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Welcome to issue 116 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson

Reading List

The many flavors of hashing
A post about the many types of hash functions, their use-cases, dos and don'ts, with suggestions for currently accepted algorithms.

When Microservices Are a Bad Idea
You shouldn't start a new project with microservices, even if you're sure your application will be big enough to make it worthwhile.

Write better docs with a product thinking mindset
I’ve frequently seen product thinking discussed in product management and user experience design contexts, but haven’t seen it applied to technical writing and documentation. And yet, by applying product thinking to documentation, we can write more useful, relevant, high quality documentation.

Differentiable Programming from Scratch
Differentiable programming has been a hot research topic over the past few years, and not only due to the popularity of machine learning libraries like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and JAX. Many fields apart from machine learning are also finding differentiable programming to be a useful tool for solving many kinds of optimization problems. In computer graphics, differentiable rendering, differentiable physics, and neural representations are all poised to be important tools going forward.

Build your own web framework
Build your own web framework that deploys to edge and serverless infrastructure.

Getting Started With Ephemeral Containers
If you’re following the latest news on Kubernetes, you probably would have heard about Ephemeral Containers. Not sure? Fear not! In this blog post we will try to shed some light on this new feature soon to be stable in Kubernetes v1.25.

Pricing at Lyft
This post discusses the rideshare pricing system architectural design, modeling approaches and potential future iterations of Lyft’s pricing engine to illustrate how we tackle price optimization to achieve Lyft’s long-term mission.

Watch and Listen

InfoQ AI, ML and Data Engineering Trends Report 2022
There have been a lot of innovations and developments in the AI and ML space since last year. In this podcast, InfoQ’s AI, ML and Data Engineering editorial team discusses the latest trends that our readers should find interesting to learn and apply in their own organizations when these trends become mainstream technologies.

PHP 101 for Absolute Beginners
This course is a complete beginner's guide to learn the syntax, variables, functions, classes, PHP OOP & more. Created in 2022 and based on the newest version, PHP 8!

JavaScript Game Development Course for Beginners
Learn to make 2D games with HTML, CSS & plain vanilla JavaScript, no frameworks and no libraries!

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

FauxPilot
An attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot. It uses the SalesForce CodeGen models inside of NVIDIA's Triton Inference Server with the FasterTransformer backend.

HypeScript
A simplified implementation of TypeScript's type system written in TypeScript's type system.

speedbump
TCP proxy for simulating variable, yet predictable network latency.

gum
A tool for glamorous shell scripts.

KubeZoo
A lightweight kubernetes multi-tenancy gateway.

pls
`pls` is a prettier and powerful `ls` for the pros.

Lyra
Fast, in-memory, typo-tolerant, full-text search engine written in TypeScript.

sqlite-zstd
Transparent dictionary-based row-level compression for SQLite.

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