Programmer Weekly (Issue 233 November 28 2024)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 233

November 28, 2024

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 233 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors." - Anonymous

Reading List

In the previous post I talked about running ML inference in Go through a Python sidecar process. In this post, let's see how we can accomplish the same tasks without using Python at all.

Learn to use jq through incremental, interactive examples right in your browser.

Normally when developers/SWEs/SRE/IT are oncall for a project, the oncall is from Monday of one week to Monday of the following week. This is sub-optimal. Instead it should be Tuesday to Tuesday. This is a 0 cost improvement to everyone’s quality of life and improves schedule accuracy.

The "Zero Disk Architecture" proposes using cloud object storage like Amazon S3 as the primary data store for databases, eliminating the need for managing local disks or storage servers. This approach offers benefits such as infinite scalability, high durability, and simplifie

How we improved Canva’s private design search while respecting the privacy of our community.

How Airbnb uses data-driven segmentation to understand supply availability patterns.

Watch and Listen

Discussion on setting up and using Cloudflare tunnels to securely expose local web servers and home media servers over the internet with custom domains and access controls.

It's entirely possible to have strong disaster recover AND distributed replicas with SQLite when using Litestream and LiteFS. This is a chat with Litestream and LiteFS creator Ben Johnson about how this can be done.

Learn how to set up and use Ollama to build powerful AI applications locally. This hands-on course covers pulling and customizing models, REST APIs, Python integrations, and real-world projects like a Grocery List Organizer, RAG System, and an AI Recruiter Agency. Perfect for developers and AI enthusiasts ready to bring their ideas to life with local LLMs. 

This podcast episode discusses ADHD and its impact on programmers. The guest, Chris Ferdinandi, shares his personal experiences with ADHD and how it affects his work.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

VictoriaMetrics is a fast, cost-saving, and scalable solution for monitoring and managing time series data. It delivers high performance and reliability, making it an ideal choice for businesses of all sizes.

WeSQL is an innovative MySQL distribution that adopts a compute-storage separation architecture, with storage backed by S3 (and S3-compatible systems). It can run on any cloud, ensuring no vendor lock-in. 

A Programming Language Made using Rust.

An open-source computation framework with a mission to unify stream processing, batch processing, and compute-intensive (AI) workloads.

Rust library for generating vector embeddings, reranking locally.

Super Performance DataGrid. Works on desktop, phone and tablet. Has no dependency. Pure JavaScript.

Giving types to jq.

Build ultra fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with Typescript. 

Open-source platform for extracting structured data from documents using AI. 

Embed an SQLite database in your PostgreSQL table. AKA multitenancy has been solved.

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