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Programmer Weekly (Issue 145 March 2 2023)
Programmer Weekly - Issue 145
Programmer Weekly
Welcome to issue 145 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.
Quote of the Week
"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language." - Larry Wall
News
LLaMA-13B reportedly outperforms ChatGPT-like tech despite being 10x smaller.
Reading List
As part of this paper, we will look into the decisions that led to a scalable database as a service. The primary bottleneck that Aurora tries to solve for is the network as they believe it is a primary constraint for a global scale database. The crux of the solution they implement lies in pushing the redo processing to storage layer. This solution results in scaling not just for normal database operations but also helps in quicker recovery from failures.
Classes teach you all about advanced topics within CS, from operating systems to machine learning, but there’s one critical subject that’s rarely covered, and is instead left to students to figure out on their own: proficiency with their tools. We’ll teach you how to master the command-line, use a powerful text editor, use fancy features of version control systems, and much more!
Keeping billions of items up to date requires a reliable write-heavy inventory platform. Learn how we built this system with Cockroach DB.
Many programming "best practices" taught today are performance disasters waiting to happen.
Technical Takeaways from Building an Animated Image Carousel on The New York Times iOS Core News App
An in-depth look at how an animated image carousel was built to expose users to the breadth of NYT content.
Engineers at Cloudflare have written a replacement in Rust for one of the oldest and least-well understood parts of the Cloudflare infrastructure, cf-html, which is an NGINX module. In doing so we learned a lot about how NGINX works, and paved the way for the Front Line team at Cloudflare to move away from NGINX entirely.
This article illustrates how Grab’s real-time data platform team secured GitOps pipelines at scale with our in-house GitOps implementation.
A smart mirror project is a rite of passage for many makers. With new low-voltage and ultra-slim displays, it's a great time to give it a try.
An introduction to database cryptography.
Watch and Listen
Brian Rinaldi joins us to talk about the state of Jamstack in 2023, acronym confusion, SPA confusion, developing common tools of understanding, why Netlify bought Gatsby, and the state of developer conferences.
If you can think of it, someone's done it in the DNS.
In this machine learning course, you will learn how to build AlphaZero from scratch. AlphaZero is a game-playing algorithm that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to learn how to play board games at a superhuman level.
Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries
A library for creating huge Sqlite indexes at breakneck speeds.
Easy and secure paper backups of secrets.
Mobile UI components made with Tailwind CSS.
An open-source, self-hosted memo hub with knowledge management and social networking.
Real-time events for Postgres.
Open source customer notifications in less than 5 minutes.
A no-framework, no-dependencies, customizable, animate-able, SVG-based HTML element.
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