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Welcome to issue 138 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"If you are choosing a JavaScript library purely based on popularity, I think you deserve what you get." - Tom Dale

News

CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI
There was a security breach at CircleCI and so if you use it, be sure to rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI.

Reading List

Horizontally Scaling PostgreSQL
Horizontal scaling is the art and science of distributing data across multiple servers without compromising data integrity, transaction safety and query performance. Read on for a roundup of the features and capabilities of PostgreSQL that you can use to scale out your database deployment.

Backend Developer’s Guide to Monorepos
How to Deal with Large Changes.

Databases in 2022: A Year in Review
Andy Pavlo is back with his analysis of the database world in 2022, including VC funding, blockchains, and Larry Ellison.

What An MLOps Engineer Does
And What The Week Can Look Like.

Which Meetings Should You Kill?
Your company’s most pointless meetings may not be the type you expect!

A look at Unison
Unison is a pure functional programming language that comes with a few revolutionary ideas. Let’s have a closer look.

Image Stacks and iPhone Racks
Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine.

Illustrated Machine Learning
Whether you're just starting out in the field or you're a seasoned professional looking to refresh your knowledge, we hope our illustrations will be a valuable resource on your journey to understanding Machine Learning.

Compiled and Interpreted Languages: Two Ways of Saying Tomato
In this post I'm going to show, using a series of programming language implementations, why languages shouldn't be classified as compiled or interpreted. Before I do that, I need to start by clarifying the difference between a programming language specification and an implementation of that specification

Taking over a Dead IoT Company
5 years after NYCTrainSign collapsed, I investigate why the company failed and end up writing an exploit to take over their fleet.

Platform Engineering as a Startup
A post about how platform teams carry the full responsibilities of an internal startup.

Upgrading Kubernetes - A Practical Guide

Performance of WebAssembly runtimes in 2023

Fake it until you automate it

Docker on MacOS is slow and how to fix it

Watch and Listen

The future of software engineering is powered by AIOps and open source
Hear how Intuit is using AI to help its dev teams ship faster.

Unreal Engine 5 – Full Course for Beginners
Learn how to create games with Unreal Engine 5 in this full course for beginners. This course will give you a solid foundation and will enable you to be able to develop any sort of game in Unreal Engine 5.

Generating video from textual descriptions with Phenaki
How the Brain Team at Google Research developed Phenaki, a model that can generate realistic videos from sequences of text prompts. Watch this video to learn more about Phenaki and how it was created, and watch some interesting results with the authors’ commentary and insights!

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Apex
Apex is an interface definition language (IDL) for modeling software. Generate source code, documentation, integration, everything automatically.

Owl
A toolkit for writing command-line user interfaces.

Gluon
A new framework for creating desktop apps from websites, using system installed browsers and NodeJS.

gist-database
Transform gist into your personal key/value data store.

Dioxus
Dioxus is a portable, performant, and ergonomic framework for building cross-platform user interfaces in Rust.

book-searcher
Create and search books index, create your private library.

rune
Rune is a programming language developed to test ideas for improving security and efficiency.

SketchyBar
A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement.

privaxy
Privaxy is the next generation tracker and advertisement blocker. It blocks ads and trackers by MITMing HTTP(s) traffic.

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