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Welcome to issue 119 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay

News

How Google Cloud blocked the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack at 46 million rps
By anticipating a DDOS attack, a Google Cloud customer was able to stop it before it took down their site. They just weren’t expecting it to be the biggest known Layer 7 DDOS attack so far, at 46 million rps.

Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational AWK code
A Princeton professor, finding a little time for himself in the summer academic lull, emailed an old friend a couple months ago. Brian Kernighan said hello, asked how their US visit was going, and dropped off hundreds of lines of code that could add Unicode support for AWK, the text-parsing tool he helped create for Unix at Bell Labs in 1977.

Devs don’t want to do ops
Developers are straining under the demands of ‘You build it, you run it,’ and operators are feeling more pressure too. Is it time for development and operations to be separated once again?

Reading List

How to deal with money in software
Dealing with money in software is difficult and dangerous. This post contains an overview of the problems you will run into eventually when writing software that deals with money. It describes potential representations, relevant trade-offs, and recommends ways of correctly implementing common operations.

Webhooks.fyi
Learn the most popular approaches for building, securing, and operating webhooks, with recommendations for webhook providers and consumers.

Reducing duplicate code in our applications using HATEOAS
In this post I will show you that all of our web apps still contain lots of duplicate code that constantly slow us down. You just don’t realize it (yet!). And I will show you how this can be solved with the power of HATEOAS!

Turning SQLite into a distributed database
mvSQLite is the open-source, SQLite-compatible distributed database. We decoupled SQLite's storage layer onto FoundationDB to offer massive yet "bottomless" scalability, point-in-time reads, and the strictest level of consistency.

Build Your Own Mobile Proxy for Web Scraping
In this guide, we show how you can build your own mobile proxy pool step by step. The most common use case for mobile proxies is web scraping. If you have low success rate and keep getting blocked by websites you want to scrape, this guide is for you.

How The New York Times Uses Machine Learning To Make Its Paywall Smarter
When The New York Times paywall launched, its meter count was the same for all users. Since then, The Times has transformed into a data-driven digital company, and its paywall is now successfully using a causal machine learning model called the Dynamic Meter to set personalized meter limits, making for a smarter paywall.

How to Build a GPT-3 for Science
A GPT-3-like AI model for science would accelerate innovation and improve reproducibility. Creating it will require us to unlock research.

Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond

The Product Culture Shift

How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low Latency

Watch and Listen

Frontend Web Development Bootcamp Course
In this massive course, you will go from no coding experience to having the essential skills of a frontend web developer. You will learn various web development technologies and create a few projects along the way.

Chaos engineering with Litmus
Learn the chaos engineering concepts, cloud native chaos engineering and explain how Litmus can be used to create and run in your Kubernetes clusters.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

novu
The open-source notifications infrastructure. A fully-featured microservice to send SMS, E-mail, Slack and Push notifications.

npp_msvc_ide
Turn your Notepad++ into powerful Visual Studio replacement!

SurrealDB
A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web.

Renovate
Automated dependency updates. Multi-platform and multi-language.

Libraries.io
Helps you find new open source packages, modules and frameworks and keep track of ones you depend upon.

Crawlee
A web scraping and browser automation library.

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