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Programmer Weekly (Issue 152 April 27 2023)
Programmer Weekly - Issue 152
Programmer Weekly
Welcome to issue 152 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.
Quote of the Week
"Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code." – Ellen Ullman
Reading List
Kent Beck discusses how the rise of AI is making many of his skills obsolete. He argues that this is an opportunity for software engineers to reskill and focus on the more creative and strategic aspects of their work.
The common thread linking most of these gotchas is scalability. They're things that won't affect you while your database is small. But if one day you want your database not to be small, it pays to think about them in advance. Otherwise they'll came back and bite you later, potentially when it's least convenient.
The article provides a beginner's guide to autonomous agents, which are software programs that can perform tasks on behalf of users without constant supervision. It covers the basics of how autonomous agents work, their applications, and the potential benefits and drawbacks of using them.
The post discusses the importance of leveraging the richness of HTTP status codes to provide meaningful responses to clients. It suggests using specific status codes for different scenarios, such as 201 for successful creation, 400 for bad client requests, and 503 for service unavailable.
A brief story of how we came to use Vitess/Kubernetes to power some of the biggest entertainment franchises on the planet.
The SQL learning game.
AWS Vault is a powerful tool that simplifies the management of AWS credentials for developers and cloud engineers. It solves the problem of plaintext credential exposure and cumbersome token refreshing. You can store encrypted credentials securely and easily switch between profiles. Overall, AWS Vault streamlines the development process, improves security, and ensures compliance with security standards.
Watch and Listen
Large language models have taken the world by storm, but we're still learning what they do and how they work. In this conversation, UC Berkeley Professor & Aqueduct co-founder explains what LLMs do, how they work, and how the space has evolved over recent years.
There are many legitimate arguments to be had about performance, but there are also plain old excuses. It's time to end the excuses.
Books
Databases are not black boxes. Understand them by building your own from scratch! This book contains a walk-through of a minimal persistent database implementation. The implementation is incremental. We start with a B-Tree, then add a new concept with each chapter, and eventually go from a simple KV to a mini relational DB.
Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries
Business intelligence as code: build polished data products with SQL and markdown.
RunCVM (Run Container VM) is an experimental open-source Docker container runtime, for launching standard container workloads - as well as Systemd, Docker - in VMs.
Query your Apple Health data with natural language.
An efficient container runtime that provides cloud-native, all-scenario multiple sandbox container solutions.
The open-source tool for pixel-perfect website migrations.
Iroh takes IPFS beyond the theoretical, to offer developers efficient infrastructure that scales data distribution past 10M devices.
Manage your feature flags and remote configuration declaratively from the comfort of your git workflow.
killport is a command-line utility for killing processes listening on specific ports. It's designed to be simple, fast, and effective.
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