them to someone who will." - Adrian Cockcroft

Reading List

The article details how the author created 175 pixel fonts using a custom Rust toolchain, covering the entire process from design to deployment. It discusses improvements over previous font packs, including expanded language support, style variations, automated kerning, and quality control, while also sharing insights on font design study and the development of a specialized tool called PIFO for pixel font creation.

Migrating onto Kubernetes can take years. Here’s why we decided it was worth undertaking, and how we moved a majority of our core services in less than 12 months, all while making our compute platform easier to use.

This post details a fictional developer's journey in implementing retries for microservices, highlighting the pitfalls of naive retry strategies and the importance of techniques like exponential backoff, jitter, and retry budgets. It emphasizes that while retries can solve transient errors, they can also lead to load amplification and prolonged recovery times during outages, necessitating careful implementation and complementary techniques like deadline propagation.

The article elaborates on Kubernetes' rolling update deployment strategy, emphasizing incremental changes, adjustable speed, and pause/resume options.

The article argues for the need to version observability data, particularly metrics, to address challenges in managing and interpreting data across different software versions and environments. It proposes a solution involving tagging metrics with version information and using a proxy to translate between versions, which could improve data consistency, reduce errors, and simplify the management of observability data in complex, rapidly evolving software systems.

Watch and Listen

This talk explores the history of the Free Software and Open Source movements, the sea change in these communities that GitHub ushered in, the licensing options that companies like GitButler are adopting to try to bridge these issues, the future of Open Source software and how to make the source code of everything available to everyone.

In this video we will demonstrate a technique for automatic dependency injection in pure Scala with no other libraries or frameworks. Here, instances are passed automatically just by the structure of the types in question, without relying on macros, annotations, reflection or any runtime behavior. The technique is based on an example from Martin Odersky after an informal discussion.

In this video, we’ll explore how K8sGPT uses the power of AI to simplify Kubernetes troubleshooting and management by providing real-time insights and solutions for your clusters. 

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Real time face swap and one-click video deepfake with only a single image.

High performance HTML and CSS renderer powered by WGPU. 

The Open-Source Email Platform.

TypeScript AI agent platform with Autonomous agents, Software developer agents, AI code review agents and more.

NodeJS Admin Panel framework on Vue & Tailwind.

A web browser that plays old world blues to build new world hope. 

Simple way to manage your remote machines and SSH keys. 

Run FFmpeg as an API with fluent-ffmpeg compatibility, queues and S3 storage.

Convert, package and manipulate your video on the fly.

Your Self-Hosted Home Cloud, Powered by Kubernetes.

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