Programmer Weekly (Issue 41 February 11 2021)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 41

February 11, 2021

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 41 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

"The standard rule is, when you're in a hole, stop digging; that seems not to apply [to] software nowadays." - Ron Minnich

News

The founding member companies include AWS, Huawei, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla with a 2 year commitment to a more than million dollar yearly budget to develop services, programs, and events that will support the Rust project maintainers in building the best possible Rust.

A complete overview of the JavaScript landscape in 2020: trends about front-end and Node.js frameworks, tooling, state management and more.

Chromium is driving a reduction in DNS root server traffic. Let's put some numbers to it.

New report highlights participation shifts, economic impacts, and other social constructs behind open source communities.

Reading List

The Story of a Novel Supply Chain Attack.

This post explains use cases and examples of SSH tunnels while visually presenting the traffic flows.

Wix has a huge scale of traffic, more than 500 billion HTTP requests and more than 1.5 billion Kafka business events per day. This post covers 4 Caching patterns that are used by Wix’s 1500 microservices in order to provide the best experience for their users along with saving costs and increasing availability.

This post goes through JavaScript frameworks and libraries that you can use to visualize your data.

Have you ever wanted to automate the tedious installation and configuration of programs that you use every day? Would you like to automate it so that you can do it again and again on multiple computers without much effort, e.g. when you get a new laptop? Would you like to update your configuration once and update all laptops and servers you use at once? Then read on as we set up a development machine together, using the automation tool Ansible.

Audio on Unix is a little zoo, there are so many acronyms for projects and APIs that it's easy to get lost. Let's tackle that issue! Most articles are confusing because they either use audio technical jargon, or because they barely scratch the surface and leave people clueless. A little knowledge can be dangerous.

This post dissects a common misconception about the SameSite cookie attribute and explores its potential impact on Web security.

How We Cut Our Dev Cycle 75%.

Learn the what, why, and how of API Gateway access logs.

This article goes beyond the basics and looks at how we can influence the build process of Docker images to make it faster and to produce much slimmer and more secure images for our applications.

Watch and Listen

John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.

Double NAT? Triple NAT? Opening Ports, punching holes in firewalls, it's all so complex, right? Does it have to be? Scott talks to Tailscale's Avery Pennarun and asks "can networking be simple?" Avery and his team believes it can with a new take on networking. Personal mesh-style VPNs with tech like WireGuard over a faster, leaner, cleaner, and simpler way to share your network with your team.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

One second to read GitHub code with VS Code.

Prevent merge conflicts before they even happen. Sturdy lets you know inside your editor when your code is conflicting with someone else’s on the team.

Fast, Secure and Reliable System Backup, Set up in Minutes. 

An open source design and prototyping platform meant for cross-domain teams. Non dependent on operating systems, Penpot is web based and works with open web standards (SVG).  

Serverless Stack Toolkit allows you to build serverless apps using CDK.

OSV is a vulnerability database for open source projects. It exposes an API that lets users of these projects query whether or not their versions are impacted.

Lightning-fast linter for .env files.

Materialize is a streaming database for real-time applications.

Self-hosted, Node.js based analytics tool for those who care about privacy.

Upcoming Events 

Devnexus is the largest Java conference in the USA & one of the leading technology events in the world.

A two-day conference on all things Node.js, gathering Back-end and Full-stack engineers across the globe in the cloud. 

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