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Quote of the Week

"This is essentially what a program was, a love letter from the programmer to the hardware, full of the intimate details known only to partners in an affair." - Michael Marcotty

News

Call For Code 2022
Use your skills to take on sustainability issues, from improving supply chains to developing clean energy solutions and protection of biodiversity. Start building your solution for the 2022 Call for Code Global Challenge for the chance to win $200,000 USD and receive support to see your solution deployed.

Major cryptography blunder in Java enables “psychic paper” forgeries
A failure to sanity check signatures for division-by-zero flaws makes forgeries easy.

GitHub Desktop 3.0 brings better integration for your pull requests
GitHub Desktop 3.0 brings better integration with your GitHub Pull Requests. You can now receive real time notifications and review the status of your check runs for your pull request.

Reading List

How DALL-E 2 Actually Works
How does OpenAI's groundbreaking DALL-E 2 model actually work? Check out this detailed guide to learn the ins and outs of DALL-E 2.

How Postgres Chooses Which Index To Use For A Query
Learn how the Postgres planner breaks down a query into scans and how this impacts indexing choices.

Web3 Security: Attack Types and Lessons Learned
An overview of the biggest recent crypto hacks – from phishing to governance attacks – to help better understand and improve web3 security.

Improving Git push times through faster server side hooks
The history of pre-receive hooks, how we discovered that the performance was problematic, and how we went about safely replacing them.

How Netflix Content Engineering makes a federated graph searchable
This post describes how our indexing infrastructure moves data for any given subgraph of the Netflix Content federated graph to Elasticsearch and keeps that data in sync with the source of truth. In an upcoming post, we’ll describe how this data can be queried without actually needing to know anything about Elasticsearch.

Working with a non-technical CEO
Succeeding as a senior engineering leader when your CEO “doesn’t get it.”

Designing and testing a highly available Kafka cluster on Kubernetes
In this article, you'll look at Kafka's architecture and how it supports high availability with replicated partitions. Then, you will design a Kafka cluster to achieve high availability using standard Kubernetes resources and see how it tolerates node maintenance and total node failure.

Using Fault Injection Testing to Improve DoorDash Reliability
When failure is inevitable, building fault tolerance with fault injection testing ensures that failures do not bring the platform down with them.

Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22
Slack experienced a major incident on February 22 this year, during which time many users were unable to connect to Slack. This is post mortem of that incident.

Cracking the Docker CLI: How to Grasp Container Management Commands.
The goal of this article is to show how a tiny bit of understanding of the containers' nature can help you master Docker's CLI, starting from the most foundational group of commands - commands to manage containers.

Watch and Listen

Assembly Language Programming with ARM
ARM is becoming an increasingly popular language in the world of computer programming. It is estimated that over 200 billion devices contain an ARM chip, making the ARM language valuable to understand. By understanding an assembly language, programmers can have a better understanding of how code is compiled and run, making it possible to create more efficient programs. In addition to this, programmers can work at a lower level, allowing them to write code that interacts with hardware in an efficient manner.

Moving to Serverless Safely
A chat about the creation of the OWASP Top 10 and how it applies to serverless applications, the shared responsibility model and how serverless goes even further, the current security risks and vulnerabilities, and so much more.

Books

R Graphics Cookbook, 2nd edition
A practical guide that provides more than 150 recipes to help you generate high-quality graphs quickly, without having to comb through all the details of R’s graphing systems. Each recipe tackles a specific problem with a solution you can apply to your own project, and includes a discussion of how and why the recipe works.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

magic-trace
magic-trace collects and displays high-resolution traces of what a process is doing.

xbin
Your serverless cli toolkit.

Cog
An open-source tool that lets you package machine learning models in a standard, production-ready container.

cicd-goat
A deliberately vulnerable CI/CD environment. Learn CI/CD security through multiple challenges.

Redo
Redo is the ultimate tool to create reusable functions from your history in an interactive way.

Replibyte
Replibyte is a powerful tool to seed your databases with real data and other cool features.

Spacedrive
The universal file manager.

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