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Programmer Weekly (Issue 247 March 27 2025)
Rahul Chaudhary
March 27, 2025
Welcome to issue 247 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.
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Quote of the Week
"Programming Is Like S*x: One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life." — Michael Sinz
Reading List
A visual-focused review of some key practical algorithms used in the real world.
This article explores how recommendation systems are evolving with the adoption of language models and multimodal content to overcome traditional limitations and improve personalization. It highlights techniques like Semantic IDs, multimodal embeddings, and LLM-based data enrichment to enhance search and recommendation quality.
What MCP is, how it can save you time, and how it works behind the scenes.
Learn what identity tokens are, how they work, and best practices for using them securely in modern applications. Avoid common pitfalls and strengthen your app’s authentication and authorization.
How we seamlessly transitioned thousands of organizations to a group-based permissions system in a performance-sensitive application.
This post discusses the rise of AI-powered "vibe coding," where developers use AI agents to automate coding tasks, leading to increased productivity. It predicts a shift towards "agent clusters" and "agent fleets" in the near future, potentially revolutionizing software development and giving skilled developers a significant advantage.
This post shares valuable PostgreSQL patterns for database design, emphasizing UUIDs, timestamps, restrictive foreign keys, schemas, enum tables, singular table names, and soft deletes. It also covers using JSON for query results and cautions about the use of views, offering practical tips to improve database maintainability and data integrity.
Learn how Terraform can help play a key role in disaster recovery strategies by simplifying and accelerating the provisioning of DR related infrastructure, while simultaneously reducing costs.
Watch, Listen
Ashutosh Agrawal discusses the architecture behind JioCinema's record-breaking IPL live stream, which reached 32 million concurrent viewers. He explores the complexities of large-scale live streaming, including performance optimization, failure detection, capacity planning, and challenges specific to the APAC region.
This video introduces agentic AI, highlighting its autonomous planning capabilities and the use of expert agents for specific tasks. It demonstrates how to create agentic AI agents using both low-code (Copilot Studio) and pro-code (Semantic Kernel) approaches.
In this video, Daniel Cumming a formal verification engineer at Runtime Verification and Rust instructor at RareSkills explains how the Rust compiler works under the hood.
Discussion about AI assisted coding called vibe coding, where inexperienced developers quickly build apps by repeatedly prompting and tweaking code without closely reviewing it.
Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries
A ledger implementation in PostgreSQL.
Parallel SSH, batch and command line oriented.
Run any Linux process in a secure, unprivileged sandbox using Landlock LSM. Think firejail, but lightweight, user-friendly, and baked into the kernel.
An open-source incident management tool supporting multi-channel alerting, customizable messages, and on-call integrations.
Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawlers.
A Rust implementation of a fast audio fingerprinting system inspired by Shazam, for audio recognition and identification. It focuses on speed, efficiency and simplicity.
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