Programmer Weekly (Issue 60 June 24 2021)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 60

June 24, 2021

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 60 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

"The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim." - Edsger Dijkstra

News

Proof-assistant software handles an abstract concept at the cutting edge of research, revealing a bigger role for software in mathematics. 

Most malware tries to steal stuff. Vigilante, by contrast, takes aim at piracy.

Companies must address the difficulty of hiring and retaining high-skilled employees from an increasingly smaller labor supply.

Epic Games is launching free voice chat and anti-cheat services. It’s part of the Epic Online Services suite, which is available to use across game engines and supports PC, consoles, and phones.

AWS Step Functions allow you to build scalable, distributed applications using state machines. Until today, building workflows on Step Functions required you to learn and understand Amazon State Language (ASL). We are launching Workflow Studio, a low-code visual tool that helps you learn Step Functions through a guided interactive interface and allows you to prototype and build workflows faster.

Reading List

Unix has evolved for almost five decades, shaping modern operating systems, key software technologies, and development practices. Studying the evolution of this remarkable system from an architectural perspective can provide insights on how to manage the growth of large, complex, and long-lived software systems.

A gentle introduction to Apache Kafka.

This article is about how the author found a vulnerability on Apple forgot password endpoint that allowed me to takeover an iCloud account. The vulnerability is completely patched by Apple security team and it no longer works. Apple Security Team rewarded him $18,000 USD as a part of their bounty program but he refused to receive it. 

How to turn 256 bits of entropy into a beautiful, avatar-friendly circular SVG: the Hashvatar.

The goal of this post is to provide an understanding of why SSDs behave the way they do, which can help creating software that is capable of exploiting them. 

Leadership is a loaded word. We attribute a lot to it; we expect a lot from it; we know when we see it, and yet, we don’t have a concise way to describe what it means to be a great leader due to its many facets. In this post, the author summarizes how he views leadership currently, as of June 2021 and describes a few core leadership beliefs that he believes in and behaviors that he lean on and practice. 

Watch and Listen

A chat with Austin Henley, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Prof. Henley has been studying the ways in which developers seek out the information they need to solve problems, debug code, or write new applications.

Thomas Betts speaks with Chris Richardson about minimizing design-time coupling in a microservice architecture. Chris begins by defining design-time coupling, and contrasts it with runtime coupling. We then discuss some of the problems that arise from design-time coupling, anti-patterns and symptoms that are warning signs of high coupling, and the trade-offs that architects need to consider in their designs.

In this video you will learn about the concept of GitOps. What GitOps is, how GitOps works and the benefits of using GitOps in 10 minutes.

Learn some of the most popular sorting algorithms! You will learn selection sort, bubble sort, insertion sort, merge sort, and their order of complexities! 

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Drop any files to any devices on your LAN. No need to use instant messaging for that anymore.

OceanBase is an enterprise distributed relational database with high availability, high performance, horizontal scalability, and compatibility with SQL standards.

A high-performance HTTP benchmarking tool with real-time web UI and terminal displaying.

A simple generic code generation tool.

Make JSON greppable!

Automatic Linux privesc via exploitation of low-hanging fruit e.g. gtfobins, polkit, docker socket.

PocketLang is a small, fast and friendly language for scripting and embedding.

A React Component library for buliding modern applications easily & quickly. 

Devtron is an open source software delivery workflow for kubernetes.

Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests.

Upcoming Events 

Prisma Day is two day event of talks and workshops by members of the Prisma community, on modern application development and databases. 

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