Programmer Weekly (Issue 74 September 30 2021)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 74

September 30, 2021

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 74 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

"Never trust a programmer in a suit." - Anonymous

News

A security researcher has published details about three iOS zero-day vulnerabilities, claiming that Apple has failed to patch the issues, which they first reported to the company earlier this year.

The new Google Cloud Deploy managed services makes it easier to do continuous delivery to Google Kubernetes Engine, and soon, Anthos.

This program grants Azure credits to open source projects for a year. Developers will be able to use these credits for testing, storage, or other development. Any project in any technology with an Open Source Initiative (OSI)-approved license is eligible to apply.

Reading List

In this article, we'll train the car to do self-parking using a genetic algorithm.

Learn how we made bracket pair colorization in Visual Studio Code up to 10,000 times faster.

The cost of improvement is becoming unsustainable.

A survey of how tech projects run across the industry highlights Scrum being absent from Big Tech. Why is this, and are there takeaways others should take note of?

This btrfs filesystem overview highlights some longstanding shortcomings.

Building a development environment with the shell as a keystone offers multiple benefits. You can use tools that fit nicely with each other, you can customize everything depending on your own needs, and the biggest of all, you can control your entire development environment with your keyboard. This can save a lot of cognitive energy as well as deliver a pleasant user experience. 

How Nubank switched to a Contract and Acceptance testing strategy to scale to over 1k engineers.

A collection of codebase onboarding stories from real developers.

How to prevent email spoofing on your domain, using an unholy combination of silly standards.

Watch and Listen

A chat with Jonas Bonér about stateful serverless with Akka Serverless, the use cases that stateless serverless opens up, why reactive principles are important for distributed applications, and what future abstractions will mean for infrastructure.

Charles Humble talks to Sam Newman about the 2nd edition of his book Building Microservices. They discuss information hiding, ubiquitous language, UI decomposition, and team structure.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

A productivity tool to boost your browser workflow!

An nginx playground website where you can just paste in an nginx config and test it out. 

A shell by the beach!

Relocate resource intensive third-party scripts off of the main thread and into a web worker.

A monitor of resources.

Amazon Genomics CLI reduces the time for scientists and developers to start running existing genomics workflows at scale and speed up iteration cycles as they develop new ones.

An open-source version of KubeMQ, the Kubernetes native message broker.

A library for creating byte level data structures. 

GitOops is a tool to help attackers and defenders identify lateral movement and privilege escalation paths in GitHub organizations by abusing CI/CD pipelines and GitHub access controls.

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