Programmer Weekly (Issue 53 May 6 2021)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 53

May 06, 2021

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 53 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

"Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only two sizes: too big and too small." - Richard Pattis

News

A research team from Google and the University of California, Berkeley calculates the energy use and carbon footprint of large-scale models T5, Meena, GShard, Switch Transformer and GPT-3, and identifies methods and publication guidelines that could help reduce their CO2e footprint.

Facebook has embraced Rust since 2016 and utilizes it in all aspects of development, from source control to compilers. Alongside the other fellow foundation members, Facebook is committed to sustaining and growing the Rust open source ecosystem and community.

Used the GitHub Codecov Action? Credentials may have been pilfered.

A new transient execution variant is the first exploit micro-ops caches.

Reading List

Here’s a riddle. My web app keeps all of its data in a SQL database. I can spontaneously tear it down, deploy the code to a different hosting platform, and the app will still serve all the same data. Running my app in production costs $0.03 per month. How is this possible? Read the post to learn the details.

A story of how I found a vulnerability and developed an exploit to break out of the App Engine sandbox and get arbitrary code execution on a Google server.

To support our migration to microservices we needed to find a new tech stack. Learn how we compared all the options and chose Kotlin.

How to rewrite legacy applications or split monoliths into microservices without slowing down on delivering features or introducing bugs in your system.

Today, GitHub can repack even the largest repositories we host in a fraction of the time it used to take. Here's how we did it, and why.

An overview and comparison of the various approaches, with examples from industry search systems.

This post takes a peek under the hood of Replit's hosting infrastructure and walk through how they made hosting work in a multi-cluster world.

Geometric Deep Learning is an attempt for geometric unification of a broad class of ML problems from the perspectives of symmetry and invariance. These principles not only underlie the breakthrough performance of convolutional neural networks and the recent success of graph neural networks but also provide a principled way to construct new types of problem-specific inductive biases.

The evolution that serverless computing represents, the economic forces that shape it, why it could fail, and how it might fulfill its potential.

When your application has more demand than can be handled by a single machine or when you want to safe-guard against failure or a single server, you might want to load balance it. There are different patterns to load balance an application, e.g. you can offload the heavy processing through a message queue, or you can redirect traffic directly to different servers. In this tutorial we will look at the latter

Watch and Listen

In this video you will learn about JetBrains TeamCity - a modern and powerful CI/CD platform. First you will see some of the key features and benefits of using TeamCity. We will also see the architecture of how TeamCity actually works and finally I will show you how to setup and configure a Continuous Integration Pipeline in under 15 minutes!

In this episode, we have on Richard Li, who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ambassador Labs, which builds popular open source tools for Kubernetes. Richard explains to us the story behind starting his company and the different projects that were built out of that, including Telepresence and Ambassador API Gateway.

An inside account of the journey Excel has taken as a programming language, including the expansion of data types that has unlocked greater functionality and the release of the LAMBDA function, which makes the Excel formula language Turing-complete. 

A presentation on how companies tend to lose their technological edge and devolve into outsourcing hubs. It touches on why this happens, and how it also applies to whole continents. Finally there are a few suggestions what to do about this.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability.

The easiest way to create a readme quickly and customize all the sections you need for your project's readme.

How I defeated Bob Dishwasher's detergent cartridge DRM to refill it at 1/60 of the cost of buying new.

Jaws is an invisible programming language! Inject invisible code into other languages and files! Created for security research.

A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES.

A simple tool to help apply changes across many GitHub repositories simultaneously.

Image-based poetic programming language.

A Software as a Service Starter Kit, designed to help you build the SAAS of your dreams.

GitHub style split diffs with syntax highlighting in your terminal.

Universal command-line interface for SQL databases.

Browser extension that simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features.

A static analysis tool for shell scripts.

Reactive multidimensional math & data visualization for the web. 

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